Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian American author, poet and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Houston, USA. She is well known for poetry, short-story writing, children’s fictions and novels. Her short story collection Arranged Marriage won American Book Award in 1995. She has written more than fifteen books and her fiction has been translated into 29 languages including Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Bengali, Turkish and Japanese. Her major novels include The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Queen of Dreams, One Amazing Thing, Palace of Illusions, Oleander Girl, Vine of Desire and Before We Visit the Goddess. Divakaruni deals with the theme of racial and religious discrimination, shifting identities and cultural assimilation. Her each novel reflects racial discrimination and quest for identity of South Asian Immigrants. Through the novels Queen of Dreams and One Amazing thing Divakaruni portrays racial and religious discrimination as social evils in all over the world. The present paper aims to message to all to stop discrimination on the basis of race, religion, culture and language. Human beings need to change the society in order to establish peace throughout the world.
Research Scholar, Department of English, Magadh University, Bodh-Gaya
