Target (magazine) facts for kids

Target was a popular Indian children's magazine that was published monthly in English from 1979 to 1995. It featured a mix of reader contributions, stories from regular writers, do-it-yourself articles and several popular comic strips.

Content

Target's outstanding production values as well as the quality of cartoonists and writers on its editorial board made it stand out from other contemporary Indian children's magazines like Tinkle, Champak and Chandamama.

A popular feature in Target was pages with information on international pen friends. In the age before email revolutionised communication, having pen friends was a popular hobby, both for the purpose of knowing about the world at large, and collecting stamps from foreign countries.

Some of the popular comic strips published in Target were:

• Gardhab Das by Jayanto and Neelabh
• Detective Moochhwala and Funny World by Ajit Ninan
• Granny's Gupshup by Praloy Chakrovorty and Joygopal Podder and others
• It Happened in History written by Renuka Narayanan and illustrated by Suddhasattwa Basu.
• Science News illustrated by Priya Nagarajan and others

Contributors

Writers

• Dilip Salvi
• Sigrun Srivastava
• Ruskin Bond
• Geeta Dharmarajan
• Jacquelyn Singh
• Joygopal Podder
• Mala Marwaha (author and illustrator)
• Margaret Bhatty
• Meera Govil
• Meera Uberoi
• Paro Anand
• Ramaa Isvaran
• Renuka Narayanan
• Roopa Pai
• Rupa Gupta
• Subhadra Sengupta
• Swapna Dutta
• Vijaya Ghosh (Associate Editor)
• Viswajita Das
• Vatsala Kaul (Associate Editor)

Illustrators

• Ajit Ninan (made the Funny World and All in Fun cartoon pages)
• Jayanto Banerjee
• Neelabh Banerjee
• Suddhasattwa Basu (creator of India's first animated cartoon series, Gayab Aya)
• Praloy Chakrovorty
• Sujata Singh
• Manjula Padmanabhan (author and illustrator)
• Priya Nagarajan
• Atanu Roy (illustrated the "HA! HA!" jokes page)