Volume : VII, Issue : III, March - 2018

CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN ANITA DESAI‘S BYE, BYE- BLACK BIRD

K. Kanagarani

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Anita Desai was born on June 24, 1937, in the hill station of Mussoorie, Uttar Pradesh, India. She was one of four children: she had a other and two sisters, all raised in what was a British colony in their youth. Desai’s father D.N. Mazumdar was a Bengali engineer. Her mother, Toni Nimé, was German and met Mazumdar in Germany, then emigrated to India in the 1920s. Desai has said that it was exposure to her mother’s European core that allowed her to experience India as both an insider, and an outsider. Although Desai was formally educated in English, she was raised speaking both Hindi and German in her home in Old Delhi. She attributes some of the diversity of her fictional characters to having lived among a mix of Hindu, Muslim, and Christian neighbors while growing up.

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K.KANAGARANI, CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN ANITA DESAI'S BYE, BYE- BLACK BIRD, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-3 | March-2018

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