India, Nov. 10 -- Such happiness to join a party cheering for Jane Austen.

The coming December marks the novelist's 250th birth anniversary. As a buildup to the auspicious occasion, the English literature students of Delhi University's Aryabhatta College have assembled this afternoon in the college's. oh well, one wants to call this hall a ballroom, but ballrooms belong to Jane Austen's rural England, where rich men and handsome women fall in love over dance, gossip, and piano forte. This hall is simply called Student's Activity Center. The consolation is that many students present here happen to be reading Jane Austen, that too for the first time; her novel Pride and Prejudice being a part of their syllabus. But can a long-dead writer o...