Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

question if life would be different if that mistake never happened. Curiosity is especially evident in “Christmas with Grandfather” and “The Unknown Errors of Our Lives” by Chitra…

Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. “Some insects, fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians, echinoderms and tunicates undergo metamorphosis, which is usually accompanied by a change of habitat or behavior”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki). But this change has been incorporated to human’s life…

The paper attempts to study psyche aspect of Diasporic woman by analysing the characters in the short stories collection of Chitra’s ‘Arranged Marriage’ and Jhumpa’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’, Both are the Diasporic Indian Writers, who are well known in the field of writing. The psyche of the diasporic Indian woman can be seen vividly in the collection of short stories, ‘Arranged Marriage’ and ‘Unaccustomed Earth’. Chitra is known for the unique style of writing , which is quite different from other…

Divakaruni makes Panchaali tell her story herself revealing all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heart breaks, her sorrows, her achievements and the unique ways in which she sees the world and her place in it. Thus Divakaruni’s narration becomes a gendered re-telling which tries to look at the epic through the eyes of Panchaali. Divakaruni clearly states her aim in the author’s note to the novel, “If I ever write a book, I remember thinking…. I would place the women in…

Tien Nguyen Professor Tanya Carrell ESL 5: Advanced Composition and Reading 27 July 2015 Arranged Marriage In the Arranged Marriage book, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni describes all the aspects of marriage. The book is a collection of eleven stories. The stories are diverse in the themes such as starting over again, surviving an adversity, transformation of a strong woman, domestic violence. Not only women but also their family members have to cope with the realism, relationship, and the contrast…

Her theatrical, often surprising journey will ultimately force her into the most difficult decision of her life. ‘With flawless narrative instinct and a boundless sympathy for her irrepressible characters, in Oleander Girl’’ Divakaruni brings us a perfect treat of a novel moving, wise, and memorable. As The Wall Street Journal raves, “Divakaruni emphasize the liberating force of storytelling with lavish prose. . . . She defies categorization.” An archetypal work of magical realism,…

Unity in diversity’ is the motto of our nation. India is a diversified country with many languages with many cultures and the people also different from one state to another. India’s is called as ‘Hindustan’ as it was full of Hindus once upon a time. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni employs myth in her novels to show the people how culture, tradition, religion and ecology play an important role in the lives of man. Myths are the stories that are based on tradition, culture and religion. They are not…

It also demonstrates the female character, the protagonist, taking the risk of leaving everything and moving in an unknown land in search of her identity and family secret. Oleander Girl is a permutation of Divakaruni’s visits to Kolkata and her brooding over family secrets which are thought to be shameful by Indian society consequently hide even from their own granddaughter. The novel is narrated from the perspectives of Korobi, her future mother in law, her grandmother, the Muslim driver and…

Thanjavur. Abstract: Women’s empowerment can be defined as the changing perception of how women feel about themselves. It can also be viewed as a force which gives women the courage to shed off the feeling of inferiority. Women are empowered to such an extent that they take charge of the environment in which they live. Empowerment points out to woman the need to fight for her rights and privileges in order to lead a comfortable life. This paper proposes to analyze the empowerment of women…

Divakaruni mentioned many acts of discrimination that the immigrants “do not speak/ of” (33-34), one being the “Dotbusters” (36). Dotbusters were a hate group in New Jersey that were against Indians and other South Asians in the late 1980s. Their main goal of the group was to drive the Indians out of New Jersey by any means necessary. This had taken place in many forms, from “motel raids” (34) to “stones/ thrown through glass windows” (34-35). This was taken from a letter that was published in…