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	Anita Desai - MSN Encarta
		Anita Desai, born in 1937, Indian novelist who is known for her colorful and touching studies of Indian life.
		Desai's work is characterized by its gentleness and empathy with its often poignant and amusing characters, struggling to achieve their personal dreams in a complicated and unsympathetic world.
		Desai was born Anita Mazumdar in Mussoorie, a hill station near Dehra Dūn in northern India, to a German mother and a Bengali father.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761581089/Anita_Desai.html (388 words)

	Anita Desai
		Anita Desai (originally Anita Mazumdar) was born to a German mother and an Indian father in Mussoorie, India, in 1937.
		Anita Desai’s novels are mostly take place in a big city middle-class environment and focus on people, who, after the end of colonial rule, are trying to establish their lives anew or live in a world that is no longer stable.
		Desai also frequently plays with the perspective of the social outsider or the foreigner to expose Western stereotypes about India; this is the case in “Baumgartner’s Bombay", the story of a Jewish imigrant family, and in “Journey to Ithaca"(1995).
	www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_232.html (389 words)

	Anita Desai
		Anita Desai was born in Mussoorie, a hill station north of Delhi, as the daughter of a D.N. Mazumdar, a Bengali businessman, and the former Toni Nime, of German origin.
		Desai was educated in Delhi at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School and Miranda House, Delhi University, where she received in 1957 a B.A. in English literature.
		Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /desai.htm (1208 words)

	A passage from India \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		First published in the early 60s, Desai is widely praised as the finest of her generation of Indian writers in English, and one of few who had an international reputation, alongside RK Narayan, before the post-Rushdie wave of the 80s and 90s.
		Desai's "earliest, freshest impressions" of the America that struck her, in a neat reversal, as "exotic and bizarre" are there in her new novel, Fasting, Feasting.
		Desai was taken to task for a 1990 essay in the Times Literary Supplement entitled A Secret Connivance, in which she claimed Indian women connived at their captivity by aspiring to the mythic role models of subservient Hindu goddesses that "keep her bemused, bound hand and foot".
	www.guardian.co.uk /booker/Story/0,2763,201690,00.html (3827 words)

	Anita Desai--A Critical Biography
		Anita Desai was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father.
		Desai considers Clear Light of Day, her most autobiographical book, because she was writing about her neighborhood in Delhi, although the characters are not based on her brothers and sisters.
		While Desai has taught for years at Mount Holyoke and MIT, and spends most of the year outside of India, she does not consider herself part of the Indian Diaspora.
	www.haverford.edu /engl/engl277b/Contexts/anita_desai.htm (584 words)

	Anita Desai
		Anita Desai lives in the United States, where she is the John E. Burchard Professor of Writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
		Desai probably derived this point of view from her German mother, whom she aptly describes as carrying 'a European core in her which protested against certain Indian things, which always maintained its independence and its separateness.' Her oeuvre has explored the lives of outsiders within Indian society and, more recently, also within the West.
		As Desai herself admits, her novels are not populated by heroic characters, whether male or female, at least in the traditional sense.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth124 (1159 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Several of Desai's novels explore with Chekhovian sensibility tensions inside family, unable ness to share feelings, disillusionment, and the alienation of middle-class women torn between the needs of self and the demands by the tumultuously changing Indian society.
		Desai present different and mostly neurotic ways of escape from the dull everyday life or violent world outside social walls.
		Desai has been a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/desai_anita.html (906 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fasting, Feasting: Books: Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Desai's counterpointing of India and America is a little forced, but her focus on the daily round, whether in the Ganges or in New England, finely delineates the unspoken dramas in both cultures.
		Anita Desai's marvelous command of language transforms, with tender irony and a light sense of humor, these otherwise gloomy lives into delightful characters despite their fragility.
		Desai certainly has her own merits as a writer and her own opinions as a viewer of the world, but her effort comes out a little uneven and undisciplined.
	www.amazon.ca /Fasting-Feasting-Anita-Desai/dp/0701168943 (1855 words)

	India - Women - Woman In Clear Light Of Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anita Desai is, in many ways, the grand dame of Indian writing in English although she never achieved the iconic status of her latter-day counterparts.
		Anita Desai was born in 1937 in Mussoorie of a German mother and a Bengali father.
		Desai’s work stands in a league of its own and she can more than hold her own against those beautiful, young one-book-wonders who walk away with all the glory and all the headlines.
	www3.estart.com /india/women/anita.html (831 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Hardtalk \| Anita Desai -- a life in literature
		Anita Desai was one of the pioneering "post-colonial" Indian writers.
		Anita Desai said that there was no literary scene in India as such when she started out.
		Anita Desai had to combine her literary experiments with being a mother in a traditional Indian household.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/4196231.stm (656 words)

	The Zigzag Way by Anita Desai: Reviews
		Desai has a shrewd, spot on and, at times, unforgiving understanding of human dynamics, and she draws from an impressive wellspring of knowledge.
		Desai, whose novels are usually set in her native India, brilliantly re-creates an atmosphere, a scene, an instant in time, but not just the superficial dazzle of a crowded bazaar, or the outward meaning of a conversation in a hotel bedroom.
		If it falls short of Desai’s finest novels with their masterly anatomising of a society and the tender yet forensic skill with which she examined her characters, The Zigzag Way still offers Desai followers her poised, immaculate prose, keen eye and skill at pinpointing a character or a mood.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/desaianita/zigzagway (536 words)

	Desai, Anita Criticism and Essays
		As a contemporary Indian female author, Desai has been identified with a new literary tradition of Indian writing in English, which is stylistically different and less conservative than colonial Indian literature and concerns such issues as hybridity, shifting identity, and “imaginary homelands,” a phrase coined by Indian novelist Salman Rushdie.
		Desai was born on June 24, 1937, at Mussoorie, a hill station north of Delhi, India, to D. Mazumdar, a Bengali business executive, and Toni Nime, a German expatriate.
		Although she regularly wrote short stories since adolescence, Desai officially launched her career as a novelist in 1963 with the British publication of Cry, the Peacock, which was subsequently followed by Voices in the City (1965) and Bye-Bye, Blackbird (1968).
	www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/desai-anita (2010 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Desai, Anita
		Desai received a BA in English Literature and graduated with honors from the University of Delhi.
		Desai is part of a new literary tradition of Indian writing in English which dates back only to the '30s or '40s.
		Desai is praised for her broad understanding on intellectual issues, and for her ability to portray her country so vividly with the way the eastern and western cultures have blended there.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/desai_anita.html (1246 words)

	Loneliness in Diasporic Life as Depicted by Anita Desai
		Desai has dealt with a group of diasporic Indians in Britain of the late 1960s in her novel Bye-Bye Blackbird (1969); she has also dealt with the character of a migrant Austrian Jew in India in her novel Baumgartner’s Bombay (1988).
		Anita Desai’s fictions are generally existentialist studies of individuals and hence background, politicality, historicity, social settings, class, cross-cultural pluralities are all only incidental.
		The solitude that Desai depicts in her diasporic characters is a result of the inner psyche of the characters as also their external circumstances.
	www.cerebration.org /amitshankarsaha.html (3055 words)

	Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anita Desai was born in 1937, in Mussoorie, India; her father was Bengali and mother German.
		Anita Desai is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London and she has been a member of the Advisory Board for English of the National Academy of Letters in Delhi and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
		Anita Desai; a study of her fiction, by Meena Belliappa.
	www.iit.edu /~jainank/reading/db/desai/desai.html (462 words)

	Anita_Desai_The_Zigzag_Way
		Anita Desai is back with her magical prose.
		Desai won the Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature for Fire on the Mountain, her fifth novel.
		Cry, the Peacock was hailed by London's Daily Telegraph as "a poetry-novel, from a highly original, intense and perceptive artiste." Desai, however, has refrained from commenting on the novel as it belonged to a period of her life when she was still growing up and had not yet broken free of restraints.
	www.the-south-asian.com /Oct2004/anita_desai_the_zigzag_way.htm (1113 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| FASTING, FEASTING by Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anita Desai's new book, hailed as "unsparing, yet tender and funny,"* brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers.
		"Anita Desai's latest novel is a poignant, penetrating look at the travails of the eldest daughter and the only son of a strict couple in a provincial Indian town.
		Desai, who teaches writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tells the story with lapidary prose, creating intimate scenes as detailed as Indian miniature paintings.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/fasting_feasting.asp (917 words)

	A Brief Biography of Anita Desai
		Anita Desai was born June 24, 1937 in India to a German mother and an Indian father.
		Desai's work is part of a new style of writing to come out of India which is not nearly as conservative as Indian writing has been in the past.
		Desai grew up during World War II and could see the anxiety her German mother was experiencing about the situation and her family in Germany.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /india/desai/desaibio.html (244 words)

	Sidney Harman Writer-In-Residence: Anita Desai
		Desai, who is teaching a workshop on fiction writing as part of her tenure as a Visiting Professor, was raised in Delhi by German and Bengali parents.
		A groundbreaking female novelist in the country of her birth, Desai’s work has been praised for her depiction of the interior lives of women.
		Desai attended the University of Delhi, and speaks English, German and Hindi fluently.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /news/anitadesai.html (273 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fasting, Feasting: Books: Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Anita Desai, through her short stories and novels, two of which, Clear Light of Day and In Custody, have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is one of the most accomplished and admired chroniclers of middle-class India.
		Anita Desai is an excellent story teller in the old-fashioned sense of the word.
		While Desai paints sharp contrasts between the worlds of India and the US what unites the two parts of the book is the disfunctional family.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fasting-Feasting-Anita-Desai/dp/0099289636 (1363 words)

	Anita Desai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anita Desai (June 24, 1937 -) is an Indian novelist and the John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities, Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Her daughter, the author Kiran Desai, is the winner of the 2006 Booker prize.
		A large collection of Anita Desai's papers is housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anita_Desai (375 words)

	Amazon.com: Fasting, Feasting: Books: Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
		Desai shows the challenges a single woman faces regardless of how successful she is. By contrast, Uma's cousin is portrayed as the ultimate success because she is able to marry well thanks to her looks.
		Anita Desai has been celebrated by some for her ear for dialogue, but she gets it all wrong here.
	www.amazon.com /Fasting-Feasting-Anita-Desai/dp/0618065822 (2620 words)

	Amazon.ca: In Custody-Pb: Books: Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She retains an unforced and powerful ease in conveying the colour and sounds and sensations of Indian life.” – TLS --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
		I feel that Desai truly captured the feeling of a bygone time (which was bygone already in the story).
		Although Desai's In Custody is well written and intelligent, it is tedious and dull.
	www.amazon.ca /Custody-Pb-Anita-Desai/dp/0749394110 (767 words)

	DNA - World - Anita Desai 'overjoyed' at daughter's Booker win - Daily News & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		NEW DELHI: Novelist and three-time Booker nominee Anita Desai said she was overjoyed that her daughter Kiran had won the Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss.
		After her Booker win on Tuesday, Kiran Desai thanked her mother profusely, describing her as almost a co-author of her book about the difficulties of life in post-colonial India and as an illegal immigrant.
		Anita Desai, who has been a Booker Prize nominee three times but never won the award, was not present at the ceremony in England.
	www.dnaindia.com /report.asp?NewsID=1058128 (344 words)

	"Fasting, Feasting" by Anita Desai - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A nita Desai is a wonderfully subtle writer who achieves her powerful and poignant effects by stealth rather than by direct action.
		She opens her story with a busy domestic scene, as the parents -- who have such a fused authority that they are often referred to simply as MamaPapa -- fussily ask whether daughter Uma has given orders to the cook and prepared a package for son Arun, who is studying in America.
		In beautifully detailed prose Desai draws the foods and textures of an Indian small town and of an American suburb.
	dir.salon.com /books/review/2000/02/17/desai/index.html (624 words)

	Anita Desai - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Anita Desai - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Other perspectives reinvigorating English fiction in the late 20th century came from novelists born outside England; some of these novels looked at...
		Desai, Morarji Ranchhodji (1896-1995), Indian statesman, who spearheaded the drive to unseat Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and succeeded her as...
	encarta.msn.com /Anita_Desai.html (93 words)

	Desai Anita - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Desai, Anita (1937- ), Indian novelist writing in English, known for her colourful and touching studies of Indian life.
		Born in London, Brookner was educated at King's College London, of which she was made...
		Lonsbrough, Anita (1941- ), British swimmer who won individual gold medals in Commonwealth, European, and Olympic championships.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Desai_Anita.html (89 words)

	Amazon.de: Clear Light of Day: English Books: Anita Desai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Bim's presence, Tara once again feels "herself shrink into that small miserable wretch of 20 years ago, both admiring and resenting her tall striding sister", while "Bim was calmly unaware of any of her sister's agonies, past or present".
		With language that describes both the harshness and beauty of family and the land, Anita Desai takes the reader with Tara and Bim on their struggle to confront and heal old wounds.
		Anita Desai's, "Clear Light of Day," was assigned to me by my college professor.
	www.amazon.de /Clear-Light-Day-Anita-Desai/dp/0618074511 (1020 words)

	Anita Desai, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Spring 2003, Baruch College
		Anita Desai, the distinguished fiction writer, is the Spring 2003 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.
		Desai is a graduate of Miranda House, University of Delhi, and is fluent in English, German, and Hindi.
		Anita Desai interviewed by students in Professor Eva Chou’s Contemporary Asian Literature course, English 3950 (Topics in Literature), Spring 2003.
	www.baruch.cuny.edu /wsas/harman/desai.html (450 words)

	SAWNET: Bookshelf: Anita Desai
		Anita herself did not visit until she was an adult.
		Desai paints a subtle, miniaturist portratit of twentieth-century Mexico as experienced by a young American man. A newly minted historian, Eric has come to Mexico as a first-time traveler.
		With vivid sympathy and telling detail, Desai conjures Eric's grandparents and the poignant story of a young English girl whose grave is in a cemetery on a Mexican hillside.
	www.sawnet.org /books/authors.php?Desai+Anita (452 words)

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