![]() ![]() It offers a new interpretation of the voice of Draupadi as depicted by the novelist. ![]() Married to five royal husbands who have been. Our paper is a sincere attempt to explore myth and modernity clashing with each other to give birth to a new face. Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, as she weaves a vibrant retelling of an ancient epic saga. Draupadi's life seeks to break the shackles of stereotypical concept of how women can be women. It shows how a woman born as a princess suffered in her life. Whether it is ancient or the modern period the life of women has not had any changes,it has had only challenges to face and act according to the context. ![]() It has its own charm to and hold on the reader. ![]() Her determination and courage has been explained all through the novel. The views of Draupadi are totally different from these of ordinary women and the outcomes are as powerful as she is. The humiliation that went through is given as the challenges of life.Draupadi's life shows in the epic how women need to accept the concept of tradition and culture without any questions. Divakaruni's novel The Palace of Illusions, the re-telling of Vyasa's The Mahabharata has uniqueness of its own.The Palace of Illusions is about women discrimination, their struggles, identity, male domination, unique female perspectives and position of women during the period of The Mahabharata. The Palace of Illusions: A Novel is a 2008 novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, published by Doubleday. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni holds a prominent place in Indian English Writing. ![]()
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