Rajat is a smart, funny, and caring person. He not only cares for Korobi but also for her grandparents Bimal and Sarojini. He is a person who comes from the rich and modern background. He is basically an interesting character. He is a person who cares about history and tradition and even about spending his time with Korobi’s grandmother, Sarojini. He is an extremely conflicted and struggling to develop his own identity within his family and their business. His inexperience in life leads him to make bad choices with his past love life. But within himself he has a desire to change his entire self as a better person for Korobi. Not only has that he also tried to change his self for the benefit of his family, their business and for their employees after having Korobi in his life. His journey is one of maturity and self knowledge. He quickly comes to realization that he is not worth for Korobi and he completely wants to be more than a better person. Divakaruni is very particular to state Rajat’s betterment of life is only because of Korobi’s love, trustworth and her intense care of consciousness towards culture and religion. Korobi is a soft, kind-hearted girl who loves her grandparents to the most since they are the only family she has in her present life. Korobi loves Rajat more than everyone and she thinks that he is the one good thing that happened in her whole life. The oleander, Korobi’s namesake, is a beautiful but poisonous plant, and we discover that Korobi’s mother