Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: ‘I never thought I’d be a writer’

Award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, whose recent book The Last Queen is soaring up the bestselling charts, tells of the immigrant’s life that inspired her critically acclaimed debut novel, and how writing about Sita from the Indian epic changed her life

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Chitra wanted to follow in the footsteps of her mother, a teacher, and “for the first 20 years of my life, I never wrote anything”
Chitra wanted to follow in the footsteps of her mother, a teacher, and “for the first 20 years of my life, I never wrote anything”
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