MAKING HER DEBUT
Indian author Nirupama Subramanian's Keep the Change is about a young girl from Chennai who lands in Mumbai to fulfill her dreams. The uncoolness of her name plagues B. Damayanthi, along with her dead-end accountancy job and all the unsuitable prospective husbands her family throws at her. When she finally jettisons her job and some of her inhibitions to join a bank in Mumbai, her mother's parting words are: 'Be good. Don't do anything silly.' (Translation: 'Stay away from sex and alcohol!') Soon Damayanthi is negotiating big-city life. Aided by dubious words of wisdom from the cherub-faced Jimmy, she must impress the intellectual C.G., who has a low opinion of her; battle Sonya Sood, flatmate and size-zero sophisticate, for the TV remote; choose between resisting or giving in to temptation in the form of the seductive Rahul; and deal with the moral dilemma of stealing a million-dollar idea for her project. Can a good girl have a really good time?