Introduction :
Bharati Mukherjee,born in Calcutta in 1940 and teaching English at the University of California, refuses to be described using hyphen.

milestones :
This ideology of her filters through in her two novels of 1990s-The Holder Of the World written in 1993 and Leave it to Me written in 1997.

Review of life :
Mukherjee has indeed traveled long distances-she went to England when she was7,came back to India to graduate and postgraduate, went to US, then to Canada, and the to US again.