Anita Desai is really one of the most hilarious contemporary Indian novelists in english. Her novels are based on psychology. Her psychological novels are hailed as purely objective novels. In favour of this term she says, "it has been my personal luck that my temperament and circumstances have combined to give me the shelter, privacy and solitude required for the writing of such novels thereby avoiding problems a more objective writer has to deal with since he depends on observation than a private vision." Anita Desai has innovated power of writing novels. Her novels are enriched with tradition. Her real concern is only to explore the human psyche. While going through the fiction of Anita Desai what impresses the readers most is the manner how she peels off layer after layer the inner self of her protagonists and places it before the readers in a realistic manner. Many a times the readers get so much involved with these characters that they begin to share their joys and sorrows