Bharati Mukherjee

Mukherjee is a nonfiction-writer and journalist who currently works as a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Berkeley. The Tiger's Daughter, Wife, Darkness, an Invisible Woman are some of her popular novels and her works gives an insight into the Indian culture and immigrant experience. Most of her characters are Indian women, who were victims of racism and sexism and she also discusses about cultural clashes and undercurrents of violence in her novels. Her work ‘Middleman and Other Stories’ won her the National Book Critics Circle Award in the year 1988.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Divakurni is an author and poet whose areas of interest include spirituality, women, immigration, the South Asian experience, history, myth, magic and celebrating diversity. Her books, Arranged Marriage, The Mistress of Spices and Sister of my Heart were widely accepted by readers and the last two were adapted into movies as well. She won the American Book Award for ‘Arranged Marriage’ in the year 1995.She also works as the Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.