Where do some of literature's famous characters go shopping?
Maharani Gayatri Devi did it at three
Too much of it killed Madame Bovary
It shook Harriet Beecher to the core
And couldn’t save Dorian’s scabrous soul
Big Brother declared it a crime
But Mumbai’s pirates think it fine
For Harry Potter it proved prophetic
Wordsworth thought it catastrophic
China’s nouveau riche love it though
As do Carrie Bradshaw & Co.
Who Let the Kids Out?
Big Brother Hates Shopping
(This story appears in the Sept-Oct 2014 issue of ForbesLife India. To visit our Archives, click here.)