• PREETI SHARMA
• Dr. Aruna Sharma

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an Indo-American writer. She has won many accolades and awards. Among her novels "The Palace if illusions captures the magical world of epic for its twenty one century readers. The Palace of illusions is a novel which attempts to redraft the epic. Apart from the normal andocentric focuses of the epic. Divakruni's Draupadi becomes the "hero" and offers a gendered description of the epic. She creates a narrative world where Draupadi is feelings and sentiments comes into question and thus she fills up with extraordinary new viewpoint of narration. Draupadi occupies a central stature with all human qualities. The life of Draupadi one of the celebrated women character to the modern times. Divakaruni's novel facilitates in foregrounding Draupadi and thus to conquer the ancient

Gender, Feminism, Identity Myth, social inequalities.

"Image Of The New Draupadi In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace Of Illusions", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no.g455-g460, July-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107793.pdf

"Image Of The New Draupadi In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace Of Illusions", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 7, page no. ppg455-g460, July-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2107793.pdf