India, Nov. 24 -- He's handsome and rich, and full of pride. She's intelligent and not rich, and full of prejudice. Much misunderstandings follow before they unite in matrimony. The man is Fitzwilliam Darcy. The woman is. oh well, first meet another woman. She says, "I hate Darcy." Gulnaaz is a Delhi University (DU) student.

Dear readers, we may not harbour such intense sentiments for this Darcy, but he certainly is more intimate to thousands of DU students. Darcy happens to be the hero of Pride and Prejudice. The novel is in the university's first-year English Literature curriculum. It was written by the great Jane Austen of England-the coming December marks her 250th birth anniversary. Pride is universally acknowledged to be Jane Auste...