Indian - Author | 1956 -
With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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I am a Hindu, brought up mostly in India.
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We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
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Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
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It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.
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As I've written more, and as other Indian American voices have grown around me, I strive harder to find experiences that are unique yet a meaningful and resonant part of the American story.
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I have a lot of respect and love for children's books.
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I've been interested in dreams myself for a long time, and it's a big part of the Indian tradition, especially where I was brought up in Calcutta in my family, which is quite traditional.
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In Western dream interpretation, it's often connected to psychotherapy and looking at the personality and what's going on in your life. In Eastern dream telling, many times there's this idea of a special gift. And without this gift, you could study and study, but you'd never really become an effective dream teller.
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In many immigrant families, the parents are just talking and talking about the home country until the children are like, 'Oh, don't tell us any more.'
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I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.
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