Anita Desai (1937) is one of the famous novelists of contemporary India. As a writer she has been shortlisted for the booker prize three times. Her contribution in the development of Indian novel in English is momentous. Most of her work deals with inner life of an individual who is jam-packed with psychosomatic problems. The life of an individual is highlighted through the themes of love, marriage and sex. She has written many notable works including Cry, the Peacock(1963), Voices in the City(1965), Fire on the Mountain(1978),in Custody(1984), Journey to Ithaca(1995), Fasting, Feasting(1999), and the Zigzag Way(2004). She also wrote a notable collection of short stories named Games as Twilight and other Stories (1979). One of the most common characteristics of Anita Desai’s novels is the description of individuality in the light of family and society. Now-a-days this phase (Phase of individuality) has become the most discussed phase in Indian English novels due to rapid industrialization and the westernization of attitudes of the people. After taking a minute study of her fiction we come to know that she has become successful in using individuality in her novels mainly in the Voices in the City.