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    Anita Desai’s story is all about duty and devotion. It draws a picture of the life of a son. The son is brought up by his father‚ starts earning his livelihood and then‚ dutifully looks after his father. However‚ crisis develops as his father‚ whimsical due to age‚ starts misinterpreting his son’s treatment. The question that the story posse is that how long should a son take care of his father? What should be the extent of his dutifulness and obedience? This is a problem of the modern world caused

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    A Devoted Son by Anita Desai Summary This story takes place in a shabby suburb in India. Rakesh‚ the son of a vegetable seller‚ triumphs in medical school and afterwards. He is a devoted son‚ bowing to his father‚ marrying the girl his parents choose‚ and becoming the director of his own clinic nearby. His father grows old‚ becomes a widower and begins to develop physical complaints and unpleasant habits‚ such as spitting forcibly. Still‚ his son tends him‚ and even decides to take over the man’s

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    Anita Desai

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    Children’s Fiction Award. Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and short story writer. She is known for her sensitive portrayal of the inner feelings of her female characters. Many of Anita Desai’s novels explore tensions between family members and the alienation of middle-class women. In her later novels‚ Anita Desai wrote on varied themes such as German anti-Semitism‚ the demise of traditions‚ and Western stereotypical views of India. Anita Desai was born as Anita Mazumdar on June 24‚ 1937 in

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    III *ISSUE-32 RESEARCH ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION Among the post- independence Indo- English writers Anita Desai holds a prominent place because of the immense popularity she commands as a novelist of human predicament of anxiety‚ frustration and loneliness in the insensitive and inconsiderate contemporary world. This paper aims at tracing the theme of alienation in the novels of Anita Desai. Alienation refers to estrangement that occurs in the relation between an individual and that to which

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    org/ijel ISSN 2141-2626 ©2011 Academic Journals Review Anita Desai’s ‘in custody’: Unlocking the web of time and space Bhasha Shukla Sharma Department of Humanities‚ University Institute of Technology‚ Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya‚ Bhopal. (M.P)‚ India. E-mail: Bhasha.shukla@gmail.com. Tel: 9826090200. Accepted 6 August‚ 2011 This paper attempts to semiotically interpret the use of time and place as narrative device in Anita Desai’s ‘In Custody’. Space and time have aroused the curiosity

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    In this novel‚ as in so many others by Anita Desai‚ the key themes of identity and language are explored and developed. This is vital considering the context in which Desai sets so many of her novels‚ which is post-Partition and the massive upheaval that occurred as Pakistan was created as a separate nation and many Muslims and Hindus had to relocate and an imaginary border was created in a nation. The focus on language is shown in Deven‚ who focuses on Hindi poetry because he has no choice but to

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    Analytic Paragraph on “A Devoted SonAnita Desai uses elements of Psychoanalytic theory in her short story “A Devoted son” to show the importance of respect in the lives of humans. Rakesh’s father loved his son during the earlier part of the story as Rakesh was not challenging his authority and instead contributed to making his father a respected man in society. When Rakesh grew up and became the new “man of the house “his father was no longer the alpha male in his home which meant that his

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    A conversation with Anita Desai‚ and some notes on her work [Statutory warning: long‚ bifurcated post – some thoughts on Anita Desai’s writing followed by a Q&A. Apologies in case there’s some overlapping between the two elements. I wrote it as a flowing piece - a profile-cum-interview - for Business Standard Weekend but since there isn’t a word-constraint here I prefer to spread it out and play with the format.] Long before the publication of Midnight’s Children brought alive new possibilities

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    Interview with Anita Desai Magda Costa interviewed Anita Desai in Barcelona‚ 30 Jan 2001. Desai was in Spain to launch the Spanish and Catalan translations of Fasting‚ Feasting. -How was it to grow up in a family like yours‚ with a German mother and a Bengali father‚ in India? -When you are a child you take for granted what your family is; you don’t question it. The fact is that my mother adapted so completely to the Indian way of life that nobody thought of her as a foreigner anymore. It’s true

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    She is less concerned with the outer undertakings she had as with the inward climate. Anita considers external reality to be the slightest in examination with the inside clashes. One of her written work named Holler the Peacock in which Maya is the character who conceived of an upper white collar class Brahmin crew. Having become motherless

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