Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in 1957 in Calcutta, India. She attended a convent school in India run by Irish nuns during her childhood and later she got her bachelor’s degree from the University of Calcutta. In 1976, at the age of 19, Divakaruni immigrated to the United States. She continued her education in the United States by earning a master’s degree in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The Disappearance” was written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. This short story contains a satire mood. In the short story “The Disappearance,” we are introduced to a husband and his wife. The husband settles down and marries an Indian girl. On the outer shell, everything seems great until the wife vanishes. “The Disappearance” is an excellent representation of a story that contains an ironic tone. Divakaruni’s use of language reveals the physical abuse and controlling ways of an oblivious husband

In Provoked and “The Disappearance” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, they describe how the Indian women leave their native country and immigrate to Western countries due to the arranged marriage that they have no rights to choose. Although the Indian women try to learn and integrate into Western culture, their husbands expect them to be a traditional Indian woman who should stay home and take care of the children, certainly isolated from mainstream society. If the Indian women try to rebel or challenge

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni belongs to the category of writers who wish to portray their life experiences in English language. Banerjee probes diligently into the mystery of individuals’ existential sufferings and predicaments in foreign lands and dexterously expresses them in English language. English language has become inseparable in her live that she employs it as a befitting substitute to her own mother tongue in order to think and act real; imagine and express what she experiences as real.

In this present technologically superfast world, where the click of buttons is changing the way people think, plan and execute their works and live their lives, “virtual reality”, “surrealism”, “hyper reality” are the terms in vogue. They are so commonly used everywhere that they may not seem fanciful any more. However, the excitement in superstitions, magic and mysticism still prevails. India has always caught the imagination of foreigners as the land of hidden secrets – it is viewed as a “hub

Woman, in the light of feministic analysis, in the Immigrant Indian women characters in the short stories of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Arranged Marriage”. It deplores that being trapped between tradition and modernity, Chitra B. Divakaruni’s immigrant heroines are fully conscious of being victims of gender discrimination prevalent in the conservative male-dominated society. C. Divakaruni gives her pragmatic resolutions related to the modern Indian Immigrant women’s beleaguered existence. Repudiating

Clothes, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni This short story is about a young Indian woman named Sumita, her impending arranged marriage and subsequent trip to America, which is symbolized by the color and type of her clothes. The author utilizes color symbolism to express the emotional changes that Sumita is going through and how she uses colors to keep her grounded with her Indian beliefs during her transition from girl to bride-to-be to an Indian-American to widow. There are many examples

The short store “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is about a young Indian woman, Sumita, and her cultural transition to America that is symbolized by her clothes and the color of her clothes. The traditional Indian attire for a woman is a sari and each one has its own purpose. Her clothes also indicate her progression from daughter, to wife, to woman. The story starts off with the bride to be in a yellow sari preparing to meet her future husband by bathing in a lake. She describes the

She has published novels in multiple genres including realistic fiction, historical fiction, magical realism and fantasy. Her cross-cultural traditional themes can be vouched in her fictions beginning with The Mistress of Spices (1997), Sister of my Heart (1999) and its sequel The Vine of Desire (2002). The Diaspora life can be traced further in her work Queen of Dreams (2004) and Oleander Girl (2013). Another novel One Amazing Thing (2010) like the Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales each character

New Perspective of Panchali in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusion Abstract: In The Palace of Illusion, Divakaruni portrays Panchali as a bold, powerful and independent woman, an equal to the men and not subservient. She presents Panchali’s life as a series of choices made by her and giving her a voice in the overwhelmingly patriarchal society that was ancient India. Divakaruni interprets the epic – Mahabharat which provides a complete narrative. She gives a stronger role to the