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NEW DELHI: Delhi University ’s literature students will have to study Chetan Bhagat ’s ‘Five Point Someone’ from the academic session that begins in July.

Bhagat’s novel will be part of a syllabus that would include American poet and novelist Louisa M Alcott’s ‘Little Women’, English crime fiction ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ by Agatha Christie and the popular British author JK Rowling’s ‘ Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’.

These books will be included in the popular fiction paper in the general elective, offered to second-year undergraduate students pursuing honours and programme courses under the choice-based credit system (CBCS).

This system was introduced by the university two years ago, where students were allowed to study elective subjects from different streams.

These recommendations will now be placed before the academic council and executive council for approval, before being implemented in the new session.

On hearing the news of his book’s inclusion in the syllabus, the novelist took to Twitter and said that he was “honored”.

