Bharathi Mukherjee

Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940) was born in Calcutta and moved to Britain with family in the year of Independence. She did her graduation from the Universities of Calcutta and Baroda, and later from the University of Iowa after she moved to USA in 1961.

While studying in the US, she met and married a Canadian writer Clark Blaise, with whom she has co-authored two books of non-fiction. She is currently a professor in the University of California at Berkeley.

Primarily two themes can be discerned in Bharati Mukherjee's works. One is the immigrant experience and the feeling of alienation as an expatriate. The other is the (mal) treatment of women in Indian society owing to the overburdening expectation to conform to societal norms and tradition.

Works

• The Tiger's Daughter
• Wife
• Kautilya's Concept of Diplomacy: A New Interpretation
• Days and Nights in Calcutta
• An Invisible Woman
• Darkness
• The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy
• The Middleman and Other Stories
• Jasmine
• Political Culture and Leadership in India
• Regionalism in Indian Perspective
• The Holder of the World
• Leave It to Me