Best quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Culture

Checkout quotes by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Culture

  • 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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  • I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.
    - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • I have a variety of readers from across the diasporic community, not just from South Asia. I like to write large stories that include all of us - about common and cohesive experiences which bring together many immigrants, their culture shocks, transformations, concepts of home and self in a new land.
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  • The ancient world is always accessible, no matter what culture you come from. I remember when I was growing up in India and I read the 'Iliad' and the 'Odyssey.'
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  • India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.
    - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni