Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whakaputaina e Desai tana pukapuka tuatahi, Cry The Peacock, i te 1963. I whakaarohia e ia te Maama Maama o te Ra (1980) tana mahi tino koiora i te mea i whakaturia i te wa e pakeke ana ia, i te takiwa ano hoki i tipu ake ai ia. I te tau 1984, i whakaputaina e ia i roto i te Kaitiaki <unk> e pa ana ki tetahi kaitoi Urdu i ona ra e heke ana <unk> i tohua mo te Tohu Booker. I te tau 1993, ka noho ia hei kaiako tuhituhi auaha i te Whare Wananga Hangarau o Massachusetts. Ko te 1999 Booker Prize finalist novel Fasting Feasting i whakanui ake i tana rongonui. Ko tana pukapuka, The Zigzag Way, i whakaturia i te rautau 20 o Mexico, i puta i te 2004 ana ko tana kohinga tata o nga korero poto, Ko te Kaitoi o te ngaro i whakaputaina i te 2011. Kua whakaako a Desai i te Whare Wananga o Mount Holyoke, Baruch College me Smith College. He hoa ia no te Royal Society of Literature, te American Academy of Arts and Letters, me te Girton College, Cambridge (i whakatapua e ia te Bombay a Baumgartner).  Pātai: I whakaputaina te pukapuka tuatahi a Desai i tehea tau?
Ko te tau 1963