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Anita Desai FRSL (born Anita Mazumdar, 24 June 1937) is an Indian novelist and Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times.
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize [ 1 ] and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award. [ 2 ] In January 2015, The Economic Times listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
The 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 for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2012.
In the March/April 2006 issue of Bookmarks, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.0 out of 5) based on critic reviews, with the critical summary stating, "Maybe it's in her genes: the daughter of Indian novelist Anita Desai, Kiran Desai skips past the sophomore doldrums with this assured second novel." [4]
Cover of the first American edition of Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai (1980) Clear Light of Day is a novel 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 Indian family, starting with the characters as adults and moving ...
Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. [1] It was proposed by Radhika Desai in her Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire [2] as a critique of contemporary mainstream theories of International political economy (IPE) and International relations (IR). [3]
Shantinath Kuberappa Desai (1929–1998) was one of the leading modern authors of the Navya (modernist) movement in Kannada Literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In most of his novels, short stories, and essays, Desai explores the challenges of a changing society and its drift from traditional values.
Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai, Baron Desai (born 10 July 1940) is an Indian-born naturalised British economist and former [1] Labour politician. He stood unsuccessfully for the position of Lord Speaker in the House of Lords in 2011. [2] He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, in 2008. [3]