 Between 1995 and 2020, the special issues of Sandesh have become popular.In December 1995, the special issue "Feluda 30" (to commemorate thirty years of publication of the first-ever Feluda story in Sandesh) was extremely popular, that issue had to be printed a second time to meet the demand.In 2003, The Ford Foundation gave a grant of rupees 22 lakhs to "Sandesh" to make the magazine viable.