Campus Novel India

Campus novel India
The Week

There have been many bestsellers this year, including Anuja Chauhan's The Zoya Factor which blends India's two obsessions, cricket and romance and Karan Bajaj's Keep Off The Grass, a campus novel that has been bought by the producers of The Dark Knight for a film. The rather disappointing, but much-hyped Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan's You Are Here did well and even the bare-it-all Anita Jain's Marrying Anita sold in large numbers.

Thrillers, chick-lit, campus novels and children's fiction and non-fiction are now being experimented within India. They are available at an unbeatable price of a little over a multiplex movie ticket. "It has been a year of big books," says a spokesperson for Om Book Shop, Delhi. "It has been a particularly good year for Indian authors." Mohammed Hanif with his A Case of the Exploding Mangoes and established authors like Jhumpa Lahiri created an alternate world and characters that live on.