Here's another fairytale story from Mumbai involving Skype.

AR Rahman, composer of music from "Slumdog Millionaire," used Skype to write an English language version of his Academy Award-winning song, "Jai Ho" (Hindi for "Be Victorious")

Now a professor, whose work inspired the movie, is looking for grannies to tell fairytales to the kids in the Mumbai slums over Skype. The idea is to help the children learn English and to improve their pronunciation.

The Sun in the UK headlined this as "Slumdog Prof Has Gran Idea."

Sugata Mitra, an educational tech prof at Newcastle University, wants to bring teachers into remote schools in India using Skype.

He wants British grannies to use Skype to read fairytales to kids in the Indian slums.

Prof. Mitra said: "When I last visited India, I asked the children what they would like to use Skype for most, and surprisingly they said they wanted British grandmothers to read them fairy tales. They even worked out that between them they could afford to pay £1 a week out of their own money."

The Sun said he has already recruited a British woman to spend a few hours a week reading to the children and set up webcams so that a life-size image of the storyteller is projected on to a wall in India.

Mitra has recruited 100 women as storytellers, but he wants to find more. He can be contacted at sugata.mitra@newcastle.ac.uk

The phrase "carrying coal to Newcastle" means a pointless activity since there already was coal there. But Mitra's idea is more like diamonds from Newcastle for the kids from the slums.