1. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an awardwinning author and poet. She has been published in over 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/

Home About Background Writing Interviews Readings ... Contact Books The Palace of Illusions (2008) The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming (2005) Queen of Dreams (2004) California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century (2004) ... Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. She has been published in over 50 magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker , and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. Her books have been translated into 16 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Russian and Japanese. Two of her books have been made into movies. Her new novel, The Palace of Illusions , will be published by Doubleday in February 2008. Buy a copy from an independent bookseller in the US. Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to the time of the Indian epic The Mahabharat—a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical. Through her narrator Panchaali, the wife of the legendary five Pandava brothers, Divakaruni gives us a rare feminist interpretation of an epic story. The novel traces Panchaali’s life, beginning with her magical birth in fire as the daughter of a king before following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father’s kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at the brothers’ sides through years of exile and a terrible civil war. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her stratagems to take over control of her household from her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husband’s most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female voice in a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate.

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Born Occupation Novelist Nationality India United States Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - ) is an Indian-American author, poet, and professor of English at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program Contents Background Career Works Fiction ... edit Background Divakaruni was born in Kolkata India . She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1976. That same year, she went to the United States to attend Wright State University where she received her Master's degree. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 ( Christopher Marlowe was the subject of her doctoral dissertation). edit Career She has taught at Foothill College in Los Altos California . She has also worked as a babysitter, a store clerk, a bread slicer, a dining hall attendant, and in laboratories. She now lives in Texas , where she teaches at The University of Houston Creative Writing Program Divakaruni is also a co-founder and former president of a helpline for South Asian women who are dealing with various forms of abuse from others. The organization

3. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 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

var gDcsId = "dcs30w0vc10000chxa0maatv9_2u6z"; Photo © 2001 Neela Banerjee Interviews March, 2002 April, 1999 Books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni QUEEN OF DREAMS THE VINE OF DESIRE THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES SISTER OF MY HEART ... 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. She is the bestselling author of the novels SISTER OF MY HEART and THE MISTRESS OF SPICES; the story collections THE UNKNOWN ERRORS OF OUR LIVES and ARRANGED MARRIAGE, which received several awards, including the American Book Award; and four collections of prize-winning poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker The Atlantic Monthly Ms. Zoetrope Good Housekeeping O: The Oprah Magazine The Best American Short Stories 1999 , and The New York Times . Born in India, Divakaruni lives near Houston. Back to top. PAST INTERVIEW March 8, 2002 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has won a loyal following with her novels MISTRESS OF SPICES and SISTER OF MY HEART as well as her award-winning short story collection entitled ARRANGED MARRIAGE. In an interview with Bookreporter.com's Sonia Chopra, Divakaruni discusses what prompted her latest novel, THE VINE OF DESIRE.

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5. WaterBridge Review :: Conversation :: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Yes, in some ways it s my most political novel, dealing most directly with an event of national importance and its aftermath. http://www.waterbridgereview.org/092004/cnv_divakaruni_p1.php

home conversations reviews around the rim ... side trips Conversations Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, best-selling author and poet Nirvana by Karthik Ramaswamy WaterBridge Review: In your latest book, Queen of Dreams , your protagonist Rakhi, a young single mother, faces several painful discoveries about her own past history balanced against the horrible events that occurred on 9/11. Would you consider it your most political novel to date? And did writing it help you to sort out your own feelings about what happened? Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Yes, in some ways it's my most political novel, dealing most directly with an event of national importance and its aftermath. Yes, it helped me express the terrible pain I felt after 9/11 because, in addition to suffering the effects of this national tragedy, my community (and other communities like mine that “looked like terrorists”) had to suffer from hate crimes that erupted in so many parts of America. WBR: There is almost always a mystical dimension to your work. Does it have any reflection on your own life? Are you a mistress of spices? CD: I'm not a mistress of spices … more like a handmaiden of words! But I've always been interested in alternate realities and believe that we live in a world where many realities are nestled one within the other—if only we have the sensitivity to experience them.

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9. Literacy Advance Of Houston - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an awardwinning author and poet. Her work is widely known and has been translated into 13 languages. http://www.literacyadvancehouston.org/champions_of_literacy/chitra.asp

Home Students Donors Champions of Literacy ... Van Chancellor featuring Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Award-winning author and poet And Houston's Distinguished Literacy Leaders Unique Industrial Products, Pratham USA, Durga Agrawal Jay Aiyer, Ashok Rao, Sangeeta Gad Emcees Rachel McNeill and Meena Datt June 22, 2007 Hotel Derek Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. Her work is widely known and has been translated into 13 languages. She was born in India and lived there until 1976, at which point she left Calcutta and cme to the United States. Divakaruni currently teaches in the nationally ranked Creative Writing program at the University of Houston. She serves on the board of Maitri in the San Francisco Bay Area and on the Advisory Board of Daya in Houston. She is also on the board of Pratham, an organization that helps educate children in India. Two of her books, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart , have been made into movies by respected filmmakers.

10. Author Spotlight: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Divakaruni was born in Calcutta, India in 1956 where she lived until 1976 before moving to the United States. http://www.ci.escondido.ca.us/library/readers/authors/divakaruni.htm

Search the Catalog My Account/Renewals Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Divakaruni was born in Calcutta, India in 1956 where she lived until 1976 before moving to the United States. She received a Masters in English from Wright University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. She resides in the Bay Area to this day with her husband and two sons and teaches at the Foothill College in Los Altos. Her publications include poetry, short stories, fiction and children's books. Her work is notable for its portrayal of Indian immigrant women in the United States. Critics often remark on her unique and beautiful prose and eye for detail. First-time readers may get a good introduction to this author by sampling her short story collections, Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of Our Lives . In The Mistress of Spices , the author plays with reality a bit as she tells the story of an Indian woman with magic powers who works in grocery store in Oakland, selling customers spices to deal with feelings of homesickness. Sister of My Heart introduces readers to two cousins who with a very close bond. Their story is continued in Banerjee's

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13. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) is Professor of creative writing at Foothill College. Her books include four volumes of poetry, http://weberstudies.weber.edu/archive/archive B Vol. 11-16.1/Vol. 15.1/15.1Divak

Home Archives Reading Room Search ... West Links Winter 1998, Volume 15.1 Fiction Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Crossing Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) is Professor of creative writing at Foothill College. Her books include four volumes of poetry, a collection of short fiction, and the novel The Mistress of Spices, which will soon be made into a film. She is President of Maitri, a South Asian women's helpline. Read an interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni published in Weber Studies 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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Speaking of Stories transforming stories from the page to the stage Who We Are Next Performance Performances Tickets ... Home CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. She was born in India and lived there until 1976, at which point she 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 at Berkeley She lives in Sunnydale with her husband and two children while teaching creative writing at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills CA . Since 1991, she has been the president of MAITRI, a helpline for South Asian women that particularly helps victims of domestic violence and other abusive situations. Much 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. Divakaruni's writing centers around the lives of immigrant women, in love, in difficulties, in relationships. Her interest in women began after she left India , at which point she reevaluated the treatment of women there. Starting MAITRI with a group of friends, led her to write

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18. South Asian American Literature: Chai Room Authors. Chitra Banerjee divakaruni chitra banerjee Divakaruni. Divakaruni is an excellent South Asian poet writer from the S.F. Bay Area. http://alumni.eecs.berkeley.edu/~manish/authors.html

Study Chai Room Garden Launch Pad ... Mailroom Authors Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Divakaruni grew up in India, earned a Ph.D. in English at UC Berkeley, and is currently juggling a professorship at Foothill College, motherhood, and her book tour. I'm not much of a poetry reader and usually find it hard to read poetry unless I find it gripping, evocative, haunting, and calling out to me in personal way. Chitra Divakaruni's poetry is all of this for me. Sonya Pelia Arranged Marriage Black Candle The Reason for Nasturtiums Dark Like the River Vikram Chandra I caught Chandra during his Seattle book tour last year. He was swallowed up by a large black jacket with its sleeves rolled up, and he spoke quietly and with none of the air of the polished storyreader. A few of us took him out to dinner that evening. Seattle lay dark that night, and spaghetti in strange cities always hints at adventure. Chandra was the most animated telling uproarious traveling stories of Mexico. He's a devoted Bombayite (is there any other kind?) and an aspiring film writer. Chandra is very soft-spoken. It took him five years to finish the book, and I could imagine him slaving away at the screen over many a late night, putting aside his programming and his film projects to work on his manuscript. Oh yes, this gifted writer

19. Sister Of My Heart By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni —. (b. 1957) is an author and professor of English at the University of Houston. http://www.itiscannizzaro.net/Ianni/booksweb/books/sisterofmyheart.htm

Sister of my Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (b. 1957) is an author and professor of English at the University of Houston. She was born in Kolkata India . She emigrated to the United States where she attended Wright State University and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her collection of short stories, Arranged Marriages , won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award. Her novel, The Mistress of Spices , was released as a film in 2005. It is directed by Paul Mayeda Berges , with a script by Berges and his wife, Gurinder Chadha . The film stars Aishwarya Rai. In addition, her novel Sister of my Heart was made into a television series in Tamil and aired in India, as Anbulla Snegithiye (Loving Friend) (From Wikipedia, The free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/ The novel 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.

20. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: Queen Of Dreams (2004) In this novel, chitra banerjee divakaruni spins a fresh, enchanting story of transformation that is as lyrical as it is dramatic. http://www.chitradivakaruni.com/books/queen_of_dreams

Home About Background Writing Interviews Readings ... Contact Books The Palace of Illusions (2008) The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming (2005) Queen of Dreams (2004) California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century (2004) ... Queen of Dreams (2004) In this novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni spins a fresh, enchanting story of transformation that is as lyrical as it is dramatic. As Rakhi attempts to divine her identity, knowing little of India but drawn inexorably into a sometimes painful history she is only just discovering, her life is shaken by new horrors. In the wake of September 11, she and her friends must deal with dark new complexities about their acculturation. Haunted by nightmares beyond her imagination, she nevertheless finds unexpected blessings: the possibility of new love and understanding for her family. Praise for Queen of Dreams Denver Post Boston Globe Baltimore Sun San Francisco Chronicle Pittsburgh Tribune Booklist , starred review) Kirkus Reviews Santa Rosa Press Democrat Publishers Weekly

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