Miss New India

Miss New India is Bharati Mukherjee's eighth novel. It was published in 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Miss New India is "the third part of a trilogy that began with Desirable Daughters (2002) and The Tree Bride (2004)."

Plot
Anjali Bose, a young woman, escapes to Bangalore from her stifled existence in the backward and provincial state of Bihar in India. In Bangalore she experiences the newly exploding wealth and growth of the city. She obtains employment in a call center and finds herself surrounded by entrepreneurs and fortunes. Along the way, she overcomes hardships and obstacles to ultimately reinvent herself. The title and the story are a metaphor for the new India that is prosperously emerging on the world stage. The title and story also allude to the old India and the new.