Anandamela

Anandamela

Anandamela Sharadiya 2002 front cover
Editor	Paulami Sengupta
Former editors	Ashoke Kumar Sarkar, Nirendranath Chakravarty, Debasish Bandyopadhyay
Frequency	Fortnightly
Publisher	ABP Limited
First issue	March 1975
Country	India
Based in	Kolkata
Language	Bengali
Website	www.anandamela.in

Anandamela, Anondamela, or Anonodomela (Bengali: আনন্দমেলা) is a children's periodical in the Bengali language published by ABP Limited (Ananda Bazar Patrika Group) from Kolkata, India. Also, with the Sunday issue of Ananda Bazar Patrika, the Bengali, daily newspaper, a colourful page is distributed free of cost, which is named Anandamela.

The first issue of Anandamela appeared in March 1975. The magazine is published on a fortnightly basis. It has been edited by several eminent personalities at different times including the poet Nirendranath Chakravarty,Ashok Kumar Sarkar, and Debasish Bandopadhyay. The present editor is Paulami Sengupta. Anandamela is one of the oldest surviving Bengali children's magazines and is published twice a month, on the second and twentieth days.

Many authors started writing for children through Anandamela; for example, author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay was noticed as a children's author after writing Manojder Adbhut Baari, which was published in Anandamela as a serial novel. On 19 June 2004, Anandamela split up into two different magazines, the original Anandamela (for children age 8 – 14), and Unish Kuri, (for teens and young adults age 15 – 25). Both the magazines are edited by the same editor and editorial team.

Anandamela is popular for short stories, ghost stories, novels (most often, thrillers) and original comics. In the past, Anandamela had, for over 25 years, published The Adventures of Tintin comics in the Bengali language, making it the only magazine in India to have ever published Tintin in any of the Indian languages. The publication of Tintin was started in 1975.Tintin was translated into Bengali by the editor of the magazine, Nirendranath Chakraborty.Anandamela is trusted by parents for study-material and examination tips and has a section called "Tomader Pata", where it publishes drawings and anecdotes written by children/readers. The following are the regular features: