Sisterhood’ in Chitra Banerjee’s ‘Sisters of my Heart’

“A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” Isadora James Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, a post colonialist giant of Indian literature noticed that unlike the male heroes, the women never had any important women friends. This theme eventually became the core point to Divakaruni writing. Most analyses and portrayals of women's relationships, even by women, have in fact tended to emphasize not female bonding, but female antagonism, not ‘Sisterhood' but women as women's worst enemy. On the contrary, women have so much to offer one another but our history is one of mutual inhibition. It is one of the inexorable tragedies of human nature.