The cover of Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan’s novel, Cold Feet, carries a blurb: ‘India’s answer to Bridget Jones’. I had absolutely no idea who Bridget Jones was until I turned to Google (who else) for help. Apparently, she is a fictional character, appearing first in a London newspaper column and later in a novel and movie, a thirtysomething single woman ‘who tries to make sense of life and love’.