Deshpande ita ce 'yar'uwar Sriranga, marubuci kuma marubucin wasan kwaikwayo na Kannada. An haife ta ne a Karnataka kuma ta yi karatu a Bombay (yanzu Mumbai) da Bangalore. A Mumbai, ta yi karatun aikin jarida a Vidya Bhavan kuma ta yi aiki na wata biyu a matsayin ɗan jarida na mujallar 'Onlooker'. Ta wallafa ta farko tarin gajerun labaru a shekarar 1978, kuma ta farko da labari, 'The Dark Holds No Terror', a 1980. Ta lashe lambar yabo ta Sahitya Akademi don littafin That Long Silence a shekarar 1990 da Padma Shri a shekarar 2009.
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