Look Inside Reading Guide. Feb 10, Pages Buy. Feb 10, Pages. A writer to watch. Moreover, Divakaruni masterfully describes the lyrical beauty of Indians and the elegant logic of Hinduism. It is particularly refreshing to read an author who breaks chhitra mold as clearly as Divakaruni does….

A creative, illuminating feminist work that compels us to re-examine the original text…. Brimming with betrayals, religious fervor and war-torn streets, The Palace of Illusions is a journey experienced from the vantage point of Panchaali, a powerful woman dfiven by love, honor and, in the end, a fate that unfolds despite her resolve.

Divakaruni has triumphantly fulfilled a profound mission. Whether or not readers are familiar with the Mahabharat epic, still fascinating and relevant several millennia on, they will enjoy this entertaining, insightful civakaruni suspenseful story. Recommended for all fiction collections. The story is complex, as political relationships grow and develop, and friends and enemies are created, leading to battles and wars that will eventually destroy them all.

I was captivated by the tragic storyline and the fate into which Panchaali was born.

Her women are desperate, wonderful, complicated, lyrical, memorable, even magical…. Now, in a daring novel out this month, Banerjee Divakaruni returns to a fantastic world, inhabited by kings, queens, villains and sorcerers. An ambitious project effectively executed. Questions for Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Q: Some readers of The Palace of Illusions will be encountering the Mahabharat for the first time.

Please explain exactly what it is and what significance it has in Indian culture. Are there any analogous texts in Western literature? It is a very famous story. Most people in India, even those who cannot read or write, would know this story of a great war because it is passed on orally from generation to generation. Like the Iliad, the Mahabharat has literally hundreds of characters and tells the complicated, fascinating story of a great war.

There are numerous female characters in the Mahabharat. For me, she has always been the most interesting and unusual character. Her birth, her destiny that was foretold when she was born, her insistence on doing what none of the other women around her were doing and her unique situation—being married to five brothers—all made her the perfect choice.

I was also interested in the fact that in some ways she was the catalyst for the great war—and perhaps the one who suffered the most as a result of it. Panchaali, in traditional readings of her part in the story, is often seen as something of a villainess or at least as a character whose actions bring about the downfall of many others.

You see her differently. Have other characters in literature similarly sparked your interest? It would be more correct to say Panchaali is a controversial character, rather than a villainess.

I always felt that there was more to her story than the usual male-centric readings allowed. What would have led her to say and do the things she said and did. I also wanted to bring out the difficulties she faced—how in her way she was as heroic as any of her husbands. I wanted to do something similar—make readers see Panchaali in a whole different way. Although Panchaali is married to five brothers at once and cares for each of them, she is secretly in love with a sixth man, the great and mysterious warrior king Karna.

And by the end of the novel, we learn that perhaps her greatest love was someone else altogether.

Is romantic love important to Panchaali? Do her views change over time? How does love figure in the Mahabharat and what wisdom on the subject does it have to impart to modern-day readers? Love is very important in the Mahabharat. But the idea of love I wanted to explore is vast and not dicakaruni to romantic love, although certainly romantic love is very important to Panchaali—both the marital love she tries to reach with her husbands, and the forbidden love she holds unspoken inside herself all her life.

The protective love she feels for her brother lf very important in this novel, as well as the regretful love she feels toward her sons—but too late. The love she feels for her nurse—the only mother she knows—is also significant. Most important is the spiritual love she discovers at the end of her life. I just want readers to think about the wealth of kllusions that is possible in our lives—in so many guises—and how it can transform us.

Opposed to love in the novel is vengeance—and whenever it overpowers love, the result is disastrous. So I guess I want readers to think about the cost of vengeance, too. Many of your novels, including this one, deal in a matter-of-fact way with the spiritual, mystical, and magical in everyday life.

The Palace of Illusionslike the Mahabharatis set in a half — magical world populated by gods and sages who have supernatural powers as well as by humans, some of whom manage to harness magical powers for their own gains though generally not without consequences.

What is the place of magic in Indian culture?

Palace of Illusions Excerpt — Chitra Divakaruni

My own view—influenced by my culture—is that the universe we live in is a magical one. It exists on many levels. The world that we perceive with our senses and understand with logic is only the most obvious level. The other levels are available to us—but we have to attune ourselves to them. Those are the levels I explore in many of my novels, which are peopled with characters who, for one reason or another, have gained access to them.

On its most subtle level, the world is spiritual in nature. That is what Panchaali comes to understand at divakarunni end of her life.

A bloody civil war between brothers is central to the plot in The Palace of Illusions. Although the story is an ancient one, it will resonate with a great many American women today whose own husbands and children are at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Was this part of the reason you chose to re — tell this section divakkaruni the Mahabharat?

Does the Mahabharat advocate peaceful resolution to conflicts or illusikns it more complicated than that? What about your own feelings about war? Yes, one of the reasons I was attracted to re—telling the story of the Mahabharat is that unfortunately we continue to live in a war-torn world. Americans today—men and women both—are certainly feeling the effects of war.

So are people in many other countries. War is particularly hard on mothers—seeing the life that came out of your illusionw body being maimed or destroyed is devastating.

Yudhisthir goes into a long—lasting depression when he considers what has happened to the earth and to society as a result of the carnage he has helped bring about. In this novel I wanted to focus on the immense and debilitating costs of war, and as we are re—learning to our sorrow in this country right now how easy it is to begin a war and how hard to end it.

In the Mahabharat—as in most epics—the attitude to war is a complicated one. Mine is more simple. Like Mahatma Gandhi, a man I greatly admire, I believe in non violence as the best method of resistance.

What role does illusion play in the Mahabharat? I hope the readers will be as fascinated by it—and by the idea of needing to belong, the idea of home that haunts Panchaali throughout the novel—as I am.

Yes, the novel is full of illusions just as it is full of palaces. Panchaali has many illusions about who she is—and so do the other characters. Is what Panchaali believes about romantic love an illusion? I want readers to draw their own conclusions—and, I hope, examine some of their own divvakaruni.

Ultimately the novel—and Indian spiritual philosophy—suggests that this entire world is an illusion, is Maya—and invites the reader to contemplate the true, unchanging, amazing essence of palacw. From the Hardcover edition. From the Trade Paperback edition. Also by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. See all books by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Inspired by Your Browsing History.

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Teknik Kimia merupakan cabang ilmu teknik atau rekayasa yang mempelajari perancangan dan pengaturan proses industri untuk merubah sifat kimia dan fisika suatu bahan baku menjadi produk yang diinginkan.

Teknik Kimia merupakan gabungan ilmu kimia, fisika dan matematika dengan prinsip-prinsip teknik serta ilmu ekonomi. Rangkaian proses operasi harus dirancang sedemikian rupa sehingga proses perubahan bahan baku menjadi produk yang diinginkan, penggunaan energi dan kehilangan kepmensiknas bisa ditekan serendah mungkin.

Background

Pemilihan jenis proses juga harus mempertimbangkan faktor keamanan, ekonomi dan dampak lingkungan yang ditimbulkan. Chemical Engineering is applied primarily in the design and maintenance of chemical processes,id,both small and large scale such as factories,id,Chemical engineering engineers whose work kepmeneiknas responsible for the design and maintenance of chemical processes on a factory scale are known as process engineers,id,process engineer,en,other than kepmdndiknas Engineering engineers are also related to the research and development of chemical processes,id,In the last decade,id,the development of the chemical industry in Indonesia is running fast,id,Thus,ms,the need for Bachelor of Chemical Engineering also increased,id,This development was also accompanied by increasingly intense global competition,id,So that universities must evaluate their kepmendikans programs,id, baik dalam 20022 kecil maupun dalam skala besar seperti pabrik.

Insinyur teknik kimia yang pekerjaannya bertanggung jawab terhadap perancangan dan perawatan proses kimia pada skala pabrik dikenal dengan sebutan insinyur proses process engineer. Selain itu, Insinyur Teknik Kimia juga terkait dengan penelitian dan pengembangan proses kimia. Dalam satu dasawarsa terakhir, perkembangan industri kimia di Indonesia berjalan dengan cepat. Dengan demikian, kebutuhan sarjana Teknik Kimia juga meningkat.

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Beberapa industri seperti industri minyak bumi, petrokimia, makanan dan minuman, plastik, kertas, farmasi, keramik gelas, bahan kimia sangat memerlukan sarjana Teknik Kimia untuk proses k. Pendidikan Tinggi Teknik Kimia merupakan salah satu wahana untuk mempersiapkan sumber daya manusia yang tangguh dan kompeten di bidang Teknik Kimia, sehingga mampu menjawab tantangan yang selalu timbul dalam dinamika yang terjadi pada industri kimia.

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Selanjutnya pada tahun program studi ini berhasil mempertahankan akreditasi B. Sampai tahunsekitar sarjana S1 berhasil dicetak dengan mutu 20022 baik dan telah bekerja di berbagai instansi pemerintah maupun swasta di dalam maupun di luar negeri.