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Riva Razdan's Arzu is a remarkable approach in many ways. A coming of age story brilliantly blended with an important part of Indian economic history. When India itself was growing up and opened the door for new growth with the world, stepped outside its boundaries and started rubbing shoulders with world trends, changing trade law brought fresh new winds which changed a lot of things, it changed Arzu's view to see life. I feel Arzu hypothetically becomes the face of India who just came across the threshold of a new age, a new beginning happened to both of them, India unlocked the deadbolt of the business law, and drastic changes happened in women's life, it brings new perspectives. It's that time when women started thinking about life beyond marriage, started preparing for a career rather than preparing for being a perfect marriage material. However, Arzu wasn't like this, Arzu's plans were different and she didn't know that life could be different from her bua and other women. But unfortunately Arzu's plans thrashed, a storm wipes out her eastman colour dreams. It is 1991, and India's economy is opening up to foreign investment for the very first time. For wealthy business families across the country, however, it is a move fraught with uncertainty. In Bombay, Arzu, the pampered daughter of a newspaper mogul, finds the situation particularly tense. Her one concern is to score a proposal from her millionaire boyfriend. Then, an innocent gesture on her part causes all her plans to go awry, and Arzu escapes to New York City with her snobby aunt Parul on the pretext of attending finishing school. In the journey Arzu met with some girls who showed her new face of independence. Arzu got a chance to see life from a very new window. While Parul Bua's one-point agenda is to fix her up with a suitable match, Arzu, revelling in the heady independence that New York offers, finds herself poised on the brink of an idea that could change the nature of an entire industry back home. And she started thinking from her own personal perspective which is very different from Parul Bua's teachings. Your last coming of age novel? (Arzu, Riva Razdan, Coming of Age Novel)

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