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Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) was an Indian writer in Bengali and an activist. Her notable literary works include Hajar Churashir Maa , Rudali , and Aranyer Adhikar . [3] She was a leftist who worked for the rights and empowerment of the tribal people ( Lodha and Shabar ) of West Bengal , Bihar , Madhya Pradesh and ...
Mahasweta Devi, née le 14 janvier 1926 à Dhaka, au Bangladesh (alors Inde britannique), et morte le 28 juillet 2016 [1], [2] est une écrivaine et militante indienne bengali. Ses œuvres littéraires les plus connues sont notamment Hajar Churashir Maa , Rudali et Aranyer Adhikar [ 3 ] .
Mahasweta Devi is not only known for her political writing style but her immense contribution towards communities of landless labourers of eastern India where she worked for years. Her intimate connection with these communities allowed her to understand and begin documenting grassroots-level issues, thus making her a socio-political commentator ...
Aug 3, 2016 · NEW DELHI — Mahasweta Devi, a prominent Bengali writer and social activist who immersed herself in the lives of India’s poor and marginalized as she chronicled the injustices against them in ...
Mahasweta Devi (1926–2016) was one of India’s foremost literary figures from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—a writer and social activist in equal right. Author of numerous novels, essays and short stories, she received the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honour, in 1996.
Aug 8, 2016 · Mahasweta Devi. “Please don’t write more books. I can’t read so many books,” a little girl once said to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate. The little girl was Mahasweta Devi, who grew up to be one of India’s best-known writers and activists.
Jul 28, 2016 · Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016) was a fighter all her life, through her books and through her activism The writer died in Kolkata on Thursday at the age of 90.
Aug 27, 2021 · In a retelling of the powerful eponymous character from the Mahabharata, Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi — or Dopdi as she is called — is a rebel who is cornered by the police trying to put down ...
Sep 28, 2016 · This is how Mahasweta Devi, who died at the age of 90 on 28 July in Kolkata, described her work as a writer who dedicated herself to telling those stories that challenged the established order in India.
“All through my life, I’ve done whatever I felt like doing” — this quote aptly describes the fiercely independent-minded Mahasweta Devi, the doyen of activist-writers in India, who died on ...
