Depiction Of Indian Cultural Heritage In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Sister Of My Heart And The Vine Of Desire

Abstract

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, a leading writer of the Indian Diaspora marches forward with courage and with firm matches the pace of the world.  She is a stalwart builder in connecting between East and West, conventions and changes and ethics and freedom in her works.  Her novels Sister of My Heart and The Vine of Desire deal with cultural alienation, patriarchal structures and traditional Indian society.  Her novel Sister of My Heart is depicted with a different perception where a woman becomes a heart of the other woman.  The Vine of Desire is a sequel to Sister of My Heart.  This article has attempted to delineate the cultural nuggets and the wretched conditions of women in patriarchal society.