Mahashweta Devi
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Mahasweta Devi
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14 January 1926 Matualalaya,Dhaka, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh) |
| Died | 28 July 2016 (aged 90) Kolkata, India |
| Occupation | Political activist, author, diplomat |
| Period | 1956–2016 |
| Genre | novel, short story, drama, essay |
| Subject | Denotified tribes of India |
| Literary movement | Gananatya |
| Notable works |
Hajar Churashir Maa (Mother of 1084) Aranyer Adhikar (The Right of the Forest) Titu Mir |
| Spouse | Bijon Bhattacharya (1947-1962), Asit Gupta (1965-1976) |
| Children |
Nabarun Bhattacharya(Bappa)(23.06.1948 - 31.07.2014) Grandson: Tathagata Bhattacharya (Bau) (02.02.1976) |
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Nabarun Bhattacharya(Bappa)(23.06.1948 - 31.07.2014)
Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) was an Indian Bengali fiction writer and social activist. Her notable literary works include Hajar Churashir Maa, Rudali, and Aranyer Adhikar. She worked for the rights and empowerment of the tribal people (Lodha and Shabar) of West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states of India. She was honoured with various literary awards such as the Sahitya Akademi Award (in Bengali), Jnanpith Award and Ramon Magsaysay Award along with India's civilian awards Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan.
Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, British India, to literary parents. Her father, Manish Ghatak, was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol movement, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Ghatak's brother was noted filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. Devi's mother, Dharitri Devi, was also a writer and a social worker whose brothers were very distinguished in various fields, such as the noted sculptor Sankha Chaudhury and the founder-editor of Economic and Political Weekly of India, Sachin Chaudhury. Mahasweta Devi's first schooling was in Dhaka, Eden Montessori school (1930) but after the partition of India she moved to West Bengal in India. Then she read in Midnapur Mission School(1935).After that she admitted in Santiniketan from 1936 to 1938. After that she read in Beltala Girls' School (1939-1941) and got metric. Then in 1944 she got I.A. from Asutosh College. Then she joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Patha-Bhavana Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University.
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