Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the most notable Indian American writer, has penned down the story of Sita, taken up from the Indian mythological pantheon, from a feminist perspective. Chitra Banerjee is quite dexterous in the retelling of epics. She has woven her Sitayana by pulling the strings from the great epic The Ramayana. The retelling subverts the hegemony of the male-centric approach and brings forth the repudiated female characters by throwing light, particularly on the character of Sita. The author takes the readers into the flight of Sita’s woeful journey that she has experienced in Lanka under the sorrow tree and also gives voices to other subjugated and subdued female characters like Urmila, Ahilya, Surpankha, Mandodari, Kaikeyi etc. These characters are often neglected and are effaced from all narratives. It is not only the tale of Sita but other overlooked characters also. The aim of this paper is to encourage gender equality and to depict the transformation of the marginalized into the mainstream.