The story was published on Chandamama as a series, appearing first in the May issue of the year 1997. It belonged to an era where every single piece of fiction was riveting - full of kings, queens, princesses, evil tantriks, royal astrologers, predictions of doom, the entire lot. You get the picture.
I was living in a town where the only accessible reads were academic text-books; I grew up with my grandparents, and they belonged to the clan who thought kids who didn't read Chandamama growing up would grow up into unspeakable adults. In all fairness, I loved the little book. I literally pined for the 4th of every month, waiting hungrily for the mailman to deliver my copy.
To cut a long story short, The Virago of Veerpuri mysteriously stopped after a few episodes, just when the story was at its most interesting. To this day, it remains like that grain of sand in my eye, that seed stuck in my tooth, that thorn in my foot - I just can't let go. I keep remembering it from time to time, and wonder how the story might have unraveled.
Ah well, wouldn't bode well for me to get nostalgic again, so here goes - all you Chandamama fans, you can go through the archives of the book by going here. And for you old-timers who did follow the story, and know what happened to it - Yours truly is waiting to hear it.
nicely put......if i could add to the nostalgia myself, i remember reading a lot of tinkle digest and chacha choudhry ....the best part about these books were the simplicity of the written English...no matter wat happens these books will remain special.....and also i remember all the old cartoons i used to watch on CN.....dayyam man they have all vanished and i will never forgive CN for that.....Swat kats, Johny quest....to name a few..
ReplyDelete@Andy - True what you said, Chacha Choudhary, Tinkle, et al were like a whole other world then, we used to get lost in them so much! I doubt if today's kids have even heard of em. Sad for them, isnt it!!! Btw, I think there's some website where you can download these really old episodes of stuff - I am not sure about the URL, will ping you later on Gtalk. Hope they have your favorite toons, dude! :-)
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