DIASPORIC IDENTITY: MIRRORING CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI

Born in Calcutta and mostly educated at Calcutta University and Wright State University in Dayton, Berkley, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni belongs to the group of of Diasporic writers who explore the conditions of Diasporic realities; the phenomenon of isolation, alienation, cultural heterogeneity, expatriation, syncretism, dialogisms and hybridity in identity and their relationship with phenomenon of the world. She has been a sensitive woman, a consummate artist, a visionary endowed with exceptional human sensibility and innovative vision. The paper in context seeks to explore the dimensions of diasporic sensibility in some of Divakaruni’s seminal books which further gives rise to intellectual curiosity.