Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Blog, page 11

Takes a Village

So tonight is my very first author chat on my Facebook page--and all you amazing readers are warmly invited to participate! Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chitra-....

Anyone who joins the page can take part in the chat.  Just post your comments & questions on the wall, and I'll answer. You'll have to be patient because I'm not the most tech-savvy person. (But my wonderful webmaster, Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of bookfinder.com, and his equally wonder

Takes a Village

So tonight is my very first author chat on my Facebook page--and all you amazing readers are warmly invited to participate! Here's the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chitra-....

Anyone who joins the page can take part in the chat.  Just post your comments & questions on the wall, and I'll answer. You'll have to be patient because I'm not the most tech-savvy person. (But my wonderful webmaster, Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of bookfinder.com, and his equally wonder

A Challenge

Ok, you folks are really good at figuring out the quotations I've been putting into the blog, so here's a more difficult one: "It is only the story . . . that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence."

I'll give you 2 hints.
1. It's by an African writer--a really amazing one
2. I used the quote as an epigraph in one of my novels

Feel free to challenge me with your favorite quotations!

Cauliflower-Cumin Curry or, a Little of this and a Lot of that

So Karen asked for a recipe, and here's one.

 I should confess up front that I'm not a gourmet cook, not even close. My long-suffering family will vouch to that. When my two boys were little, I felt ambitious and American one Thanksgiving and made mashed potatoes from scratch. Took me hours.  Afterwards, the boys asked me, very politely, Mom, from next time may we please have the kind from the box? (Okay, so mine were a little lumpy).
Once I got over my smarting ego, that was just fine with me!

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Of Cylinders and Axes

The other day I was flying back from Ithaca. The weather had been bad; for a while I didn't know if the plane would take off. When it finally did, I gave a sigh of relief, opened my book (like most people, I carry one when traveling) and started to read. About half an hour later, the sun was in my eyes, bothering me. I was about to pull down the window covering when I happened to look out.
The scene was literally breathtaking. I was eye-level with a sun that was setting blood-orange over a bank

In the Beginning there was Amazement

I confess. I'm a Virgin Blogger.
No. Not that kind.
But because this is my first blog ever.
I'm excited. Maybe a little nervous.
I welcome feedback.
Especially feedback that begins with "Dearest Author, I love everything you write."

In my blog I'm going to discuss things that I find amazing in the world.
I hope it'll be a real discussion, that you'll write back with things you find amazing, too.

I chose this topic partly because I'm working on a novel titled One Amazing Thing.
 And partly because I thi