Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Clothes: Journey of a Woman

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Ravi Jaiswal

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a poet, novelist and short story writer, known for the works like The Mistress of Spices, Arranged Marriage and The Vine of Desire. Divakaruni mainly writes about Indian Immigrants especially women and their journey to unknown land. In the present paper, I Have taken the short story Clothes from Divakaruni’s collection of short stories Arranged Marriage. This paper focuses on the way Divakaruni uses the image of clothes and colours to depict a women’s journey.

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Ravi Jaiswal. “Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Clothes: Journey of a Woman”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 1, no. 4, Oct. 2016, pp. 20-23, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/396.
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