Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Anita Desai

Born: June 24, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Anita Mazumdar Desai is an Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
- Fasting, Feasting (1999)
- Clear Light of Day (1980)
- In Custody (1984)
- The Village by the Sea (1982)
- Baumgartner's Bombay (1988)