Tilo and Spices: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banergee Divakaruni

Abstract

This paper seeks to outline ecofeminism in India in terms of both activism and fiction that explicitly foreground women. I also state that women‟s relationship to the environment is ambivalent, thus disputing the dualism of nature/culture and yet straddling the grey area between these two binaries. This is particularly highlighted by Indian women writing fiction in English. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in her diasporic work .The Mistress of Spices talks about the inseparable relation between women and nature.