An Eternal Tie : Celebrating the Strength of Sisterhood

Authors

  • K.Shakila Banu PG & Research Department of English, Jamal Mohamed College (Autonomous),Tiruchirappalli – 620020

Keywords:

Sisterly bonding-conjoined butterflies, dark secret-blood relation revelation, marriage challenges-not a bed of roses, healing hearts, unbreakable bond, heart whelming feel.

Abstract

This paper explores the artistic kinship between the two sisters from the novel “Sister Of My Heart”, the second novel by the most eminent and diasporic Indian born American writer Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, which got published in the year 1999. This novel comprises of two volumes - each of twenty chapters.The first book - “Princess in the Palace of Snakes” and the second book - “The Queen of Swords”.Chitraji has eloquently highlighted the strong and lovely bonding between the two sisters Anju and Sudha, who are not actually related by blood but beautifully connected by hearts.The story is first set in Calcutta(India) and later in California(America).Book 1 pictures the colorful life of the sisters’ evolution literally like conjoined butterflies.Unfortunately,the truth gets revealed that they were cousins and not blood related sisters.Book 2 begins with the marriage life of the sisters which did not seem as a bed of roses for them.Though their hearts were separated by a huge distance after wedding, their fates reunite them.No cracks and flaws can separate the unbreakable bond between these sisters. This novel gives the reader a promising heart whelming feel due to the pure love shared between the hearts of the charming sisters.

References

Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Sister of My Heart. New York: Anchor Books, 1999

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1999) “What Women Share,” Bold Type, February 19, Issue 1999.

Sheila Kumar (2006) “The Suspicious Sisterhood, 40” in ‘Voice for Female Bonding’, 1 May, 2006.

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Tharoor, Shashi. The Great Indian Novel. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1989.

Published

2024-09-13

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 3 (2024): Jamal Academic Research Journal-An Interdisciplinary (JARJ)

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