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...fact he is one, and has been for 15 years) than a best-selling author (which he has been for the past four). The success of his first book, Five Point Someone, a campus novel following three best friends at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, took him by surprise. "I didn't have the baggage of other Indian authors," he says. "I just wanted to write a fun book...
...books produced by this generation are "not about partition, or the Emergency, or three-generational family sagas written in Oxford English," says New Delhi literary agent Renuka Chatterjee. Instead, the topics are populist and contemporary (college, finding a job, looking for love) and the English is as unpretentious as a call-center cubicle. At the same time, these novels still do what novels have always done: serve as guides in a confusing world. "Suddenly, everything has changed so much," says novelist and publisher Namita Gokhale. "So people use these books to try to find where they're located...
...book nor others that followed are feminist treatises, however. In fact, fictional heroines usually end up in love, if not wedlock. But the mere fact that the books raise gender-related issues makes them valuable. "There are a huge number of anxieties floating around young women," says the New Delhi publisher Gokhale. "It's very reassuring to read a funny and well-written novel in which you can see your own problems reflected...
...with reporting by Madhur Singh / New Delhi...
...government since 1979. (See here for a TIME Archive story on the origins of Assam's troubles.) Its often violent campaign for a sovereign Assam began in earnest in 1990. The group seeks an end to what it has called "colonial rule" by the central government in New Delhi and the expulsion of non-Assamese, particularly Hindi-speakers, from the state. ULFA has denied responsibility for the blasts...