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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Anita Desai
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Born: June 24, 1937 (age 87)
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)