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“My father said: ‘What do you want to do? Come, I will teach you drawing’,” she says, adding, “So I started very late in my life.” She began practising, drawing lines, circles and ovals, and kept at it everyday. Working at a career in accounts, at the age of 28, she decided she wanted a change. “I was in my teens, growing up in Mumbai, and I enjoyed the stories because the English was simple and easy to read,” she says. Tinkle ’s iconic characters, including Suppandi, Nasruddin Hodja and Pyarelal.)
(A legendary illustrator, Waeerkar drew many of Tinkle in the mail, Archana Amberkar was lucky enough to watch her father Waeerkar bring these characters to life at home. While most fans grew up waiting for their edition of All of us goof up, and both kids and adults know that we have all had that Suppandi moment. “It’s his utter simplicity: he is what he is. My thinking even now is like him - as my logic is literal,” she laughs. But I do remember that I could immediately relate to him. Tinkle and following Suppandi’s adventures. “In fact, my first memories of him is from a story where he was trying to roast slippers like aĬhappati ,” giggles Rajani, discussing how she too grew up reading Originally illustrated by the artist Ram Waeerkar, the character began life as a guileless village simpleton, who worked as a domestic helper and earnestly tried to follow orders from his boss, with inevitable disastrous results. Tinkle comics’ most popular characters, and has managed to retain his sprightly, ageless appeal over decades. Originally conceptualised as a village simpleton in 1983, Suppandi quickly became one of Asked about Suppandi finally approaching the big Four O, a startled Rajani Thindiath, Editor-in-Chief ofĪmar Chitra Katha, firmly states, “Suppandi doesn’t age.” Though the popular comic character celebrates turning 37 years on April 20, he technically will always be in his 20s. Suppandi gets to have his birthday cake, and eat it too.
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