Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The bond of sisterhood sings a melodious lullaby to sail in the storm Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a multifarious writer, a poet, novelist and a story teller. Her writings weave around the world of feminism. Divakaruni’s creations are directed mainly towards women of all cadres who share a common experience. This paper ponders the eternal bond between the protagonists in Sister Of My Heart. As a Diasporic writer Chitra Banerjee has caught the ground breaking idea in the bonds between the…

At first glance, many observations can be made from the clothing one wears. The fit, the style, and the color all contribute to what identity one presents to the world. In “Clothes” by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, different garments represent the different cultures Sumita inhabits. Her saris, colorful and flowing, hold deep significance in her homeland and are worn during monumental and ceremonial moments. On the other hand, the tight and mundane American clothes demonstrate a more casual and…

too- ultimately pain is only like itself. (VD 3) So begins Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel The Vine of Desire. Divakaruni textures the experiences of Calcutta born and raised sisters, Sudha and Anju, living as adult women in 1990s San Francisco, as they journey through the hues of pain that are necessary for their discovery of self-worth in an oppressive society. In the novel, Divakaruni portrays the rewards and perils of breaking…

cultural ethos in the new immigrant country. The striking feature of the writings of the Diasporic writers like Divakaruni is that she concentrates on the rootlessness, alienation, despair, nostalgia, marginalization, readjustment, assimilation and adoption. Among these the basic features of diaspora is the uprooting of the self from the native land and of settling down elsewhere. Chitra Banerjee Divakurani…

The Palace of Illusions , written by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a rendition of the Hindu epic Mahabharata as told from Panchaali's (Draupadi’s) point of view , namely, that of a woman living in a patriarchal world. It is narrated by Paanchali herself, who is the wife of the five Pandava brothers. It follows Paanchali’s life from a fiery birth and a childhood spent in loneliness, where she only had her…

by actual events. Freud demonstrates that one of the most poignant and persistent memories of his own childhood were a memory of a fantasised scene. (Eisendrath and Dawson, 2008:43) A woman on the ground opens her arms for the woman who was in the sky. This is what we do with grief. The dead are droplets of seawater and ash, riding the air. Are they rising? Are they falling? Look, there‘s no difference. The earth‘s curvature is like a smile. (p.373) At times, we perceive that…

JhumpaLahiri’ sInterpreter of Maladies depicts the displaced immigrant protagonistsand second generation Indian-American characters searching for a way to fit into a community. The narrative is a collection of nine short stories concerned with the diasporic postcolonial situation of the lives of Indians and Indian-Americans. It underlines the centrality of cultural translation in the process of possessing and re-possessing the past and the presentboth chronological and spatial in a meaningful…

Economists, theologians, and sociologists have all hypothesized why societies, both Christian and Hindu, continue to embrace defined gender roles. Economically, financially independent women are often perceived as a threat. An Oregon survey of engineers reported, “Men maintained their objection (to the pay increase of women ) even though their own wage would not be lowered if the women’s wage were increased” (Aker 456) . A proposed explanation was the potential degradation of a man’s…

Anglian fiction. Flood of fire is about a world of sepoys sahibs and rajahs who are travelling from Assam to Calcutta to Canton. “Vikrm Seth attained dizzy height of success with The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitably Boy (1993). He stunned the literary world with his novel. Upamanya Chatterjee, with his novel English August (1988) was a great success”. Chatterjee’s tone was ironic and shown all the administration. Chatterjee brightly uses Indianised English in the novel. His contemporary…

Is unity in diversity just a mere tolerance of physical, cultural, linguistic, social, religious, political, ideological and/or psychological differences or is it something more? Is it really required? What is the importance of a heterogeneous society when similarity can bring about a better understanding among people and cut conflicts? To understand all this, we must start with the basics. What is unity in diversity? Unity in diversity is unity without uniformity and diversity without…