He embraces the fact that the myths and the ways of the seas/rivers purports the reality of culture, the creation of challenges, fabulation and skilful time shifts, sense of paranoia and hyperreality past the industrial age. Key words: Characterization of Indian Spices, Substantive Relationship of the Protagonist with the Spices as Mistress of Spices, Manifestation of PerceptionsĪmitav Ghosh explores subjectively the people’s consciousness as regards culture, myths and existence.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been able to produce the better meaning of the text and context by characterizing the Spices (Indian Spices representing idealized, magical beings - belonging to India) as non-human beings but also the other human characters for example Raven, an American Tilo, Jagjit, as Immigrant Indians in America many other minor characters belonging to India, but live as immigrants in America.

It also evaluates the importance of spices in socio-cultural perspective of the novel and in psychological perspective in the life of the protagonist. They unify the performance of the protagonist Tilo in an quintessential aspect that Albert Schweitzer has described as “external accomplishment of action with internal world of renunciation” (Times of India, p.8)). The Spices encompass paradoxically the space of both subject and object, being and non-being.

Symbolic spices are shown to have their tangible, perceptible and manifesting relationship with the protagonist. It also depicts the representation of different myths, magic and history related to spices. The Indo-American Woman Writer Divakaruni has given metaphorical representation to the Indian Spices in order to touch upon the knowledge beyond science.

The mistress of spices novel