• Anita Desai FRSL, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts...
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    of 20 "most influential" global Indian women. Kiran Desai is the daughter of novelist Anita Desai. Kiran was born in Delhi, then spent the early years...
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  • business Anita Desai – Author; mother of author Kiran Desai Bhairavi Desai – American labor union leader Bindu Desai – Actress C. D. Desai – Banker and...
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  • Clear Light of Day (category Novels by Anita Desai)
    published in 1980 by Indian novelist and three-time Booker Prize finalist Anita Desai. Set primarily in Old Delhi, the story describes the tensions in a post-partition...
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  • In Custody (novel) (category Novels by Anita Desai)
    Custody (1984) is a novel set in Delhi, India by Indian American writer Anita Desai. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984. Deven earns a living...
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  • directed by Ismail Merchant, with screenplay by Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain. It is based upon Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel In Custody....
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    Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler...
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  • critical reception...The three I have never forgotten were written by Anita Desai in the Washington Post, by Clark Blaise in the New York Times and by...
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    Top Indian designer Anita Dongre known for never using showstoppers in her runway shows, for the first time in August 2012 asked Desai to close the show...
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  • flamenco dancer and singer Anita Desai (born 1937), Indian novelist and academic Anita Diamant (born 1951), American writer Anita Dobson (born 1949), British...
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    Shivani Desai (born 13 February 1986), professionally known as Rashami Desai, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi television. She is...
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  • Fasting, Feasting (category Novels by Anita Desai)
    Anita Desai, first published in 1999 in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for fiction in 1999. Anita Desai's novel...
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  • Artist of Disappearance is a collection of novellas by Indian writer Anita Desai. It was published in the UK by Chatto & Windus in 2011, and was a finalist...
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    England in semi-exile making a contribution to post-colonial literature. Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, Aamer Hussein and Kamila Shamsie have acknowledged her...
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro David Mitchell William Trevor 4 nominations Julian Barnes Anita Desai Penelope Fitzgerald Howard Jacobson Thomas Keneally Hilary Mantel Ali...
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  • favourably reviewed by novelists including Amitav Ghosh, A S Byatt, Anita Desai and Patrick Flanery. Critics praised the novel's intricate and detailed...
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    Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler...
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  • The Village by the Sea (category Novels by Anita Desai)
    Indian family story is a novel for young people by the Indian writer Anita Desai, published in London by Heinemann in 1982. It is based on the poverty...
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  • Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel: Genre and Ideology in R. K. Narayan, Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya and Salman Rushdie (University Park, PA: Penn State...
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  • Bhabananda Deka Nalini Prava Deka Syed Muhammad Miyan Deobandi Anita Desai Kiran Desai Purushottam Laxman Deshpande Abdul Qavi Desnavi Venu V. Desom Mukul...
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    Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler...
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    weekend resort in 1920 and is also referred to in one of the novels by Anita Desai. Pankaj Mishra is a writer/poet who lives in Mashobra. Amit Khanna, film...
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    Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler...
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    Feminist Perspectives in the Novels of Toni Morrison, Michèle Roberts, and Anita Desai. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. p. 21. ISBN 978-81-269-0629-1. Archived...
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    Uttarakhand View of Dehradun from Mussoorie at Night Ruskin Bond Tom Alter Anita Desai Saira Banu Jamila Gavin Stephen Alter Nayantara Sahgal Martha Chen Victor...
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    Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler...
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    Mrityunjay Athreya Padmanabhan Balaram Dalveer Bhandari Ruskin Bond Anita Desai Pullela Gopichand Kamal Haasan Jyeshtharaj Joshi V. N. Kaul Neelam Kler...
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  • version is listened to by a character in the novel Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai and this angers another character. 1993: Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's character...
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    Natasha Hassanandani (born 14 April 1981), professionally known as Anita Hassanandani, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Hindi television...
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    1972, the following year, he reunited with Sharmila Tagore for Manmohan Desai's romantic drama Aa Gale Lag Jaa. The film emerged as one of the highest...
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