• Dr. Shanthi Shenoy S

Human Values are a certain series of virtues governing individuals in doing what is right and acceptable by society. Literature, a creative art, is a study of stories and novels and is looked upon as a key means of vision for mankind’s existence in the modern world. Stories and novels oblige the readers to find morals in them as values are closely associated with human lives. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s fictions are mostly her personal experiences as an Indian immigrant in America. Her novels are set in India and America with themes like alienation, nostalgia, discrimination, feminism, modernism, east-west conflict, multiculturalism, identity crisis, and human relationships. Divakaruni initiated writing to scrutinize the immigrant feminine experience she ran into. Her first novel, The Mistress of Spices, is about an Indian girl who has magical powers. The subject matter of her novels is women’s problems, family life, exile, alienation, exoticism, ethnicity, domesticity love, humanity, care, and Romance. This article concentrates on compassion along with harmony across diversity, segregation, and inequalities in numerous situations in The Mistress of Spices of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. The issue of identity, expression, and values from humanity’s background in the novel is also identified through this piece of writing.

compassion, spices, identity, value, human lives.

"Reassuring Compassion in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 4, page no.n256-n263, April-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404D30.pdf

"Reassuring Compassion 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.11, Issue 4, page no. ppn256-n263, April-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2404D30.pdf