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Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 - 28 July 2016) was an Indian social activist and writer. He was awarded the Gyanpeeth Award in 1996.

Early life and education:
He was born on 14 January 1926 in Dhaka, undivided India. His father Manish Ghatak was a poet and a novelist and his mother Dhritri Devi was also a writer and a social worker. His schooling took place in Dhaka. At the time of Partition of India, your family settled in West Bengal only during adolescence. Later, he did graduation (prestige) in Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan in English and then in postgraduate English at the University of Calcutta. After getting a master's degree in English literature from the University of Kolkata, you started your life as a teacher and journalist. Thereafter, you also worked as an English lecturer in Calcutta University. After that, you took retirement to focus on writing in 1984.

Literary life:
As the name of Mahashweta Devi comes to mind, many of her images appear in front of the eyes. In fact, he rectified his personality through hard work and honesty. He developed himself as a journalist, writer, litterateur, and agitator.

Mahasweta started writing at a young age and made important contributions to short stories for various literary journals. Your first novel, "Nati", was published in 1957 in his works, 'Queen of Jhansi' is the first prose composition of Mahasweta Devi. Which came into publication in 1956. In his own words, "After writing this, I got to understand that I will become a storyteller." This book was written by Mahasweta not walking in Calcutta but walking along with all those events that took place in the 1857-58 history of the forests of Sagar, Jabalpur, Pune, Indore, Lalitpur, Jhansi, Gwalior, and Kalpi. In addition to his heroine, the author has tried to judge with all the revolutionaries of revolution and even till the British officers. You say that "first was my original mode of poetry, now story and novel." Some of his important works include 'Nati', 'Matrukhv', 'Agnigarbh', 'Jungle Claimant' and 'Mother of 1084', Maheshwar, Village Bangla. Over the past forty years, twenty collections of his short stories have been published and close to hundred novels (all in Bangla language) have been published.

Bibliography table:

  • Nongovernment rights
  • Southwest cloud
  • Fireside
  • Ganesh Mahima
  • Hazar Churashir Ma
  • Snatch and arrows
  • Shalgirar Dake
  • Nilchabi (1986, now, Dhaka.)
  • Endowment
  • IPC 375
  • Sampriyat
  • Per minute
  • Mouth
  • Krishna Danshashi
  • 6th December at Dec.
  • Barely dwarf
  • Millur born
  • Scurry
  • Mammaline
  • Lely Ashmar Aina
  • Assurance standard
  • Yabjjiban
  • Hunting purb
  • Fireside
  • Breast grip
  • Dost un de road
  • Aoyar Nun-Send Cow
  • Bassai Tandu
  • Titu Mir
  • Rudali
  • October number holder Assamese
  • Departure
  • Extortion

Dimensions:
The film was also made on many of his compositions. On his novel 'Rudali', Kalpana Lajmi made the film by filmmaker Govind Nihalani in 1998 with the same name on 'Rudali' and 'Mother of Thousand Chaurasi'. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1979, Padmashree in 1986, and the Gyanpeeth Award in 1997. Gyanpeeth award was given to Nelson Mandela. He gave five lakh rupees in this award to the Purulia tribal committee of Bengal. His novel 'Arnir right' is a saga of Birsa Munda, tribal leader, rewarded by Sahitya Akademi. In the novel 'Agnigarbha' there are four long stories written in the background of the Naxalbari tribal revolt.

death:
He died on 28 July 2016 in Kolkata.

Some works in Hindi:
(Conversion from all Bengali to Hindi) Akalant Kaura, Agnigarbha, nectar accumulation, tribal narrative, brick over brick, accused of the nineteenth section, life imprisonment, Krishna Dvashashi, village bangla, subtract the vowels, chutti munda and its arrow, contenders of the forest, Junken was burnt, firefighters, Jhansi's queen, terodactil, dulati, nati, bania bahu, mother of mother, mother of mother, master saab, for maloo, reporter, reporter, Sri Sri Ganesh mahima, women Ivy festival, swaha and hero-a blue print etc.

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