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BACKGROUND Desai was born Anita Mazumdar to a German mother and a Bengali father in Mussoorie , India . She was educated in Delhi at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School and Miranda House , University Of Delhi . She is married, has four children and her daughter, Kiran Desai , is a novelist in her own right. ACADEMIA Desai has taught at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Girton College, Cambridge and Clare Hall, Cambridge. FILM The 1993 Merchant Ivory Productions film '' In Custody '' (based upon her 1984 novel of the same name) was directed by Ismail Merchant , with a screenplay by Shahrukh Husain . It won the 1994 President of India Gold Medal for Best Picture and stars the noted actors Shashi Kapoor , Shabana Azmi and Om Puri . SELECT WORKS
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