Word: bagchi
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...existed," says the agent Chatterjee. She describes them as "college and high school students, the under-25s, whom we all liked to believe would rather buy a pizza or go disco-dancing than spend money on a book." But they will buy books relevant to their own lives. Amitabha Bagchi, author of another IIT novel, Above Average, says young Indians want to read about themselves "not entirely as an act of narcissism but also as part of a process of adapting to, and learning to live in, a social milieu that is evolving faster than most people can comprehend...
...Changing notions of gender are a part of that. "The so-called techie lit or business-school books will all take you through a series of different notions of what it means to be a man in India," Bagchi says. Male protagonists struggle with a world that challenges them to break free of their parents' expectations: Will they be dutiful sons and find good jobs, or will they indulge in idealism and take risks? In one passage in Above Average, the character Arindam experiences an epiphany while playing in a band: "That first roll to the end of the song...