Since time immemorial, it has successfully glorified righteous warfare, protection of family honour and an unwavering devotion to one’s elders. The Mahabharata is an awe-inspiring and timeless epic that has achieved a degree of sacrality in the Indian context. She currently lives in Houston with her husband Murthy and two sons – Anand and Abhay- and keeps in frequent contact with her readers through her social media platforms. Her work has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Known widely for her exemplary work, “ The Palace of Illusions”, she has received several awards – the Crawford Award (1998) and The American Book Award (1996), The O’Henry Prize Stories, San Francisco Chronicle’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Mahima Mukherjee reviews Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions and observes how the author puts a captivating spin on this great epic by narrating it from Draupadi’s perspective – the woman who had started it all.Ĭhitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indian-American author, poet, and Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
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The development of the novel, as outlined by Pamuk, then seems interestingly different from the process of writing which Pamuk spoke of in his Nobel acceptance speech: And when something didn’t work, I understood that I had to intervene.” I saw the expression on their face, if they wee satisfied. I made my brother Sevket, who is an economist, check that dates and numbers were correct. I made my ex-wife read the book, who is a history teacher, my daughter, my editors. There were repetitions, or characters that appeared surprisingly after having been mentioned two hundred pages before. Two people, my personal assistant and an editor at the Turkish publishing houlse reviewed everything for months. For a long period I continued to copy-edit. Then, in the final phase, I paid a lot of attention to details. I reflected on it, and I worked around it. The idea for the drama and its development had already come about ten years ago. The last one, Istanbul, which brought me such good luck, was in 2002. Orhan Pamuk is interviewed in the latest edition of Venerdi di Repubblica magazine, here in Italy, and discusses the lengthy writing process he undertook for his new novel The Museum of Innocence, which will be published later this year (the Turkish version coming first, will be unveiled at this year’s Frankfurt book fair, where Turkey will be guest of honour). What then is the real goal of salvation? Let us find out as we look now at our passage of Scripture in 2 Corinthians 3:18 – “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” But it does not follow that this is the goal of salvation. Now, it is true that salvation does accomplish that, and that we should preach the gospel widely out of compassion for the lost. 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