This May we have a new series for you — Pranav’s Dadi, tales about a very special lady. We also have the second instalment of our SuperWeirdos series Thwacks. The wacky quotient continues with At the Dentists’ and the Sea Diaries story Letting Go, and for those who love the classics, we have Painting the Fence in Famous Scenes from Literature. To round it off, we have an interesting interview with former Indian hockey captain, Viren Rasquinha. Enjoy!

Fun, fun and more fun. This issue has more pages, more Tinkle Toons and loads of exciting features. After all we celebrate both the Tinkle Anniversary and Children’s Day on November 14! So, the theme for the issue is 3-bute. We pay 3-bute to the iconic writers and artists of Tinkle with get-to-know features on Subba Rao, Luis Fernandes, Ram Waeerkar, VB Halbe, Pradeep Sathe and Dev Nadkarni. What’s more? Each feature is accompanied by a story from our Classics! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and a Sherlock Holmes ComiClassic feature in our 3-bute to famous authors. What better 3-bute to our beloved readers than a Fan Fiction story? And finally, we have a 3-bute to Tinkle Toons. With an All-Toon issue, we have nearly all characters featuring in this issue, whether through individual stories or mash-ups. So, there’s Suppandi in his new avatar of Super Suppandi, Shikari Shambu, Dental Diaries, Ina Mina Mynah Mo, SuperWeirdoes, Tantri the Mantri... need we go on? Not to be left behind are a Spotlight on one of Tinkle’s founders Subba Rao, Things You Didn’t Know About the Tinkle Team, and to wrap it all up, a sweet incident from Uncle Pai’s life. Oh, did we forget the FREE Tinkle Toon book labels inside the issue? Enjoy!

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

A study of the Saudi Arabian monarchy’s efforts to construct and disseminate a historical narrative to legitimize its rule. The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. With this book, Rosie Bsheer explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca. The elites’ project was rife with ironies: in Riyadh, they employed world-renowned experts to fashion an imagined history, while at the same time in Mecca they were overseeing the obliteration of a thousand-year-old topography and its replacement with commercial megaprojects. Archive Wars shows how the Saudi state’s response to the challenges of the Gulf War served to historicize a national space, territorialize a national history, and ultimately refract both through new modes of capital accumulation. Praise for Archive Wars “An instant classic. With incredible insight, creativity, and courage, Rosie Bsheer peels away the political and institutional barriers that have so long mystified others seeking to understand Saudi Arabia. Bsheer tells us remarkable new things about the exercise and meaning of power in today’s Saudi Arabia.” —Toby Jones, Rutgers University, author of Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia “There are now two distinct eras in the writing of Saudi Arabian history: before Rosie Bsheer’s Archive Wars and after.” —Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania, author of Oilcraft “Archive Wars explores with conceptual brilliance and historical aplomb the various forms of historical erasure central not just to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia but to all modern states. In a finely-grained analysis, Rosie Bsheer rethinks the significance of archives, historicism, capital accumulation, and the remaking of the built environment. A must-read for all historians concerned with the materiality of modern state formation.” —Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis, author of The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt

From its early days as a radio pioneer to its current status as a major media conglomerate, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) has been at the forefront of American broadcasting. This book provides a comprehensive history of NBC, examining its role in shaping American culture and informing public opinion over the past century. A must-read for anyone interested in media history or the power of the press. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.