Mills and Boon answer call of India's new middle class for English novels
Guardian Wednesday 3rd March, 2010
Book lovers browsing at the Delhi Book Fair in New Delhi last September. Photograph: Mail Today/India Today Group/Getty Images In among the slightly decrepit halls and the rubbish strewn grass of Ne...
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