TY - JOUR AU - Vivek Kumar Gupta, PY - 2016/04/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Cry The Peacock: A Critical Evaluation JF - The Creative Launcher JA - The Creative Launcher VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/359 SP - 76-83 AB - <p>Anita Majumdar Desai is a Sahitya Akademy Award winning writer. She received this award for the novel <em>Fire on the Mountain</em> in 1978. She has fourteen novels to her credit. As a novelist she has been shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize successively in the years 1980 for the novel <em>Clear Light of Day</em>,1984 for the novel <em>In Custody</em>,1999 for the novel <em>Fasting, Feasting</em>. She was born in Mussoorie on 24 June 1937. She is an Indian novelist and the Emeritus John Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was born to a German mother, Toni Nime, and a Bengali businessman, D.N. Mazumdar.</p> ER -