New Delhi, Sep 13 - Her new book spotlights the high life of Delhi 'that is still trying to come to terms with Western values'. Writer Ira Trivedi says 'The Great Indian Love Story' is based on what she has seen in today's India.

'The experiences of the cast in my book - Serena, her mother, father, stepfather and boyfriends - were those I had seen happening to my friends and their friends,' Trivedi told IANS in an interview.

She is the author of the best-selling book 'What Would You Do To Save the World: Confessions of a Could-Have-Been Beauty Queen'.

A graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusettsand with an MBA degree from Columbia Business School, she was working on another book, 'Intern', when she was suddenly bored and wanted to write from home in India, she said.

'I left 'Intern' halfway after I returned because Delhi had changed. I hadn't really spent a lot of time in India , but I saw a side of the city that gripped me and wanted to write about it.'

Her latest work, 'The Great Indian Love Story', has just been published and is yet to be launched.

Trivedi feels that changes in lifestyle in the capital have taken place because 'the economy has opened up, there is more money to spend.'

In our childhood, we just had the Doordarshan. But now MTV and BBC have changed the way youngsters look at life. There is a whole lot of pop culture in the country,' she said.

'My brother is 10 and he is growing up differently. I think there is a huge gap between my parents and my generation, and between my grandparents' generation and my parents' generation.

'That's why as writers we respond to the divides between generations. It is also interesting to see how immigrants' children grow up outside the country and adjust to changes when they return,' Trivedi said.

The novel also brings out the menace of drug addiction in the capital and paints a gruesome picture.