So, while this article cannot provide a direct link to the PDF (due to copyright law), it provides the map . Search for the anthology Agenda Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter 1987). Check the Journal of Indian Writing in English . Ask Professor Google Scholar for the exact phrase "The Scholar and the Gypsy" in quotes.
For Anita Desai, the immigrant is the ultimate Scholar-Gypsy hybrid. The immigrant is forced to be a scholar (learning new languages, laws, and customs) while perpetually feeling like a gypsy (rootless, foreign, observing from the margins). This makes the immigrant the ideal modern novelist.
David is a sociology student (the "scholar") who views India as an empirical object of study, while his wife Pat (the "gypsy") is initially overwhelmed by the country but eventually finds a spiritual connection with a hippie community in Manali. The narrative highlights their temperamental contrasts