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Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer.
She was born in in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa.
Mahasweta’s mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker. Hons in English, and then finished an M. Inshe gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal’s and India’s leading novelist whose works are noted for their intellectual vigour and philosophical flavour. She got divorced from Bijon Bhattacharya in Inshe began teaching at Bijoygarh College an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta system. During those days, Bijoygarh College was an institution for working class women students.
During that period she also worked as a journalist and as a creative writer. Recently, she is more famous for her work related to the study of the Lodhas and Shabars, the tribal communities of West Bengal, women and dalits. She is also an activist who is dedicated to the struggles of tribal people in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
In her elaborate Bengali fiction, she often depicts the brutal oppression of tribal peoples and the untouchables by potent, authoritarian upper-caste landlords, lenders, and venal government officials. Sahitya Akademi Award Bengali: Jnanpith Award – the highest literary award from the Bharatiya Jnanpith Padma Vibhushan – the second highest civilian award from the Government of India Yashwantrao Chavan National Award Bangabibhushan – the highest civilian award from dei Government of West Bengal Books by Mahasweta Devi.
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