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VIRGINIA WOOLF & ANITA DESAI ARE THEY SAME ?

Here the question is, can Anita Desai be an Indian version of Virginia Woolf ? Well,  It has been seen that there is a vast similarity between Woolf's and Desai's style of writing. In spite of the fact that both are from different centuries and countries. Virginia is a modernist literary figure of twentieth century whereas Anita is also powerful contemporary English novelist. The former represents the British English sophisticated society whereas the later the Indian culture and tradition. Although both belongs to different era and literary period but still their method of writing is quite similar, they both follow the same techniques in their writings. They showed interest in representing the character's inner thoughts and consciousness rather than social and political representation of it. Their keen interest has always been in telling about their personal life or  autobiographical content as well as portraying their family members.  It can be seen that their se