Krishna Leela followed by Jataka Tales and Geeta were my first Amar Chitra Katha through which I was introduced to the world of books and reading. I read Krishna Leela when I was just 5 years old and started understanding books. These books resulted in the fertile thought process and admiration of the cultural richness of our country. Though these are comics but through very beautiful illustrations and apt dialogues, they sketch the complete tale that takes you into its own world.
Uncle Pie is the best story teller we ever had. His books are not read just by the kids but by the people of every age group. Amar Chitra Katha was incepted to bring the Indians close to their culture. It surely succeeded in doing so but yet there seems to be few things that the Publication should look into. Many of the series is available just in English while the national language is Hindi. Mahabharat Set is available just in English. The Hindi Mahabharat set is available but in two parts each costing round about 2000 Rs. The single English Set is available for 1100 Rs. only. I wanted to gift these books to one of my uncles who was not very comfortable reading English but I couldn’t find the same even at the Chaupati.com, their marketing website. It seems discriminating. Several other volumes like Tinkle Digest etc is also available just in English.
It is not like we don’t like reading English tales but our culture should also be available in the languages of our country in the same rates as the English ones.