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{{Infobox magazine
| title = Balabhumi
| logo = Balabhumi Logo.jpg
| logo_size = 200px
| image_file = Balabhumi Cover.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Cover of a ''Balabhumi'' issue
| editor = P. V. Chandran
| editor_title = Managing Editor
| previous_editor =
| staff_writer =
| photographer =
| category = [[Comic book|Comic magazine]]
| frequency = [[Weekly newspaper|Weekly]]
| circulation =
| publisher = P. V. Nidhish
| founder =
| founded = 1996
| firstdate = 
| company = [[Mathrubhumi|Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company Limited]]
| country = [[India]]
| based = [[Kozhikode]], [[Kerala]]
| language = [[Malayalam]]
| website = https://www.mathrubhumi.com/kids/
| issn =
| oclc =
}}

'''''Balabhumi''''' ([[Malayalam]]: ''ബാലഭൂമി'') is a [[Malayalam]] [[comic book|comic magazine]] published by [[Mathrubhumi|Mathrubhumi Publications]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Gopalakrishnan |first=R. |date=2021 |title=When Our Hearts Leapt Up |url=https://prd.kerala.gov.in/sites/default/files/inline-files/Kerala%20Calling%20NOV%20LR.pdf |journal=Kerala Calling |publisher=Information & Public Relations Department, Government of Kerala |volume=42 |pages=40}}</ref> It was launched in April, 1996 by the [[Calicut]]-based Malayalam newspaper [[Mathrubhumi]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mathrubhumi |url=http://www.exchange4media.com/resources/premium.asp?agencyid=2821&catid=1 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035106/http://www.exchange4media.com/resources/premium.asp?agencyid=2821&catid=1 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |access-date=25 May 2013 |website=Exchange4Media}}</ref> The magazine became a weekly in May 1996.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=25 April 2020 |title=Balabhumi Enters 25th Year with More Innovative Content |url=https://english.mathrubhumi.com/features/books/balabhumi-enters-25th-year-with-more-innovative-content-1.4715767 |access-date= |website=Mathrubhumi Daily |language=}}</ref>

Along with comics (in-house and syndicated), the content includes fables and fairytales, rhymes, (translated) [[literary classics]], and various puzzles. It is the first Malayalam comic magazine to syndicate [[Disney comics|Disney Comics]].

== Stories and articles ==
* Magic Malu<ref name=":0" /> (artist: M. Mohandas) story of a magician rabbit who helps everybody facing any problem.
* E-Man<ref name=":0" /> (Unnikrishnan kidangoor, Jingle bell creations) : The only Action Hero of Balabhumi.
* Meeshamarjaran<ref name=":0" /> (Vallicode santhosh, Devaprakash) : Story of two best friends but will fall in a trap in the end.
* Kunchoos :(Unnikrishnan kidangoor, Jingle bell creations) One of the naughtiest boy in Balabhumi.
* Mallanunniyum Villanunniyum:<ref name=":0" />(Unnikrishnan kidangoor, Jingle bell creations) Story of two brothers one (Villanunni) is intelligent but not strong another (Mallanunni) is strong but not intelligent.
* Master Tintu:<ref name=":0" /> Story of a naughty boy who says super jokes.
* Boli : Story of a girl who is naughty.
* Vikru & Durbalan:<ref name=":0" />(Unnikrishnan Kidangoor, Jingle bell creations ) Story of a little bear got friendly with a lion named Durbalan.
* Gira

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Comics publications]]
[[Category:Malayalam comics]]
[[Category:Magazines published in India]]
[[Category:Malayalam-language magazines]]
[[Category:Children's magazines published in India]]

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