Draupadi, also referred to as Krishnā, Panchali, and Yajñaseni, is the main female protagonist of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, and the wife of the five Pandava brothers—Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. She is noted for her beauty, courage, and polyandrous marriage.
Gurinder Chadha, is a Kenyan-born Indo-British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. The common theme among her work showcases the trials of Indian women living in the UK and how they must reconcile their converging traditional and modern cultures. Although many of her films seem like simple quirky comedies about Indian women, they actually address many social and emotional issues, especially ones faced by immigrants caught between two worlds.
Paul Mayeda Berges is an American screenwriter and director. He is known for his work on films such as 2002's Bend It Like Beckham.
Bones of the Moon is a novel by American writer Jonathan Carroll, depicting the real and dream life of a young woman. Like many of Carroll's works, it straddles the horror and fantasy genres.
The Mistress of Spices, (1997), set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
The Mistress of Spices is a 2005 American romantic drama film by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha and Berges. It is based upon the 1997 novel Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The film stars Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott. The soundtrack was created by Craig Pruess, who also contributed to the Bend It Like Beckham soundtrack.
Writers Workshop is a Kolkata-based literary publisher founded by the Indian poet and scholar Purushottama Lal in 1958. It has published many new Indian authors of post-independence urban literature. Many of these authors later became widely known.
Anu Haasan is an Indian actress and TV anchor. She made her film debut in the critically acclaimed Indira (1995) and has since appeared in many Tamil films, playing minor roles. She hosted the celebrity talk show Koffee with Anu on the Tamil channel Vijay for three seasons.
South Asian Americans or Desi Americans are Americans of South Asian ancestry. The term generally excludes Afghanistan, referring specifically to those who can trace back their heritage to the Indian subcontinent, which includes the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The South Asian American diaspora also includes generations of South Asians from other areas in the world who then moved to the United States, areas such as Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mauritius, Singapore, Malaysia, Suriname, other parts of the Caribbean, etc. In the United States census they are a subcategory of Asian Americans, although individual racial classification is based on self-identification and the categorization is "not an attempt to define race biologically, anthropologically, or genetically".
The Jaipur Literature Festival, or JLF, is an annual literary festival which takes place in the Indian city of Jaipur each year in the month of January. It was founded in 2006.
Girls of Many Lands is a series of books from the American Girl collection introduced in 2002. Each story is about a 12-year-old girl living in a different time period in different parts of the world. The books, written by award-winning authors, originally came with a matching doll intended for display. The series was discontinued in 2005 and the dolls have become a popular collectible item.
The Conch Bearer is a fantasy novel written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Sister of My Heart is a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. First published in 1999, this novel was followed in 2002 by a sequel The Vine of Desire.
The Palace of Illusions: A Novel is a 2008 novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Doubleday.
Padma Desai was an Indian-American development economist who was the Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of comparative economic systems and director of the Center for Transition Economies at Columbia University. Known for her scholarship on Soviet and Indian industrial policy, she was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009.
One Amazing Thing is a 2009 novel by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. It was first published in the United States in Voice by Hyperion in 2009, and later in Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India in 2010.
Mathis Z'Aire Bailey is an American–Canadian author and fiction writer based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mera Naseeb is a Pakistani television series inspired by the English novel Sister of My Heart by Indian author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni while screenplay was written by Samira Fazal. It originally broadcast on Hum TV from 1 April 2011 to 21 August 2011. The serial has an ensemble cast of Syra Yousuf, Sanam Saeed, Imran Abbas, Adeel Hussain, Sakina Samo, Samina Peerzada, Rubina Ashraf, Imran Aslam and Bushra Ansari. The story revolves around the two half sisters who born at same time and their fate is bounded by a family secret.
The Last Queen is a book based on the life of Maharani Jind Kaur last queen of Punjab. It is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Independence: A Novel is a novel written by author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, and published on 30 November 2022 by HarperCollins. It tells the story of India’s independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws.
