41. Rediff.com: The Rediff US Special/Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni rediff.com Ms chitra banerjee divakaruni pens a apecial short story on the Indianobsession with skin colour and the role in played in her life. http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/02usspec.htm

HOME US EDITION April 2, 2001 US city pages Atlanta Boston Chicago DC Area ... SF Bay Area channels Astrology Broadband Cricket New! Immigration Indian Auctions Lifestyle New! Money Movies New To US New! Radio Wedding Women India News ... US News services Airline Info Calendar New! E-Cards Free Homepages Mobile New Shopping New Weather communication hub Rediff Chat Rediff Bol Rediff Mail Home Pages Stay Updated Subscribe to Rediff Roundup Search the Internet Tips Recent Specials The Harsh Days of Their Lives 'Clinton says the people of India are ... Shashi Tharoor The Rediff US Special/ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Best-selling novelist Divakaruni's newest book, The Unknown Errors of Our Lives, a collection of stories, will be published in mid-April I n the Calcutta of the fifties, when I was born, the family didn't say, "Not another girl. How will we ever find the money for the dowry?" Those were enlightened times. They knew girls were important and worth loving. They would educate me, and that would be better than any dowry. But they did say, "Too bad she's so dark." Because that was what separated Premium Quality from Econo-Pack. Fair skin.

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43. Profile Of CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI: BUILDER OF EAST/WEST BRIDGES By Barbara Y Featured in Vol. 12, No. 3. chitra banerjee divakaruni Builder of East/WestBridges by Barbara Youree. Artist Marilyn Larson. divakaruni http://www.potpourri.org/editor/bios/bio_chitra/bio_chtra.html

Featured in Vol. 12, No. 3. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Builder of East/West Bridges by Barbara Youree Artist Marilyn Larson Divakaruni’s latest creation, Sister of My Heart (Anchor Books, 1999), is a reader’s delight: a novel with sacrificial friendship, family secrets, a clash of old mystical tales with modem ways, wrenching pain, ecstatic joy, a surprise at every page turn-all woven together with exotic metaphor and lyric harmony. Like all of Divakaruni’s writing, this is about women from her native India who struggle to find identity and meaning in their lives, trapped between east / west cultures. Particularly, she wrote Sister of my Heart to honor the special friendships between women. Two cousins are born in Calcutta the same day, to the same upper-caste household, both deprived of fathers, and raised by “the mothers,” their own and a widowed aunt. Though very different in nature, they are bonded close as twins. Divakaruni has chosen to alternate chapters-in Sudha’s voice, then Anju’s. The richness of her language comes through, for example, in Sudha’s description of her mother: She laughs often...especially when her friends come for tea and talk. It is a glittery, tinkling sound, like jeweled ankle bells, people say, though I myself feel it is more like a thin glass struck with a spoon. Her cheek feels as soft as the lotus flower she’s named after on those rare occasions when she presses her face to mine. But more often when she looks at me a frown ridges her forehead between eyebrows beautiful as wings. Is it from worry or displeasure? I can never tell. Then she remembers that frowns cause age lines and smoothes it away with a finger.

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Summer 2001 The Unknown Errors of Our Lives Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Doubleday ($23.95) by By Michelle Reale ropelled by the conventional wisdom that what is unknown in our lives hurts and corrodes more than what we know, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's latest book of short stories subtly takes the possibility of good in our lives and gives it a little twist. Her human but flawed characters constantly err; they manage to find tiny pin pricks of redemption in situations that seem otherwise capable of laying the fragile human spirit to waste, but their "solutions" often become resignations. In these nine short stories, Divakaruni focuses on the lives of women almost exclusively, no doubt traversing terrain both familiar and close to her heart. Males, when they do appear, are ancillary to the actual stories themselves, existing instead as shadowy or fragmented characters lending masculine scenery and staying close to the frayed edges. One might rightfully ask what the errors in our lives actually are.

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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! Mario Savio , Dec. 1964 information and some anti-war organizations: actagainstwar.org internationalanswer.org iraqbodycount.net moveon.org ... womeninblack.net news sources: indymedia.org london guardian HOME CHECKLIST ... SEARCH Reviews: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Mistress of Spices Winner, Crawford Award. Arranged Marriage (collection of short stories) HOME CHECKLIST anthologies lists ... SEARCH We welcome your comments, suggestions, and offers of assistance Please be patient while waiting for us to get back to you. about credits faq feedback ... privacy These pages are edited and maintained at http://www.feministsf.org/

46. About Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni About chitra banerjee divakaruni There is a certain spirituality,not necessarily religiousthe essence of spiritualitythat http://www.ivillage.com/books/auth/bio/articles/0,,240815_58124,00.html

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Books Index Sonoma County Independent MetroActive Central Archives Bridge-Builder Debra Lill In person: Divakaruni speaks Feb. 25 in Santa Rosa and Feb 26 in Sonoma. Divakaruni's fiction spans two worlds By Patrick Sullivan MOVING TO the United States really made me renegotiate my boundaries and, in some ways, even reinvent myself as a woman," says Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. "For many, many immigrant women, it's the same." Speaking by phone from New York City, the best-selling Indian-American author is explaining in her warm, rich voice the important role personal experience plays in her fiction. Divakaruni is a published poet and the author of Arranged Marriage , a collection of short stories that captured the American Book Award in 1996. But she is best known for her breakthrough 1997 novel, Mistress of Spices , a story of passion and magic that became a surprise bestseller. Both books draw heavily on the author's own experiences as an immigrant. Now the newly released Sister of My Heart (Doubleday; $23.95) carries on the theme, capturing the dilemmas and opportunities confronting women with one foot in traditional Indian society and the other in the modern world.

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Home Archives Reading Room Search ... West Links Weber Studies Winter 1998 Fiction Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Crossing The sky is streaked with grey and a strange bleeding pink I've never seen before. Or perhaps the intense cold is distorting my perceptions. I huddle in a coat that is too large for me, borrowed from my younger brother Ashu for this boat trip, trying to remember how it feels to be warm. The scratchy wool smells of musk, as new to me as the hard adult line of my brother's jaw, dark against the blinding snowbanks of the far shore. I am not quite sure why we are on this ferry, why we are attempting to cross this frozen lake whose name I cannot remember although Ashu said it just a few minutes ago. It is March in Vermont, the last day of my unhappy visit, and I still haven't done what I came here to do. I haven't been able to tell Ashu what's happening to our mother in India, haven't been able to beg him to go to her before it's too late. The River Queen's rusty deck shudders under my feet as the boat makes its slow uneven way across the lake. I can hear the crunch of ice being crushed somewhere below. I imagine enormous metal jaws closing in underwater dark on the huge, slippery blocks, grinding down till they crack, spraying ice-needles in every direction. Perhaps there are fish down there, their slight silver bodies mangled by the steel teeth, the water slowly turning the same pink as the sky. Nonsense! The fish know quite well how to take care of themselves, my brother would say if he knew what I was thinking. Or would he? I'm not sure any more. It's been a long time since we shared our fantasies, our fears.

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Ankomstens gåde Gennem mørket Gifttræets evangelium Hvis barn... ... Tidligere anbefalinger Hjerte Søster af Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni anbefalet af Pia Jacobsen, Horsens Bibliotek Lån bogen på Efter at have læst Rohinton Mistrys vidunderlige roman "En hårfin balance" har jeg læst en masse andre indiske romaner i håb om at finde en, der var ligeså god. Med "Hjerte Søster" er det næsten lykkedes! Bogen er en underholdende historie om uselvisk kærlighed, lidelse og lykke - og samtidig en kritisk beskrivelse af kvinders status i Indien. Bogens to hovedpersoner, Anju og Sudha, bliver født samme dag i samme hus. Den selvsamme dag omkommer begges fædre under dramatiske omstændigheder på deres jagt efter rigdom. Pigerne vokser op under samme tag og føler sig tæt forbundne - som tvillinger. Anju drømmer om at komme på universitetet, mens Sudha drømmer om børn. Ingen af pigerne har et arrangeret ægteskab med i fremtidsplanerne, men de må underkaste sig de indiske traditioner og blive gift som teenagere. Anju rejser med sin mand til USA, og Sudha må sige farvel til sit livs kærlighed for at blive gift med den mand, familien har udset sig til hende. Men Anjus mand elsker en anden, og Sudha er længe om at blive gravid. Da en fostervandsprøve viser, at hendes førstefødte bliver en pige, vil svigermoderen vil tvinge hende til abort. Sudha har siden barndommen haft kendskab til en familiehemmelighed, der er så forfærdelig, at den ødelægger meget i hendes liv. Men hemmeligheden om fædrenes forsvinden bliver i løbet af bogen langsomt optrævlet, og intet viser sig at være, som Sudha troede!

51. CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI: THE VINE OF DESIRE Email us! Sunday, March 17, 2002. Culture clash with sensitivity. By YVONNE CRITTENDENToronto Sun THE VINE OF DESIRE chitra banerjee divakaruni (Random House) http://www.canoe.ca/JamBooksReviewsV/vinedesires_divakaruni-sun.html

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52. Cris' Signed By Author First Edition Books New York Riverhead Books, 1996. divakaruni, chitra banerjee, 1956 Themistress of spices / chitra banerjee divakaruni. 1st Anchor Books ed. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/autobiography/cguerrer/signedbooks.html

Signed by author Abu-Jaber, Diana. Arabian jazz / Diana Abu-Jaber. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt Brace, Note: trade paperback Alcala, Kathleen, 1954- Spirits of the ordinary : a tale of Casas Grandes / Kathleen Alcala. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c1997. Alexie, Sherman, 1966- The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Sherman Alexie. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1993. Note: ReaderÂ’s copy Allende, Isabel. The infinite plan : a novel / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, c1993. Note: trade paperback Allende, Isabel. Paula / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 1st ed. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995. Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 1st trade ed. New York : Knopf, 1988. Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna / Isabel Allende ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. 1st trade ed. New York : Knopf, 1988.

53. ARTE P BUCHLADEN, Hannover - Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Die Hüterin Der Gewà Translate this page divakaruni, chitra banerjee - Die Hüterin der Gewürze. An der Grenze zwischenMagie und Realität spielt der erste Roman von chitra banerjee divakaruni. http://www.arte-p.de/t_gewurz.htm

Titel Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - Die Hüterin der Gewürze. Roman. Aus d. Amerikan. v. Angelika Naujokat. Diana-Taschenbücher Nr.6. 1998. Mit Vign.. ISBN 3-453-15014-7 versandbereit in 2-24 Stunden! Heyne, W. Verlag Euro 9,00 neue Suche: Bestellen Bengalische Sterne, Roman. Diana-Tb. 292. 2002. 270 S. Euro 8,00 Bestellen Der Duft der Mangoblüten. Erzählungen. Aus d. Amerikan. v. Angelika Naujokat. Diana-Tb.75. 1999. 365 S.. Euro 9,00 In ihrem Buch beleuchtet die Autorin die Situation indischer Frauen in der westlichen Gesellschaft. Sie erzählt von der Stärke uralter Traditionen und der Verheißung individuellen Glücks, von der Realität des Alltags in Chicago und Kalkutta und davon, wie sich elf sehr verschiedene Frauen aus Indien auf den steinigen Weg zu sich selbst machen. Bestellen Arranged Marriage. Der Duft der Mangoblüten, engl. Ausgabe.

54. The Vine Of Desire - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Vine Of Desire chitra banerjee divakaruni Ankit. The chitra banerjeedivakaruni has been writing novels from some time now. Though http://www.freshlimesoda.com/reviews/the_vine_of_desire_ankit.htm

The Vine Of Desire - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Ankit The dead are droplets of sea water and ash riding the air. The Vine Of Desire is the story of two young women far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood, who after a year of living separate lives are rekindling their friendship in America. The deep-seated love they feel for each other provides the much-needed support they both need - Anju from the personal tragedy that has left marks which refuse to go away, and Sudha from her failed marriage. Sudha who crosses the barrier of seven seas to help Anju recover from her failed pregnancy, realizes only too soon that Anju's husband has a hidden secret. A secret which shall change their whole life, their future and their relationship. The unlikely relationships they form with men and women in the world outside the immigrant Indian community as well as their families in India profoundly transform them - they evolve , rejoice, cry, smile, hope, fail, live. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been writing novels from some time now. Though she was in the bestsellers list ever since she wrote T

55. Sister Of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Sister Of My Heart chitra banerjee divakaruni Shruti G. Krishnan.Not many would have heard of this new and brilliant author. Did http://www.freshlimesoda.com/reviews/sisteromh_shruti_k.htm

Sister Of My Heart - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Shruti G. Krishnan Not many would have heard of this new and brilliant author. Did a tear or two stream down my cheek as I put down this amazing book? Sister Of My Heart speaks of the enduring and unconditional love between two cousins, Anju and Sudha. Born on the same tragic night when both their fathers disappear mysteriously, the cousins have little in common. Sudha, the more beautiful of the two, is quiet and submissive while Anju is the rebellious one. Sudha is the dreamer while Anju questions traditions and customs and sees things from the practical point of view. Sudha is diligent while Anju is clever. But they have one thing in common and that is their love for each other. Anju and Sudha teach us that to love is to sacrifice. Abha Pishi, Anju's widowed aunt tells Sudha a dreadful tale and in her heart, Sudha bears an unglamorous secret of treachery and betrayal. And all her life, she tries hard to compensate for what her father had done to Anju's father. In the due course of time, they get married and have lives of their own. Sudha settles in rural Bengal while Anju flies to California. Though trained to be perfect wives, they cannot live without each other. Their sacrifice for each other is tear-jerking and beautiful. An unexpected ending and a twist in the tale surprises the reader.

56. C I C E R O _ C H R . _ E R I C H S E N chitra banerjee divakaruni. chitra banerjee divakaruni er født i Calcutta, Indien. chitrabanerjee divakaruni. Kontakt os Copyright © 2002 Cicero Chr. http://www.cicero.dk/forfattere/chitra_banerjee_divakaruni.html

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Chitra Divakaruni: Writer, poet, mother, wife, and chief supporter of women's equality and human rights. An immigrant from Calcutta, India at age 19, Divakarumi has worked and written to better the conditions of women in abusive environments. Through her foundation of the helpline Maitri and her works of literature, Mrs. Chitra continues to be a significant source of aid who helps women rise again.

59. Full Product Review - The Vine Of Desire By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Vine of Desire chitra banerjee divakaruni Random House Hardcover; 373 pp.ISBN 0385-49729-6. The Vine of Desire by chitra banerjee divakaruni http://womenwriters.about.com/library/weekly/aafpr020702a.htm

zfp=-1 About Women Writers Search in this topic on About on the Web in Products Web Hosting Women Writers with Paula Kirman Your Guide to one of hundreds of sites Home Articles Forums ... Help zmhp('style="color:#fff"') Subjects ESSENTIALS In Review Quotations of the Week Her Story ... All articles on this topic Stay up-to-date! Subscribe to our newsletter. Advertising Free Credit Report Free Psychics Advertisement Full Product Review The Vine of Desire Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Random House Hardcover; 373 pp. ISBN 0-385-49729-6 The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Guide Rating - An immigrant family comes to the US to find their fortune in the land of plenty and opportunity. It's a familiar premise to a multitude of literary works that usually have a happy ending, with everyone settling in just fine and making a new life for themselves. Not so in The Vine of Desire Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's epic novel tells the story of one family's experiences in the United States. Originally from India, Sunil and his wife Anju are dealing with friction in their marriage after the miscarriage of their son. Both have shut out a lot of emotion from their relationship, as Sunil concerns himself with climbing the corporate ladder and Anju begins taking college writing courses. To make matters even more complicated, Sudha, Anju's cousin from India, comes to America to get away from the tatters of an abusive marriage. She brings her young daughter Dayita with her, and Sunil jumps at the opportunity to be a father figure to the young girl. Unfortunately, that is not all that Sunil wants: he is in love with Sudha, always has been, and her being right there under his roof brings back those latent feelings.

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Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee Chitra 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.

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