01557 a2200229 4500 OSt 20260721133843.0 250228b ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d 9780143454595 0 VYA Vyas, Satya Author Banaras talkies India : Ebury Press, 2022. 207p. Bhagwandas Hostel at Banaras Hindu University can be mistaken as being like any other college hostel, but that would be a gross error. For, among the corridors of BD Hostel roam never-before-seen characters: Suraj the narrator, whose goal is to woo a girl, any girl; Anurag De, for whom cricket is life, literally, and Jaivardhan, whose melancholia gets him to answer every query with 'ghanta'. Follow the adventures of the three friends and others as they navigate undergraduate life in one of India's most vibrant colleges, plan to steal exam papers, struggle to speak to women, find friends in corridors lined with dirty linen, and forge lifelong bonds amid bad mess food. First published in Hindi in 2015, Banaras Talkies has remained on the bestseller list since then. A slice-of-life novel, it captures college life with all its twists and turns. Written with the idiomatic flourish that is the hallmark of Banarasi colloquialism, this comic novel is one of India's great coming-of-age novels. College students--Fiction Youth hostels--Fiction Novel Agarwal, Himadri translator BK ddc 49053 49053 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN RN38 2025-02-21 48 179.55 6 2 891.433 VYA 38242 2026-10-12 00:00:00 2026-07-28 250.00 2025-02-21 BK Recommended by CHHAVI JAIN (DPM/15/06/F)