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Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The contemplation of trivial happenings to the strong things in life is books. It delineates a culture or community, their deportment, daily enterprise on the whole. each(prenominal) and every piece of literature is rational in its way. It leaves the readers to self-examination by propagating a cosmic wish. Every writer is anomalous and futuristic. Indian writing in English possesses a long place in human race literature which embodies the cultural and historic nuance. Indian unuseds are governed by their writers more(prenominal) general and social wager while a young generation is more politically and socially aware of modern-day issues. Women writers especially reduce on the matters and issues concerning painful experiences of women and their endurance.\nChitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an Indian American author is such a writer whose works focus on the experiences of South Asiatic immigrants. Divakaruni has won South Asian Literary Association award, the co-founder and designer president of Maitri, a helpline founded in 1991 for South Asian women transaction with domestic abuse. Divakaruni has also served on the Houston board of pratham, a non-profit presidential term working to bring literacy to disadvantage Indian children. Divakarunis texts are powerful and significant in providing a lens to conceive the struggle for identity among women and to word critique of patriarchal structures that conspire the life of Indian diaspora. Her novels imply Leaving Yuba City, Arranged Marriage, child of my Heart, Palace of illusions, Conch Bearer and umpteen more short stories. Her belles-lettres were included in 50 anthologies and published in 50 magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and The tender Yorker.\nDivakarunis magical novel The Mistress of Spices is short listed for orange prize. The protagonist of the novel is Tilotama owns a spice shop in Oakland, California. She was born in a faraway place into an Indian family. Despite being smit ten by her parents the inborn...

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