ACKs for my schools; A wish
My youngest remembrance of Amar Chitra Katha comics is that of reading them at the Thrissur Public Library as a lower primary kid. My father used to take me to the Public Library at Town Hall, Thrissur on Sundays. And mother, on certain Saturdays. While they searched for books to be taken home, I would sit and read ACKs and Tinkle Digests in the children's section. Even though I never bought any ACK comics as a child, I've always had a chance to read them as I wished. Time flew by, I grew up and never bothered to read ACKs and Tinkles anymore until recently when there generated in me, a nostalgia for these comics. It started with 'liking' the facebook page of the Amar Chitra Katha Studio . I also happened to win one of the crossword competitions that was held on the facebook page and was gifted with two ACK titles. Starting from the creator Anant Pai selling the first of the comics on the streets to...