India, May 7 -- This year the world is celebrating her 250th birth anniversary. But Jane Austen was from cold, wet England. What is this writer to us in hot, dry Delhi? This afternoon, in Delhi University's St Stephen's College, the gracious Dr Karen Gabriel, head of the Department of English, condescends(!) to give us gyan on Jane Austen. (The classroom in the photo bears a framed portrait of H.W.. Padley, the principal who founded the college's Shakespeare Society) According to you, Jane Austen is.? . a safe writer. She walks the balance between conserving the orthodoxy and pushing boundaries very well. Her six novels are about young women manoeuvring the links between marriage and money and freedom. for, you must agree, some part of wome...