Indian literature in English

**hdw** · 04-Mar-2010, 20:04

India looks set to become the biggest market in the world for English-language fiction -

Mills and Boon answer call of India's new middle class for English novels | Books | guardian.co.uk

**Igu Soni** · 07-Mar-2010, 11:05

Right after the name "P J Wodehouse", we find:

One booming area is local Indian "chick lit", said Priyanka Malhotra,

Interesting piece of trivia: some literature student was advised to di her Ph.D. on Indchicklit.

**hdw** · 07-Mar-2010, 14:17

I see you're reading Alice .... Are you planning to go and see the Tim Burton film? I'm curious about it myself, but it's had pretty poor reviews. Mind you, I don't take reviews too seriously as they usually just display the reviewers' prejudices. Like, people who hate fantasy and mythology shouldn't review Tolkien or Harry Potter films.

Harry

**Igu Soni** · 07-Mar-2010, 15:56

Originally Posted by hdw

I see you're reading Alice .... Are you planning to go and see the Tim Burton film? I'm curious about it myself, but it's had pretty poor reviews. Mind you, I don't take reviews too seriously as they usually just display the reviewers' prejudices. Like, people who hate fantasy and mythology shouldn't review Tolkien or Harry Potter films.

Harry

Then don't let me review a Tim Burton film; he strikes me as a joker trying to be hip by being dark (except in Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd, which I thought had much more feeling in them than stuff like Edward Scissorhands). I just ended up with it because the friend who had it is rather excited about the movie, and I need to catch up on these classics anyway. I'm much more excited about watching the 10 minute 1903 short over at The Auteurs.