Like mother, like daughter

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Indian novelist Anita Desai became Massachusetts Institute of Technology's first professor of writing in 1993 yet admits that she would have been far too nervous to attend a writing workshop when she was starting out in her twenties. Her daughter, Kiran Desai, whose first novel will be published in 1998, explains that she is not a workshop type of person and considers it curious that she was encouraged to start writing by a writing class in Virginia. She is a student of creative writing at Columbia University in New York but confesses that she finds speaking in class a nightmare.

Interview, Women novelists, Authors, Indian, Indian writers, Desai, Kiran

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The mathematician and the mystic

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Albert Einstein and Rabindranath discussed aspects of reality and determinism during meetings in 1930. Einstein argued for realism and objectivity in the physical world, while Tagore's views were similar to those of quantum theorists. Tagore's argument was that we can only think of nature in terms of structures we use, and these in term are linked to how we perceive the world. These are philosophical issues which have a long history, and which still have not been solved.

Analysis, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Philosophy, Einstein, Albert, Tagore, Rabindranath

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The perpetual outsider

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Anita Desai is a novelist and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker prize. She is the leading woman writer about India and has won literary awards and speaks at literary conferences. She has lived outside the subcontinent for several years but returns to India on visits. Her novels include Baumgartner's Bombay and Journey to Ithaca.

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