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In Custody
BookAnita Desai • 1984
ISBN: 0-14-023813-1
TMC: G1315-eng
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In Custody by Anita Desai follows Deven Sharma, a small-town Hindi teacher who gets the chance to meet the famous Urdu poet Nur Shahjehanabadi. His admiration turns into disappointment as he encounters the poet’s troubled life, broken relationships, poverty, and declining creativity. The novel explores literature, dreams, failure, human relationships, and the gap between ideals and reality.
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Keywords
Urdu poetry
Hindi teacher
Literature
Dreams
Disappointment
Failure
Relationships
Creativity
Identity
Reality
Artistic decline
Middle-class life
Deven Sharma
Nur Shahjehanabadi