Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, a postcolonial Indian diasporic writer, known for her individualistic styles, themes and techniques focuses most of her writings on the various issues confronted by women immigrants in America. She portrays gender issues, social inequalities and ideological structures of Indian and American societies. Divakaruni pitches her texts in familiar areas of Indian womanhood for whom motherhood and sisterhood hold much weight. Being an expatriate woman writer, she portrays the lives of women, their loss, alienation, assimilation and acculturation in the diasporic realm....