The contemplation of trivial happenings to the substantial things in life is literature. It delineates a culture or community, their deportment, daily enterprise on the whole. Each and every piece of literature is rational in its way. It leaves the readers to introspection by propagating a cosmic wish. Every writer is unique and futuristic. Indian writing in English possesses a great place in world literature which embodies the cultural and historical nuance. Indian novels are governed by their writer’s more general and social interest while a younger generation is more politically and socially aware of contemporary issues. Women writers especially focus on the matters and issues concerning painful experiences of women and their endurance. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, an Indian –American author is such a writer whose works focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants. Divakaruni has won South Asian Literary Association award, the co-founder and former president of Maitri, a helpline founded in 1991 for South Asian women dealing with domestic abuse. Divakaruni has also served on the Houston board of pratham, a non-profit organization working to bring literacy to disadvantaged Indian children. Divakaruni’s texts are powerful and significant in providing a lens to view the struggle for identity among women and to develop critique of patriarchal structures that organize the life of Indian diaspora. Her novels include Leaving Yuba City, Arranged Marriage, Sister of my Heart, Palace of illusions, Conch Bearer and many more short stories. Her writings were included in 50 anthologies and published in 50 magazines including The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. Divakaruni’s magical novel The Mistress of Spices is short listed for orange prize. The protagonist of the novel is Tilotama owns a spice shop in Oakland, California. She was born in a faraway place into an Indian family. Despite being afflicted by her parents the inborn quality made her to find the unhidden secrets of people which brought fame to her parents. The pirates came to know about her power and they kidnapped her where she became the queen of pirates and later went to the island of spices. She got trained in the art of spices landed in California to set up a spice shop. Tilo was initiated in fire and becomes immortal in the arthritic body of an old woman. Being the mistress she helps the immigrants in America to restore their identity and individuality in their family with the help of spices. Tilo is in dilemma when she falls in love with a lonely American. It eventually forces her to choose between the supernatural life of an immortal and the vicissitudes of modern life. The novel is embodied with myth, magic and fable. When it is scrutinized deep inside lays the diasporic vi