The Babu decided to find out whether it really does end happily ever after for fairy tale and other kidlit characters on the web. Red Riding Hood is a site for children's book writers--but be careful, the big bad wolf pops up in the form of an ad asking whether you'd like to reset your home page to www.munky.com (what big teeth it has, grandmama!). Goldilocks is the number one bakeshop in the Philippines; Mother Goose sells kidstuff, as does Humpty Dumpty. But the Little Red Hen offers country music, and Jack Horner'll be back as soon as he redesigns his communications website. Peter Pan offers everything from hot new Latin music videos to wellness videos; the Sleeping Beauty is in the Internet consultancy business and somewhat appropriately, has been dormant for over three years now. Pollyanna's perennial optimism remains a driver in her apparently thriving designer business, Thumbelina has been quite cleverly adopted by a needlework company, Rumpelstiltskin is coming soon and you don't get to find out what Cinderella's up to unless you're over the age of 18 and into the really crude hardcore stuff.
- Does M Scott Peck live up to the precepts he preac...
- "If American reflects the principles Wal-Mart has ...
- We give away our gender with every line we write: ...
- A S Byatt recently dissected the Harry Potter seri...
- * "I have been asked if reading all this science w...
- No more Mother Teresa Institute of Management. The...
- Rock stars, stature stars, department stars, sunse...
- Vikram Seth is a coconut. Mid-day certainly didn't...
- Jerusalem's new mayor slugs it out with Arthur Mil...
- "You’ve talked about a pretend book, but you haven...
- Amardeep Singh
- Amitava Kumar
- Anecdotal Evidence
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Arts Journal
- Books Inq
- Bookdwarf
- Bookninja
- Bookslut
- Beatrice
- Chekhov's Mistress
- Confessions of An Idiosyncratic Mind
- The Elegant Variation
- Falstaff
- Galleycat
- Golden Rule Jones
- Grumpy Old Bookman
- Identity Theory
- Indian Writing
- Jabberwock
- Language Hat
- The Literary Dick
- The Literary Saloon
- The Little Professor
- Maud Newton
- Michael Berube
- Miss Snark
- Moby Lives
- Moorish Girl
- The Mumpsimus
- Old Hag
- Outside of a Dog
- Pepys' Diary
- Prufrock's Page
- Rake's Progress
- Reading Experience
- Return of the Reluctant
- Slushpile
- Tingle Alley
- Abraham Verghese
- Amit Chaudhuri
- Amitav Ghosh
- Amitava Kumar
- Anita Desai
- Anita Rau Badami
- Anjana Appachana
- Arundhati Roy
- Chitra Divakaruni
- Dinesh D'Souza
- Githa Hariharan
- Fareed Zakaria
- Hanif Kureishi
- Hari Kunzru
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Mahasweta Devi
- Manil Suri
- Manjula Padmanabhan
- Meera Syal
- Neil Gaiman
- Nirad C Chaudhuri
- Rana Dasgupta
- Rohinton Mistry
- Romesh Gunesekara
- Ruchir Joshi
- Rudyard Kipling
- Salman Rushdie
- Samit Basu
- Sarnath Banerjee
- Shashi Deshpande
- Shashi Tharoor
- Sujata Massey
- Suketu Mehta
- Sunetra Gupta
- Taslima Nasrin
- Thrity Umrigar
- Ved Mehta
- Vikram Chandra
- Vikram Seth
- V S Naipaul
- William Dalyrmple
- 3:AM Magazine
- All Book Lists
- Another Subcontinent
- Biblio
- Caferati
- DesiLit Daily
- India-Poetry International Web
- Good Reports
- Katha
- The Little Magazine
- Literary Magazine Stand
- Oxford University Press (India)
- New India Foundation
- Penguin India
- Rain Taxi
- Roli Books
- South Asian Journalists Association
- Sasialit--Mailing List
- Sarai
- Sawnet
- Scholars Without Borders
- Seminar
- Vernacular Body
- Waterboro Library Blog
- Writing Cave
- Zubaan





