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...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...
...about what they say are the distasteful remarks by the region?s Inspector General of Police, Gurdarshan Singh, who said that "Dr Rajesh Talwar killed Aarushi when she objected to his extramarital affair, though he was as characterless as his daughter." The country's minister of women's welfare, Renuka Chowdhury, has castigated the police for casting aspersions on Aarushi's character while the investigation has yet to be completed...
Over the past few years, Singh has handed over much of the day-to-day running of DLF to his son Rajiv, 48, who studied engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Daughter Pia, 36, a Wharton economics graduate, runs the retail business. Older sister Renuka handles some international business. Singh says he plans to slowly step away from DLF to concentrate on his golf (handicap: 14), collect more art (DLF owns one of the biggest private collections in the country) and travel (he is the honorary consul general of Monaco and vacations in London...
...right-hand man Montek Singh Ahluwalia acknowledged last November that the government "has been contributing less than required" to preserve India's heritage. Last month the Ministry of Culture announced plans for a National Heritage Sites Commission with judicial powers to take charge of monument preservation. And Tourism Minister Renuka Chowdhury has vowed to clean up India's 26 World Heritage Sites and exploit their business potential so that they pay for themselves. Tourism Joint Secretary Amitabh Kant is perhaps the only person in India more outspoken than Thakur about heritage. "Encroachments have been terrible," he says. "Upkeep is awful...
...girls as young as 12 are recruited in Bombay and other cities; many are devadasis, "slaves of god," a distorted legacy of a 7th century religious practice in which girls were dedicated to temples for lives of dance and prayer. Today the girls pledge fealty to the goddess Renuka at puberty and then -- with the full knowledge of their parents -- are shunted off to brothels...