Podcast Episodes featuring Anita Desai

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Anita Desai and Andrew Robinson — The Modern Resonance of Rabindranath Tagore

On Being with Krista Tippett - August 06, 2014 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
He bestowed the title “Mahatma” on Gandhi. He debated the deepest nature of reality with Einstein. He was championed by Yeats and Pound to become the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Rabindranath Tagore was a polymath — a writer and a painter, a philosopher and ...

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[Unedited] Anita Desai with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett - August 06, 2014 12:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 9.6K ratings
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist of Bengali descent. Her novels include “Clear Light of Day,” “The Village by the Sea,” and “Fasting, Feasting.” This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Anita Desai and Andrew Robinson — The Modern Resonance o...

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Anita Desai

Bookclub - July 02, 2000 15:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 205 ratings
James Naughtie and a group of readers discuss the novel Fasting, Feasting with its author, Anita Desai, who also reads an extract from the book.

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Books written by Anita Desai

Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai

1 Episode - 183 pages - ★★★★ - 2.17K ratings