One Afternoon by Roma Bansal

Fiery, naive and unconventional, eighteen-year-old Ria Rathore has strutted through life with confidence and unconcern, providing the occasional scandal for the conservative city of Ahmedabad. Ria has always got what she wanted, until she crosses paths with Radha Chatterjee, her English professor at Spencer College. A free-spirited intellectual, Radha Chatterjee pays no attention to Ria or her wiles. Captivated by her enigmatic professor, Ria loses interest in her friends and college until her life is changed in the course of a single afternoon. As she begins to travel a hitherto untrodden path, Ria experiences the love, heartbreak and realization that accompany the often painful journey to womanhood.