Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Iye ndiye mwanasikana wechipiri wevakakurumbira Kannada munyori wemitambo uye munyori Sriranga. Akaberekerwa muKarnataka uye akadzidza muBombay (zvino Mumbai) uye Bangalore. Deshpande ane madhigirii muEconomics neMutemo. MuMumbai, akadzidza zvemapepanhau paVidya Bhavan uye akashanda kwemwedzi mishoma semutori wenhau kumagazini inonzi 'Onlooker'. Akaburitsa muunganidzwa wake wekutanga wenyaya pfupi muna 1978, uye bhuku rake rekutanga, 'Rima Harina Kutya', muna 1980. Akakunda Sahitya Akademi Award nokuda kwenyaya yake That Long Silence muna 1990 uye Padma Shri mubayiro muna 2009. Shashi Deshpande akanyora mabhuku mana evana, nyaya pfupi dzinoverengeka, uye enganonyorwa pfumbamwe, kunze kwezvinyorwa zvinoverengeka zvinonzwisisika, izvo zvino zvave kuwanikwa muvhoriyamu yakanzi Kunyora kubva kuMargin uye Dzimwe Essays.  Mubvunzo: Zita romusoro wenhau wokutanga waDeshpande rainzi chii?
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