A kshatriya woman's highest purpose in life is to support the warriors in her life: her father, brother, husband and sons.

After 9/11, there was so much distress in America that it led to an inter-cultural breakdown. Some of our communities were targeted. Many of our adults shut themselves off from other cultures. I tried to bring children of Indian and other cultures together in my literature.

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Quotes