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Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 29
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Short Story Writer
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Calcutta
Chitralekha Banerjee
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Chili
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