INTERVIEWS AND TALKS, CHITRA DIVAKARUNI: VIDEO AND PRINT
Video: Divakaruni Gives the Freshman Convocation Address at California State University, Northridge, and Discusses the Importance of Storytelling in Creating a Community (Divakaruni's talk begins around 38 minutes into the video)
Video: PBS Interview on Sister of My Heart, Mistress of Spices, and Creative Writing
Video: Gulf Coast Reads Region-wide Kickoff Event for One Amazing Thing
Video:Divakaruni Discusses and Reads from Mistress of Spices, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Video: Q & A with the Florida Center for the Literary Arts
Video: Divakaruni Discusses Her Favorite Poems on PBS Houston
Video: Divakaruni Speaks at IIT Gandhinagar about the Writing Life
AUDIO AND PRINT
Bookbrowse (Discussion of background of Queen of Dreams)
Virtuoso: A Transnational Journal of Language and Literature (Discussion of social issues in Divakaruni’s novels)
SAJA Forum Audio Interview (General interview on new South Asian Journalists Association website)
Critical Mass (Response to literary questions in National Book Critics Circle Blog)
Desilit (Interview on being a South Asian author)
Far Sector (Interview with Shaun Farrell on Queen of Dreams and Conch Bearer)
The Telegraph, India (Interview on upcoming film adaptation of The Mistress of Spices)
The Bloomsbury Review (Interview on Queen of Dreams)
Waterbridge Review (Interview on Queen of Dreams)
Nirali (Profile)
Eye on Books Audio Interview (Interview on Queen of Dreams)
Atlantic Monthly Online: Imagined Homelands (Interview on Queen of Dreams)
Scott Rettburg Chat (Interview with a professor in Norway who teaches Divakaruni’s work)
Bookreporter (Two Interviews on the writing process, the Vine of Desire, and Sister of My Heart)
Curled Up with a Good Book (Interview on Queen of Dreams)
Barnes & Noble Studio (Audio Interview on writing and Queen of Dreams)
Rediff (Discussion of childrens’ books, teaching, Indian-American community)
Writer’s Roundtable [ segments 123 ] (Online radio interview, requires Windows Media Player)
AsianWeek (Profile and interview on Asian American writing)
Take Our Daughters to Work: Women of Power (Profile and interview)
Time (Profile)
Little India (Profile and interview by Robbie Clipper Sethi)
Holt Uncensored (Patricia Holt, Book Editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, interviews Divakaruni as part of the City Arts Lecture at Herbst Theater)
SAJA (Profile by Arthur Pais of India Today)
Atlantic Monthly Online (A discussion on writing)
Metroactive (Profile)
Homespun (A conversation on poetry with Erika Bauer)
