Anita desai

Anita Desai, the grand dame of Indian English literature, was born in Mussorie on 24 June 1937, of a Bengali father and a German mother. This identity of her plays a significant role in the portrayal of characters in most of her novels especially Bye, Bye Blackbird as it presents the cultural crises suffered by her main characters due to the East-West encounters. This novel is considered to be most intimately connected to her own experience as she herself has mentioned in an interview thus, “…of

‘Games at twilight’ is a short story written by Anita Desai. The story is about a young boy called Ravi who plays hide and seek with his brothers and sisters in a very hot summer day. He wants to win the game so that he can have all the glory of beating his relatives. He hides in a very dark shed and he waits for the right moment to get out, touch the ‘den’ and eventually win the game. I believe that the last part of the story is the most important because the writer presents the innocence of a child

appearances of formerly subjugated people. It produces negative self-image and alienation from their indigenous cultures (Tyson, 2006, 419). Kiran Desai was born in 1971 and one of the best writers in India. She was fifteen years old when she left for England with her mother, Anita Desai, who is also a well-known author. After a year they moved to the U.S.A, where Desai has lived till date. She is a part of the Indian Diaspora. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States of America

As might be expected from the rich input of her cultural background, Kiran Desai, daughter of the author Anita Desai is a born story-teller. Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (1998), is a fresh look at life in the sleepy provincial town of Shahkot in India. At 35 years old, Desai is the youngest woman ever to win the prize and was already highly acclaimed in literary circles for her first novel ‘Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard’ which won a Betty Trask award [2] when it was published

The dominant idiom of Indian writing today is firmly entrenched in pain, anxiety of displacement, nostalgia, yearning to belong to roots, and so on. Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss are two such novels that explore the tragedy of man on several levels using different perspectives. Both the novels are about averted culture-clash tragedies, homogeneity vs. heterogeneity, and about Indian sensibilities. This paper attempts to examine the fictional projections

TITLE : The Inheritance Of Loss AUTHOR : Kiran Desai PUBLISHER : Penguin Books India YEAR OF PUBLICATION : 2006 Kiran Desai is an Indian author. She was born in India in 1971. At the age of fourteen she moved to England. Her novel ‘ The Inheritance Of Loss’ won the Man booker Prize for the year 2006 and the National Book Critics Circle fiction award. Desai is the youngest female to win the Booker prize. She is a part of Indan Diaspora. As a south Asian diapora writer she gives voice to people who

went toward the purchase of a used aircraft and initial expenses. The rest of the money was never accounted for. In 92 and 93, Gordon Roddick, Anita 's husband and BSI 's executive director, brought four Body Shop country head franchisers to the Indian communities, charging them $25,000 each. Again, the Indians never saw any of this money. After one of Anita Roddick 's earliest visits, she announced that Body Shop would extend the project to other Mebengokre villages. They began competing for Body

Abstract: The main objective of this study is to attempt an ecocritical analysis of Jawaharlal Nehru’s Glimpses of World History. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) is one of the greatest statesmen and writers of the twentieth century. He has written a number of books of which Glimpses of World History is an outstanding contribution to Indian Literature in English. His letters to his daughter clearly reveal Nehru’s interest on ecocritical tropes and his ecological sensibility. As a lover of nature, he

Loss is Strong but Memories are Powerful. In the novel The Book of Negroes written by Lawrence Hill loneliness and love plays an important role in the character development of Aminata Diallo who is the main character of this novel. This novel emphasizes the loss of the people Aminata loves most and how she works through the losses of her loved ones with the memories of these people to help her cope with the losses. Loss is a powerful thing that everyone faces at least once in their lifetime.

The Inheritance of Tools by Scott Russell Sanders is an essay written from the perspective of Sanders in relation to his life struggles and the significance of the tools and trade that he has inherited from his dead father. In this essay it is clear that Sanders is mourning the loss of his father. This creates a mood that is very real and a tone in the essay of sadness but it never seems depressing. Its sad but in a good way of remembering someone for their good qualities. The tone tells us that