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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.
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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]
T. R. Desai (1876-1914) was an Indian lawyer and author best known for writing books in Trust, Equity, Limitation, Easement, Government Tenders, Contract and Sale of Goods Act. He was the father of Justice S. T. Desai , Chief Justice of Gujarat and Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India.
The Patriot). Beside the printing house of his father Vasantlal, there was a book shop which provided him books for reading during his school life. Desai studied until sixth standard at his uncle's home in Shinor and then moved to Vadodara in 1902 and was admitted in the Branch School. He was engaged to Kailasvati at age of eight and they ...
The day after J. M. Coetzee's novel, Disgrace, was announced as the winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, in an article for The Guardian, John Sutherland, Professor of English at University College, London, leaked hints of divisions and encampments on the panel — so incurring the wrath of the other judges, who wrote furious articles of their own, lambasting him for his indiscretion.
Desai was born in 1925 to a Gujarati family that was involved in and supported the Indian Independence Movement. [citation needed] Desai herself joined the freedom movement at an early age as a schoolgirl when she became a part of the Vanar Sena (Monkey Brigade), founded by Indira Gandhi which helped the underground circulation of political messages and banned publications. [3]
Kishwar Desai (née Rosha) (born 1 December 1956) is an Indian author and columnist. Her first novel, Witness the Night , won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel and has been translated into over 25 languages.