Just saw this at High Browse Online:Meet novelist, short-story writer and children’s author Anita Desai in person! Don’t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to speak to one of the world’s most eminent writers! Details as follows: Monday, 25 August 20087.00 pmThe Pod, Level 16, National LibraryAdmission is Free. All are Welcome. More about Anita Desai: Now a Professor of Humanities at MIT, Anita Desai was born in India in 1937 to an Indian father and a German mother. She was three-times nominated for the Booker Prize, but ironically, in a twist of fate, her daughter, Kiran Desai, won the prize in 2006 for her book The Inheritance of Loss. In 1993 Merchant Ivory released a film based on one of her books, In Custody. In 1990, she was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s highest artistic honour. Cry, the PeacockCall No.: DESAnita’s first novel in 1963 sets outthe major themes that wouldoccupy her writing – the tensionsbetween modernity and tradition,especially on Anglicized middle-classIndian women.Link   Web ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com myrightbrain.wordpress.com roughnotes.wordpress.com