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Bengali Author Mahasweta Devi's 92nd Birth Anniversary Born 14 January 1926

Bengali Author Mahasweta Devi's 92nd Birth Anniversary Born 14 January 1926


Bengali Author Mahasweta Devi's 92nd Birth Anniversary Born 14 January 1926
Bengali Author Mahasweta Devi's 92nd Birth Anniversary Born 14 January 1926



Mahasweta Devi ( Born 14 January 1926 – Passed 28 July 2016 ) : Mahasweta Devi was an Indian Bengali novel 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 Decca, British India (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) to literary parents. Her father, Manish Ghatak, was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol movement, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa (Bengali: যুবনাশ্ব).
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 studied in Midnapur Mission School(1935). After that she admitted in Santiniketan from 1936 to 1938. After that she studied 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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