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Oleander Girl: A Novel

Oleander Girl: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Beloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a “gifted storyteller” and by People magazine as a “skilled cartographer of the heart.” Now, Divakaruni returns with her most gripping ...
A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Mrs. Dutta ...

A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Mrs. Dutta ...

Gale, Cengage Learning

Banerjee. Divakaruni. 1998. Introduction. Chitra Divakaruni's "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter" was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1998 and was included in Divakaruni's second shortstory collection, The Unknown Errors of Our Lives ( 2001) ...
The Mistress of Spices: A Novel

The Mistress of Spices: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A classic work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the mystical art of spices.
A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Sister of My ...

A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Sister of My ...

Gale, Cengage Learning

in Slate, December 1, 2008, http://www.slate.com/id/2205701/ (accessed June 29 , 2011). Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee, Sister of My Heart, Anchor Books, 2000. Farmanfarmaian, Roxane, “Writing from a Different Place,” in Publishers Weekly,  ...
Queen of Dreams

Queen of Dreams

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation.
The Lives of Strangers

The Lives of Strangers

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Weaving tales of India and of the new settlers in America, Chitra Divakaruni's stories explore themes of solitude, expectations, love and betrayal, as well as other reflections on life in both the East and the West.
A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Meeting Mrinal"

A Study Guide for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Meeting Mrinal"

Gale, Cengage Learning

"Meeting Mrinal" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is the last story in the collection Arranged Marriage, which was published in 1995. Most of the stories in the collection examine the experiences and perspectives of Indian women who have  ...
Leaving Yuba City: New and Selected Poems

Leaving Yuba City: New and Selected Poems

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A collection of poems reflects the daily life and traditions of East Indians living in the United states quot;Ghare Baire.
Oleander Girl: A Novel

Oleander Girl: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Enjoying a sheltered childhood with adoring grandparents but troubled by the silence surrounding her parents' deaths, Korobi is prompted by a love note among her mother's possessions to travel from India to post-9/11 America in search of ...
Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

"A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--
Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Before We Visit the Goddess: A Novel

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texas—an ...
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

As twelve-year-old Anand continues his studies to become a full-fledged member of The Brotherhood of the Conch, he journeys back to Moghul times, where he encounters powerful sorcerers, spoiled princes, noble warriors, and evil jinns.
Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale

Grandma and the Great Gourd: A Bengali Folktale

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Grandma and the Great Gourd is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2013
The Conch Bearer

The Conch Bearer

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

After his family is forced into a life of poverty on the harsh streets of Calcutta and his father goes missing, Anand encounters a stranger who asks him to watch over his magical conch, and that meeting soon leads Anand on an important ...
Shadowland: Book III of the Brotherhood of the Conch

Shadowland: Book III of the Brotherhood of the Conch

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

A search to find the magical conch shell and restore it to its proper home deep in the Himalayas sends Anand and Nisha to the bleak futuristic city of Coal, where the air and water are polluted and the upper classes live in luxury under ...
Black candle: poems about women from India, Pakistan, and ...

Black candle: poems about women from India, Pakistan, and ...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Sumptuous poems about South Asian women from the author of "Mistress of Spices" and "Sister of My Heart."
The Mistress Of Spices

The Mistress Of Spices

Chitra Divakaruni

Compelling and lyrical, full of heady scents and with more than a touch of humour, this novel explores the clash between East and West even as it unveils the universal mysteries of the human heart.
Sister Of My Heart

Sister Of My Heart

Chitra Divakaruni

Steeped in the mysticism of ancient tales, this jewel-like novel shines its light on the bonds of family, on love and loss, against the realities of traditional marriage in modern times.
One Amazing Thing

One Amazing Thing

Chitra Divakaruni

And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness ...
Arranged Marriage

Arranged Marriage

Chitra Divakaruni

The possibility of change, of starting anew, in this stunning beautiful and poignant collection of short stories, is at once terrifying and filled with promise.For those Indian-born women living new lives in America, independence is a mixed ...
Annual review of biochemical and allied research in India

Annual review of biochemical and allied research in India

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... M. A. B Badami, V. K. Bagchi, K. N. Bagchi, S. Baksh, I. Balmokand, A. Banerjea, J. C. Banerjee, B. N. 17, Banerjee, H. N. Banerjee, N. J. Banerjee, S. Banerjee, S. M. Banerji, D. N. Banerji, K. Banerji, K. C. Banerji, L. M. Baptista, E. Bardhan, ...
The Palace of Illusions

The Palace of Illusions

Chitra Divakaruni

The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we are -- finally -- given a woman's take on the timeless tale that is the ...
Frontiers in Magnetic Materials

Frontiers in Magnetic Materials

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[21] A. Bajpai and A. Banerjee, Phys. Rev. B 55 (1997) 12439. [22] A. Bajpai and A. Banerjee, Phys. Rev. B 62 (2000) 8996. [23] A. Bajpai and A. Banerjee, J. Phys .: Condens. Matter 13 (2001) 637. [24] A. Bajpai and A. Banerjee, Rev. Sci.
Mamata Banerjee: My Unforgettable Memories

Mamata Banerjee: My Unforgettable Memories

Mamata Banerjee

10 April 2011. Mamata Banerjee flew out from Kolkata's Race Course helipad towards Habibpur in Malda, officially kicking off her election campaign. That was the beginning. The end came on 20 May, the day she took oath asthe chief minister ...
Textbook of Homoeopathic Pharmacy

Textbook of Homoeopathic Pharmacy

D. D. Banerjee

This Is An Augmented Work Of Dr. Banerjee And Is Complete In All Respects - Right From Introduction, Illustrations, Mechanism, Pharmacopoeias, Development, Scop & Research In Pharmacy.
Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical ...

Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical ...

John M. Jarem

John M. Jarem, Partha P. Banerjee. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42. 43 44 45 46 P.P. Banerjee, H.-L. Yu, D. Gregory, and N. Kukhtarev, Phase conjugation, edge detection and image broadcasting using two-beam coupling in photorefractive ...
One Century of the Discovery of Arsenicosis in Latin America ...

One Century of the Discovery of Arsenicosis in Latin America ...

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Ghosh, P., Banerjee, M., De Chaudhuri, S., Chowdhuri, R., Das, J.K., Mukherjee, A., Sarkar, A.K., Mondal, L.K., Baidya, K., Sau, T.J., Banerjee, A., Basu, A., Chaudhuri, K., Ray, K. & Giri, A.K. 2007 Comparison of health effects between ...
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight ...

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight ...

Abhijit Banerjee

In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground.
Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications

Text Mining: Classification, Clustering, and Applications

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[4] A. Banerjee and S. Basu. Topic models over text streams: A study of batch and online unsupervised learning. In Proceedings of the 7th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 2007. [5] A. Banerjee, I. Dhillon, J. Ghosh, and S. Sra.

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