BTT #4 : Amar Chitra Katha No.2 : Cinderella(সিন্ডেরেলা)

 Amar Chitra Katha(ACK) was meant to be a series of graphical narration of the original Indian stories,ranging from true epics to mythology etc. But at the beginning the publisher IBH and the main person behind this series,Anant Pai, opt for some western fairy-tales for the first 10 issues in the period of 1967-69.But soon after they revised the series with true Indian stories - which was the original aim - and hence we got regular ACK issues from No.11 since 1969 and they reprinted each issue for numerous times and still they are doing the same under a new series with new numbering system!But all those initial 10 issues were cancelled back then on 1969 and never reprinted and hence those issues are very tough to come by in these days! Although story-wise no grown-up reader will miss those,still old-book lovers will go for any issue published under the banner they loved,like ACK, irrespective of the content.Here nostalgia factor matters the most...
 I have only 2 issues among those ten, No.2(Cinderella) & No.4(Aladin) and I'm not very eagerly looking for the rest 8 titles.You might be surprised to hear that the Bengali translation of  সিন্ডেরেলা was done by famous poet-cum-writer Premendra Mitra as mentioned in the inside-cover!

 According to the wiki and this nice ACK site, these 10 issues were never printed in English and hence Eng ACKs were started from No.11(Krishna) only(check the ACK-List with the 1st publication year).

 Here is the advertisement-page of the first 10 titles and the choice of languages...

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