India is a curious place that still preserves the past, rel… - Anita Desai

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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

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Anita Desai, born Anita Mazumdar (born 24 June 1937), is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of her daughters, Kiran Desai, is also a writer.

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