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India is a land of myth. Myth has included many cultures, communities and the ways of living life. Myths are tales that are told with imaginative thought and reveal the nature of the universe. Indian English literature is filled with stories taken from the Upnishads, the Vedas and the Epics. Myths teach us the way of living, and values related to culture and tradition. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an amazing writer whose writings are based on the ideas of myth, magic, culture and tradition. In her novels she has used myth as a tool to show the truth behind the mythological stories and wants to prove how myth helps the immigrants to solve their problems of life. Tilo, Anju, Sudha, Draupadi are the characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Through these characters she exposes the sufferings of women and how they face and handle the problems with the help of myth. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni represents the mythological image of the characters in her novels. By making the female characters powerful, independent and obstinate, she reinvented, rewrote and redefined them. Present article explores the mythological image of women. It also analyses the fact that myths act as a moral instructor who directs human being to live an ideal life. It gives a new interpretation of the voices of women as depicted by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.