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Anita Desai is a distinguished artist of high order and her concern for human lot has imparted profound appeal to her novels of all the contemporary Indian - English Novelists, she is indisputably the most popular and powerful feminist. She has made commendable contribution to the Indian-English fiction. She is a novelist of urban miler and is a fine mixture of Indian, European and American sensibilities. She is essentially a psychological novelist. Anita Desai is mainly concerned with the projection of the "psycho-philosophic, psycho-emotional and socio-psychic states of the female protagonists to living in alien, closed and cloistered world of existential problems and passions, loves and hates" - 10 (p6). Her main characters are mostly educated women. They are highly sensitive and emotional and are tortured by humiliating sense of neglect, of loneliness and desperation. She understands their problems deeply and highlights their miserable position. She agrees that women are denied the existential freedom, the right for responsible self hood for authenticity through individual choice. Her women are very sensitive and they generally rebel against their spouses, children, relations, society, and culture and against their ourselves.