Information Madness

Chandamama, one of the most popular Indian magazine for kids has launched its website in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. Chandamama, the 61-year old children’s magazine has been recently aquired by the Mumbai based Geodesic. Geodesic is the company which has launched popular universal instant messaging system Mundu and Mobile Radio (MunduRadio).

The Tamil and Hindi sites contain original stories written for the Tamil and Hindi publications, and in many cases these are different from the stories you will find on the English and Telugu sites. These regional portals are not "translated" version of the english versions but are independent of each other.

One thing I noticed is that when you change the language from English to Hindi, Tamil or Telugu, You don't get an option to change the language back to English.

Chandamama is also planning to launch its websites in Marathi and Oriya languages soon. Here is Chandamama Hindi, Chandamama Tamil and Chandama Telugu here.