The artistic poet that Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, originally Chitralekha Banerjee, born on 29 July 1956, in Calcutta, is an Indian-American author, poet, and speaker. She has written novels, poems, and prose that deal with contemporary American and Indian lifestyles, experiences and challenges faced by women, immigration, mythology, and retelling of mythology, and history. She has won numerous awards like the American Book Award, Light of India Award, Houston Literary Award, Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and Premio Scanno to list a few. Chitra Banerjee is also an activist for education and domestic violence. She is part of many organizations which work for the benefit of the underprivileged and victims of abuse. The majority of the poems written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni deal with patriarchy. She has painted patriarchy as a dominant force, property rights, controlled by the father then, husband, the urge for a son, and women’s efforts for the sake of the husband even at the cost of their own mental and