• J. NASREEN BANU

This paper analyses the voyage of the immigrants to the west and their challenging life in an alien land. The twenty first century has become a global village and with technological and travel advancement, criss crossing the global village has become a regular affair. Crossing the Atlantic is associated with financial benefits and hence many eastern citizens dare to cross the seas knowing it would lead to unendurable conflicts. Settling in a foreign country entails, disturbing the mind, body and soul of the people who are rooted to their tradition and culture. In other words one has to uproot oneself to drift along in the target culture and tradition. Drifting negates stability and therefore he or she has to consciously reroot himself or herself in the foreign country. Consequently the body gets rerooted in the foreign culture but the mind and the soul frustratingly refuse to get rerooted; so the process of rerooting becomes incomplete and hence the rise of innumerable conflicts. Balancing the conflicts in uprooting and rerooting requires extraordinary mental strength and mental grooming in which Divakaruni’s characters try their best to blow off the blues as their stay is their choice towards greener pastures.

Uprooting, Rerooting, Diaspora and Nostalgia

"Dilemmas of Uprooting and Rerooting with reference to the character Tilo in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress Of Spices ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.125-133, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905O20.pdf

"Dilemmas of Uprooting and Rerooting with reference to the character Tilo in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress Of Spices ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp125-133, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905O20.pdf