Retrospective 2020

On January 1, we launched the logo, the mascot, and the theme music of The Children's Post of India.

The Children's Post Mascot, Logo, and Music - YouTube 

The mascot has been made by Amey Haldankar. He is a middle school student in Nagothane. 

The logo has been designed and neatly drawn by Aashi Pujara, who is in junior school in Ankleshwar. 

The music has been made by a 19 year old composer from Secunderabad. 

This is a list of places from where we have got emails/letters from children in 2020: 

Thalassery, Tirupati, Tenkasi, Tohana, Amravathinagar, Azara, Kagithapuram, Pekhubela, Varadharajapuram, Rajkot, Kaithal, Joshimath, Parowal, Nagothane, Una, Ulwe, Udupi,  Nanded, Dhanau, Kudal, Vardha, Solapur, Solan, Vishakhapatnam, Boregaon, Kolhapur, Ubarni, Nadurbar, Hinjilicut, Keonjhar, Sangnai, Madhopur, Bhimavaram, Ajmer, Avinashi, Arakkonam, Barnala, Jaitaran, Kair village, Madhopur, Salav, Guwahati, Palani, Patiala, Vadodara, Ukkunagaram, Surat, Shantipuram, Kuppam, Trichy, Nagole, Kollam, Attapur, Chabua, Palani, Ankleshwar, Tohana, Vijayapura

From March to May 2020, as the country, and specially families, struggled with lockdowns, the entire editorial team of TCP worked double hours, adding excellent family challenges to the paper, so that families have something to do together, and the morale of the children remains high. 

As the lockdown progressed, the number of emails grew. The entire team again came together to ensure that all children get a one on one response to their emails. 

When www.tcponline.in was launched as an online platform for children to talk to each other, we realised what it was going to mean to children battling loneliness. It did. The children on the platform include my reticent son, who has found friends he can laugh with. 

So, as we complete 2020 at The Children's Post of India, I am grateful for: 

• Being able to create happiness in the lives of all our children every single day. 
• Being a part of a team that inspires with its professional excellence and its love. 
• Getting an email ever so often from a place that one has to look up on Google maps, and finding out about all the lovely places our readers come from (the first chai bagan in Assam, a tiny port town in Kerala, a hilltop mountain in Tamil Nadu, A tiny hamlet in Himachal, an industrial township in Andhra, another temple town from Gujarat, and so on)