New Delhi, Dec. 22 -- Sophie Kinsella's untimely death last week reminded me of a time when I devoured several of her books in a row. Although her Shopaholic series is the most popular, I was thinking of a stand-alone novel called Twenties Girl published in 2009. An unpretentious romp, the book is about a 20-something woman visited by the ghost of her great-aunt who tasks her with finding a long-lost necklace, the search for which unearths family secrets and, of course, leads to personal growth for the protagonist. Rifling through the book again, an unexpected connection with a Bengali novel (and its film adaptation) struck me: Goynar Baksho, a novella by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and adapted by Aparna Sen, is also about two women from diff...