Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of the popular authors in Indian Writing in English. She has portrayed her characters with different motifs such as magical realism, identity crisis and agony of displacement which are some of the major concerns of the characters. Male characters are not prominent in her works. Divakaruni’s fictional world flourishes with the tangling complexities of life, especially the life within the social structure of a family. Chitra Banerjee has explained the ways in which woman is economically, socially or politically oppressed in the society and how she breaks away from the constraints of the society and emerges as ‘New Woman’. She not only portrays the position of woman in society but also the ambitions, fears and anxieties of the modern woman. The style chosen by her in her writings is to empower women. Divakaruni depicts the picture of Indian women through her own experience and from the vast canvass of the other Indian woman. The women struggled to oppose the rigid rules and regulations limited to woman in the society. The protagonists Anju and Sudha, and their mothers are able to re-discover themselves through the various trials and tribulations, and thereby assert their identity. The novel depicts the power of sisterhood, which is the tower of strength for all women in the novel. Chitra Banerjee beautifully projected the kaleidoscopic layer at woman personality. This paper explores the Revolutionary roles of women characters: Anju, Sudha, Gauri Ma and Nalini played in the novel. They successfully brought the modern outlook by neglecting the age-old rigid male dominated rules and regulations.
Keywords: magical realism, identity crisis, modern woman, empower women, woman personality etc.
