1. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Website of IndianAmerican writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/CBD.html

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Biography C hitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, and her writing has been included in over 30 anthologies. Major Themes M uch of Divakaruni's work is partially autobiographical. Not only are most of her stories set in the Bay Area of California, but she also deals with the immigrant experience, which is an important theme in today's world, where the immigrant's voice is rarely heard. Her book Arranged Marriage is a collection of short stories, all about women from India caught between two worlds. In The Mistress of Spices Arranged Marriage , a work that includes stories about the abuse and courage of immigrant women. Arranged Marriage and her novel, The Mistress of Spices, are both highly acclaimed works by Divakaruni. In Arranged Marriage The Mistress of Spices is unique in that it is written with a blend of prose and poetry. The book has a very mystical quality to it, and, as Divakaruni puts it, "I wrote in a spirit of play, collapsing the divisions between the realistic world of twentieth century America and the timeless one of myth and magic in my attempt to create a modern fable" ("Dissolving" 2). The novel follows Tilo, a magical figure who runs a grocery store and uses spices to help the customers overcome difficulties. In the process, she develops dilemmas of her own when she falls in love with a non-Indian. This creates great conflicts, as she has to choose whether to serve her people or to follow the path leading to her own happiness. Tilo has to decide which parts of her heritage she will keep and which parts she will chose to abandon. The novel is currently being made into a movie.

2. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an awardwinning author and poet. Herwork is of My Heart . © 1995-2003 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/

Home About Chitra Background Writing Interviews Readings ... Contact Books Fiction Neela: Victory Song Vine of Desire The Unknown Errors of Our Lives ... Arranged Marriage Poetry Leaving Yuba City Black Candle The Reason for Nasturtiums ... Ordering Books Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker , and her writing has been included in over 30 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 11 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese. Chitra finished her first children's book, Neela: Victory Song (September 2002). It follows the story of a twelve-year-old girl caught up in the Independence movement in 1939 India. She will be doing several readings around the US during 2003. Chitra's latest novel, Vine of Desire , continues the story of Anju and Sudha, the two young women at the center of Divakaruni's bestselling novel Sister of My Heart Her latest book of stories is titled The Unknown Errors of Our Lives . In this collection, featuring tales set in India and America, Divakaruni illuminates the transformations of personal landscapes, real and imagined, brought about by the choices men and women make at every stage of their lives.

3. Voices From The Gaps: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI b.1957. PROJECT INFO. Overview and purpose of the program.Awards. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in 1957 in Calcutta, India. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/DIVAKARUNIchitra.html

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI b.1957 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) I am the mistress of spices. I can work the others too. Mineral, metal, earth and sand and stone. The gems with their cold clear light. The liquids that burn their hues into your eyes till you see nothing else. I learned them all on the island. But the spices are my love. I know their origins, and what their colors signify, and their smells. I can call each by the true-name it was given at first, when earth split like skin and offered it up to the sky. Their heat runs in my blood. From amachur to zafran, they bow to my command. At a whisper they bow to my command. At a whisper they yield up to me their hidden properties, their magical powers. Mistress of Spices Click to go to: Biography - Criticism Selected Bibliography Related Links BIOGRAPHY - CRITICISM Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in 1957 in Calcutta, India. One of her first memories is that of her grandfather telling her the stories from Ramayan and Mahabharat, ancient Indian epics. She quickly noticed that "interestingly, unlike the male heroes, the main relationships [the] women had were with the opposite sex-with their husbands, sons, lovers, or opponents. They never had any important women friends" (

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7. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. BIO. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in Calcutta,India and lived there until she came to the US to study at the age of nineteen. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-divakaruni-banerjee-chitra.asp

Interviews March, 2002 April, 1999 Books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni THE VINE OF DESIRE THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES SISTER OF MY HEART THE MISTRESS OF SPICES ... ARRANGED MARRIAGE Reading Group Guides ARRANGED MARRIAGE LEAVING YUBA CITY THE MISTRESS OF SPICES Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni BIO Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in Calcutta, India and lived there until she came to the US to study at the age of nineteen. In 1976, she started her graduate studies in English from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and went on to finish her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. To help pay for her studies, she did babysitting, selling merchandise in an Indian boutique, slicing bread in a bakery and washing instruments in a science lab. She briefly lived in Chicago and Ohio before she settled in Sunnydale, California in 1979. She started writing after immigrating here and so far has three novels to her credit, THE MISTRESS OF SPICES, SISTER OF MY HEART and THE VINE OF DESIRE and two collections of short stories, ARRANGED MARRIAGE and THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES. She currently lives in Sunnydale with her husband and two children while teaching creative writing at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA.

8. CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI. Artist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni TypeAuthor/Poet Ethnicity East AsianIndian Author Angie Plumley http://www.public.asu.edu/~dejesus/210entries/divakaruni/divakaruni.htm

CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Artist: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Type: Author/Poet Ethnicity: East Asian-Indian Author: Angie Plumley email address: angiecpl@imap1.asu.edu Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is of east Asian decent she was born in India in 1957 and lived there until she was nineteen ( gizmo@dcn.davis.ca.us ). At this point in Divakaruni's life when left Calcutta and came to the United States. Chirta always pursed with her education in the field of English and receiving a Master's degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and a Ph. D from the University of California at Berkeley, she lived in the International House and worked in the dining hall, slicing Jell-O and removing dishes from the dishwasher. Prior to moving to Sunnydale, California in 1979 she had lived in Chicago and Ohio. Divakaruni did not begin writing fiction until she had finished her doctoral studies in English at the University at the University of California at Berkeley. Poetry has always been a large part of Divakaruni's life. A significant part of Divakaruni's life is incorporated in her writing, poetry, and even a number of her fiction pieces reflect true aspects of her life ( www.yahoo.com./Chirta

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13. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Books Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Books. Sister Of My Heart By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni(paperback). Matrimonio Arreglado By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback). http://www.american-webshop.com/Chitra-Banerjee-Divakaruni

American WebShoppe God Bless America Singer Index Author Index Top Selling Accessories ... Photo Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Books Sister Of My Heart By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback) The Vine Of Desire By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (hardcover - January 2002) Arranged Marriage: Stories By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback - June 1996) The Mistress Of Spices By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback - March 1998) Multitude: Cross-cultural Readings For Writers By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback) We, Too, Sing America: A Reader For Writers By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (editor) (paperback) The Unknown Errors Of Our Lives: Stories By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (hardcover - April 2001) Black Candle: Poems About Women From India, Pakistan, And Bangladesh By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback - June 2000) La Senora De Las Especias By Chitra Banerjee, Et Al (paperback - July 2001) Neela: Victory Song (girls Of Many Lands) By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Troy Howell (illustrator) (paperback - September 2002) Leaving Yuba City: Poems By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback - August 1997) Matrimonio Arreglado By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (paperback) Reason For Nasturiums By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chiropractors Dentists Vision Care Allergists ... Massage Therapy Search WWW Search American-Webshop.com

14. SAWNET Bio: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Profile, related articles, book reviews, upcoming readings http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books/chitra_divakaruni.html

Sawnet Bookshelf Authors Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni was born in Calcutta and spent the first nineteen years of her life in India. She moved to the United States to continue her studies, getting a Master's degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, both in English. For several years she has been interested in issues involving women, and has worked with Afghani women refugees and women from dysfunctional families, as well as in shelters for battered women. Since 1991 she has been president of MAITRI , a South Asian women's service which she helped found in the San Francisco area. She has written several books of poetry, and her work has been included in over 30 anthologies. Her book of short stories, Arranged Marriage , which has won critical acclaim and the 1996 American Book Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers and PEN Oakland awards for fiction. She has two published novels: The Mistress of Spices and Sister of my Heart. For twenty years Divakaruni lived in the Bay Area and taught at Foothill College. In 1997 she moved to Texas with her husband and two children, where she taught creative writing at the University of Houston. She has now retired to Fremont, California. According to a UH press release, the Mistress of Spices is soon to be made into a major motion picture.

15. Bold Type: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Interviews and information from Random House's Bold Type magazine http://www.boldtype.com/0199/divakaruni/

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of the same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite these differences, since the day on which the two girls were bornthe same day their fathers died, mysteriously and violentlySudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates, as well as their hearts, are merged. In this issue of Bold Type, Chitra Divakaruni shares an essay about the love that binds women, in literature and in the real world. You can hear her read a passage from Sister of My Heart, and read excerpts of her poetry and prose from previous issues of Bold Type. Send us comments

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17. Books@Random | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Readers' Group Companion "My writing reflects my poetry .I am always conscious of rhythms.". chitra banerjee divakaruni on her work http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/divakaruni_bgc.html

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni feature on Bold Type , Random House's online literary magazine Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Readers' Group Companion Sister of My Heart Anchor/Doubleday hardcover, ISBN 0-385-48950-1, $23.95 US/$32.95 CAN The Mistress of Spices Anchor/Doubleday trade paperback, ISBN 0-385-48238-8, $12.00 US/$16.95 CAN Anchor/Doubleday hardcover, ISBN 0-385-48237-X, $22.95 US/$31.95 CAN Arranged Marriage Anchor/Doubleday trade paperback, ISBN 0-385-48350-3, $11.00 US/$14.95 CAN Anchor/Doubleday hardcover, ISBN 0-385-47558-6, $22.00 US/$29.95 CAN Leaving Yuba City: Poems Anchor/Doubleday trade paperback, ISBN 0-385-48854-4, $12.95 US/$17.95 CAN Contents: The Author and Her Work Questions for Discussion For those who have read Sister of My Heart ... Recommended Reading The Author and Her Work "My writing reflects my poetry....I am always conscious of rhythms." Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on her work With her writing, whether in a novel, short story, or poem, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni casts a spell. Her words flow swiftly, sweeping readers along; at times they whisper softly, tempting, at others they thunder emphatically, daring. Throughout her work, Divakaruni uses her chameleon-like voice and mastery of rhythm to create unforgettable characters and weave stories that are both exotic and familiar, at once fresh and universal. "There is a certain spirituality, not necessarily religious the essence of spirituality that is at the heart of the Indian psyche, that finds the divine in everything . . . . It was important for me to start writing about my own reality and that of my community."

18. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Arranged Marriage (1995) Awarded the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for fiction and an American Book Awardfrom the Before Columbus Foundation. © 19952003 chitra banerjee divakaruni. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/books/arranged_marriage/

Home About Chitra Background Writing Interviews Readings ... Contact Books Fiction Neela: Victory Song Vine of Desire The Unknown Errors of Our Lives ... Arranged Marriage Poetry Leaving Yuba City Black Candle The Reason for Nasturtiums ... Ordering Books Arranged Marriage (1995) Arranged Marriage , Chitra's first collection of stories, focuses on women from India caught between two worlds. The characters are "both liberated and trapped by cultural changes," struggling to carve out an identity of their own. Read an excerpt... For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates them from their homes in India. From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation. In one story, "Doors," the character Preeti, after moving to the United States, has come to love the western idea of privacy. She faces a dilemma when her husband's cousin wants to come live with them. She expresses her discontent with the situation, which shows her newfound decisiveness and her fight against her husband's view of a traditional Indian wife. In another story, "Clothes," the husband of the narrator, Sumita, dies and she is faced with the decision of staying in America or going back to India to live with her in-laws. Sumita calls widows who are serving their in-laws in India "doves with cutoff wings." Divakaruni deals with a variety of issues in the book, including racism, interracial relationships, economic disparity, abortion, and divorce. She says that the stories are inspired by her imagination and the experiences of others.

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Home Mission Exec Photos ... Conference Conference Links: Registration Schedule Events Speakers ... Directions Speakers and Performers Links: Banerjee Divakaruni Narayanan Sharma Chace ... Vijayaraghavan Information is being constantly updated. Please check back continually. Mrs. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 30 anthologies. Her works have been translated into 11 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew and Japanese. She was born in India and lived there until 1976, until she was nineteen, at which point she left Calcutta and came to the United States. She continued her education in the field of English by receiving a Master's degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. To earn money for her education, she held many odd jobs, including babysitting, selling merchandise in an Indian boutique, slicing bread in a bakery, and washing instruments in a science lab. At Berkeley, she lived in the International House and worked in the dining hall. She briefly lived in Illinois, Ohio and Texas, but has spent most of her life in Northern California, which she often writes about. She currently lives in the Houston area with her husband and two children. In 1991, she, along with a group of friends, founded

20. SAWNET: Books By And About South Asian Women Reviewed by Arati Belle. Arranged Marriage, by chitra banerjee divakaruni. Mistressof Spices, by chitra banerjee divakaruni. Reviewed by Shampa Chatterjee. http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/books/reviews.html

Fiction Poetry Non-fiction Anthologies ... Links Sawnet Book Reviews Anandi Gopal , by S.J.Joshi. Translated from Marathi by Asha Damle. Reviewed by Pratibha Ghogale-Kelapure. Animal Medicine , by Bina Shah. Reviewed by Arati Belle. Arranged Marriage The Better Man , by Anita Nair. Reviewed by Susan Chacko. Bitter Gourd and Other Stories , by Talat Abbasi. Reviewed by Rabea Murtaza. Blues from the Malabar Coast , by Nalini Warriar. Reviewed by Shanti Menon. Bolo! Bolo! . A collection of writings by South Asians living in North America. Reviewed by Radhika Chari. Bombay Time , by Thrity Umrigar. Reviewed by Lisa E. J. Lau. The Book of Shadows , by Namita Gokhale. Reviewed by Pratibha Ghogale-Kelapure. Breaking the Silence Domestic Violence in the South Asian American community. Edited by Sandhya Nankani. Reviewed by Susan Chacko. A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi. Reviewed by Champa Bilwakesh and Susan Chacko. The Collected Poems of Nalla Tan . Reviewed by Dipika Mukherjee. Darjeeling , by Bharti Kirchner. Reviewed by Monica Ghosh. English Lessons , by Shauna Singh Baldwin. Reviewed by Susan Chacko.

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