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Starlink is SpaceX's huge and ever-growing constellation of broadband satellites. ![]() 10 weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites SpaceX launches 1st batch of new 'V2 mini' Starlink satellites to orbit ![]() ![]() ![]() To achieve this end, Divakaruni resorts to tweaking the incidents, filling in the minor gaps that she spots and inventing Draupadi’s psyche, but unlike some other authors, she stays loyal, in the main, to the original storyline and sentiment of Mahabharata as told first of all by Vyasa in Sanskrit. Her task is rather tedious as the key protagonist Draupadi is bound by the shackles of a patriarchal society that reveres only a pativrata (subservient to husband only) woman, and also by individual predicament that makes her the wife of five brothers. In this impressive re-telling, she aims at realizing a feminist picture of Draupadi to fit into the contemporary socio-psychological context. ![]() ![]() Her novel The Palace of Illusions centres around Draupadi, the female protagonist of Mahabharata. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is a well-known novelist of Indian origin. It has, in addition, religious value as Lord Krishna is one of the protagonists. ![]() Mahabharata, one of the two most famous ancient epics of India (the other being Ramayana) is a virtual sea of stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. In 1931, Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. ![]() In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. ![]() ![]() ![]() His ancestors had been brought from Southern China to Canada as coolies, and (we assume) worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway under indentured labor. ![]() It was also around this time that I met my now-fiancé, and learned of his family history. This led me to begin asking questions: what if Anastasia had somehow survived? What if she wasn’t your typical beautiful, graceful princess, but instead a monster reviled by society? And what if I created a story exploring the downfall of Russia’s monarchy and the dark sides of an imperial dynasty? 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