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Title	:	In Custody
Author	:	Anita Desai
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 204 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1994 by Penguin Books Ltd (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India. Asian Literature. Indian Literature

In Custody

Anita Desai

Paperback | Pages: 204 pages

Rating: 3.34 | 1282 Users | 125 Reviews

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Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India’s greatest Urdu poet, Nur – a project that can only end in disaster.

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Original Title:	In Custody
ISBN:	0140238131 (ISBN13: 9780140238136)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (1984)

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Anita Mazumdar Desai was born in Mussoorie, India in 1935.Her mother was German and her father was a Bengali businessman. She grew up speaking German at home and Bengali, Urdu, Hindi and English outside the house, but, did not visit Germany until later in life as an adult. She first learned to read and write in English at school and as a result English became her preferred language in which to write. She began to write in English at the age of seven and published her first story at the age of

Deven is a common man....a Hindi lecturer.....in a remote college....of a forgotten place...perhaps lost in time........!!!! An opportunity knocks at his door in the form of Murad, his opportunistic friend .....and his magazine dedicated to saving Urdu and the dying art of poetry....!!!! Deven is given the opportunity to interview grand Urdu Poet Nur.......!!!! What follows is the chaos and downhill spiral that throws Deven and his life into a turmoil.......debts......threats.....and failure of

I find this quote particularly relevant in order to encapsulate the book's spirit:"What is this all for? What is this about?"

SJC Review: 4.2A provincial lecturer in a small college in Mirpore, northern India, is the fallible and passive protagonist who falls victim to the vicissitudes of fortune which follow on from the conceit he dares to display in meeting and assisting his lifelong hero. This opportunity is afforded Deven by ex school-friend, and present editor of a literary magazine, Murad, for whom the former is an occasional contributor. From the outset, Desai paints her principal character as a man of

Slowest pacing ever. Unfulfiling payoff, literally zero plot driven long chapter and STUPID HALF BOILED PROPAGANDA. I wonder showing a place called Mirpur in Kashmir and talking about how Hindi is killing Urdu makes zero sense, when you forget Kashmiri is the native language of Kashmir and yet has no mention as if it's non-existant. Another attempt of HISTORICAL NEGATIONISM. Also Deven 'Sharma', a Kashmiri Pandit in the later 20th century. Who are you kidding? Also who'll talk about how Urdu ate

In Custody is a novel by one of the most prolific Indian writers in English, Anita Desai. In 1984 the book was turned into a feature film starring Shashi Kapoor, Om Puri, and Shabana Azmi. The story revolves around Deven who is a Hindi Literature Professor at a college in Mirpore. Though Deven teaches Hindi, his heart lies in the Urdu language, especially in Urdu poetry. His friend Murad who is small time Urdu publisher asks him to interview Nur, Deven's favorite Urdu poet. And with this starts

Reading morose Indian fiction is extremely trying on my nerves. It pulls me down and keeps me there for weeks after I go through any such stories. I don't mean to say that human frailty and failings do not deserve an airing now and then. Its just that I have found that Indian authors have a knack for bringing out a deep well of hopelessness in their writings that are devoid of any stray ray of laughter or happiness to alleviate the sheer darkness of despair in the lives of their main