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Value for No Money
Publication: Indian Express
Date: July 30, 2000
Pitara.com is among the best Indian kids and parenting site on the net. It exhibits the primary virtue of a children's site: it never talks down to its audience.
 Pitara follows a familiar pattern -story, poem, folklores and DYK (Did You Know?), but its content is commendably sophisticated and part of the learning process. Gandhi's life is told as a story. History, geography and sacred culture inform a story about two children's journey to Gomukh. The Irula tribe of Tamil Nadu, traditionally associated with snakes, is also explored in story form.
Reading recommendations come from none other than Majula Padmanabhan. Nothing very new in the list -Caroll, Kenneth Graham, E. B. White, Frank Baum, Tolkien, Blyton, Nesbit, Montgomery, Burroughs. But then, how many children can get to know all these names from their parents and peers alone?
Pitara is published from New Delhi and should be on the bookmarks list of parents who want their children to value reading.
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