She felt like India, a mysterious country thousands of years old. Books could be written about her, but under all the written text and the coats of paint, deep inside her womb was something no one had yet grasped. This was why the Moghuls and the English, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, Coke and Pepsi, Star TV, everyone came, conquered, camped. The front cover of the novel includes an intriguing comment: "If Lolita had grown up in India, she might have debuted in a novel like this." I probably would not compare Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita to this novel quite so freely. The former is a classic written from the perspective of an older man, while Babyji is, in my opinion, popular fiction written from the highly subjective perspective of a precocious teenage girl. But let's not be too strict with the boundaries... :) Babyji tells the story of Anamika, a student living and studying in Delhi. The distinctly Indian novel relates her experiences of growing up an