Class X Unit I Generations - Games at Twilight (Short Story)

Anita Desai 

She was born in 1935 in Delhi to a German mother and a Bengali father. She married a businessman at twenty-one and raised several children before becoming known for her writing. Her first book, Cry,the Peacock was published in England in 1963, and her better known novels include In Custody (1984) and Baumgartner's Bombay (1988). Desai only writes in English. She is considered the writer who introduced the psychological novel in tthe tradition of Virginia Woolf to India. Included in this, is her pioneer status of writing of feminist issues.
Desai has taught for years at Mount Holyoke and MIT, and spends most of the year outside of India, she does not consider herself part of the Indian Diaspora. Although she does not fit in the Indian box anymore (Griffiths) as she said, she considers herself lucky for having not left India until late in her life, because she feels that she has been drifting away from it ever since: "I can't really write of it with the same intensity and familiarity that I once had." Yet she cannot feel at home in any other place or society (Griffiths).