Contents: 1. Cultural clash and separation in Chitra banerjee Divakaruni's stories/Aju Mukhopadhyay. 2. Use of fantasy against the realistic themes: a study of Chitra Bnerjee Divakaruni's fictional writings/Santwana Haldar. 3. The palace of illusions: an alternative narrative/Anantha Vijayah. 4. Identity in Divakaruni's the mistress of spices/Dwijen Sharma. 5. The mistress of spices: the magical and the real/Mukta Sharma. 6. Transforming feminine constrictions: a study of the palace of illusions and Yajnaseni/Devika Khanna Narula. 7. The dilemma of be-longing in the fictions of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni/Sumana Gupta. 8. Exposing subjugation of women: a critical analysis of the palace of illusions/Aditi Paul and Poonam Pahuja. 9. Cinematic adaptation vs tradaptation: case of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's mistress of spices in Indian Cinema/Joya Chakravarty and Preeti Sharma. 10. Confronting stereotypes: struggle for identity in Oleander Girl/Nivedita V Bedadur. 11. East-West encounter in the mistress of spices/S. Somasundari Latha. 12. Mythologization of reality in Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices and Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Some Observations/Maciej Karasinski. 13. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Jhumpa Lahiri: Genuinely Similar, Genuiney Different/Prachi Sathe and Mamata Paithankar. 14. Re-visiting the myth of Draupadi: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's the palace of illusions/Papiya Lahiri. 15. Depiction of female characters in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's arranged marriage: an analysis/Yusuf Mehdi. 16. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's before we visit the Goddess: a narrative study/Swati Kumari. 17. Indianism and feminism in the Canons of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Shashi Deshpande: a comparative study/Ujjwala Kakarla. 18. Magic realism in the Conch Bearer/Parul Mishra. 19. Narrative techniques in Oleander Girl/Madhavi Lata Agrawal. 20. Beyond silence: a textual analysis of The Palace of Illusion by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in the Light of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own/Priti Bala Sharma. 21. Medusa Laughing: A magical Feminist Reading of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of spices and Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate/Sneha Christall. 22. Where Dreams Come true: Studying Oleander Girl as a Fairy Tale/Aditi Deo Deol. 23. Depiction of domestic Violence in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "The Bats"/Zeba Mehdi and Smita Mishra. 24. Quest for Freedom in Chitra Banerjee's Divakaruni victory Song/Subhajit Bhadra.