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	Mahsweta Devi
		Born into a literary family, Mahasweta Devi was also influenced by her early association with Gananatya, a group who attempted to bring social and political theater to rural villages in Bengal in the 1930's and 1940's.
		Devi, in a 1983 interview, points to this movement as the first major event that she felt "an urge and an obligation to document" (Bandyopandhyay viii).
		Devi's Hajar Churashir Ma (Mother of 1084) is the story of a upper middle class woman whose world is forever changed when her son is killed for his Naxalite beliefs.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Devi.html (770 words)

	Studies in Short Fiction: Maps: Three Stories. - book reviews
		Devi merges the ritual of the tribal women's hunt with Mary's murder of her suitor, suggesting that indigenous practices still provide a fertile ground for myths that can be deployed to combat contemporary oppressions.
		Devi leaves no room for doubt about the governing metaphor here; the last line of the story,--"Douloti is all over India"--makes it abundantly clear that Douloti's narrative speaks both to the specific oppression of women in the bonded labor system and the general disenfranchisement of the various tribes throughout "unified" India.
		Devi's work as a writer is but one element of her life's project of political activism, and her fiction declaims injustices loudly and without reservation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2455/is_n1_v34/ai_20925796 (586 words)

	seagull books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahasweta Devi's corrosive humour and cryptic style are at their best as she takes on issues of agrarian land relations, inter-caste violence, so-called rural development and the position of women in rural India.
		Mahasweta Devi's acute and perceptive pen brings them to life with a deep empathy and sensitivity which makes these women step out of the margins of society to live in her own minds, impressive in their quite courage and tenacity, their will to survive.
		Mahasweta Devi explores the cultural values of the Shabars and how they cope with the slow erosion of their way of life, as more and more forest land gets cleared to make way for settlements.
	www.seagullindia.com /index-books/md/fiction.html (1765 words)

	Mahasweta Devi - Biographical Sketch [Parabaas Translation] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahasweta Devi (mahaashbetaa debI) was born in 1926 at Dhaka, Bangladesh in a family of literateurs and social workers.
		Mahasweta's writings are often based upon meticulous research, conducted sometimes via unconventional means (such as oral history), into the history of the peoples she writes about.
		Unlike other Bengali authors, Mahasweta Devi's works have fortunately been translated (and continue to be translated) into many languages (check out the excellent SAWNET archive.) She has received many awards, including Sahitya Akademi (1979), Jnanpith (1996), Ramon Magsaysay (1996), and for her work among the tribals, the Padmashree in 1986.
	www.parabaas.com /translation/database/authors/texts/mahasweta.html (240 words)

	1997 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts - Mahasweta Devi
		Mahasweta Devi was born to a privileged, middle-class Bengali family on January 14, 1926.
		Devi’s father was an admirer and friend of Tagore’s and her uncles, too, either attended Santiniketan or moved in the same circles as Tagore.
		Devi had for long been dimly aware of the presence of tribal people, but it was the Palamau experience that brought her face to face with the misery of a people largely excluded from official, mainstream history.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyDeviMah.htm (7322 words)

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		In this masterful and deeply sensitive tale, Mahasweta Devi once again interweaves a social tapestry and the detail of human lives, crating a powerful tale of love, longing and passion set in time when the British are beginning to consolidate their hold on Bengal.
		Mahasweta Devi is at her most tender in her sensitive, delicately drawn portraits of these two old women although her trenchant pen is ruthless as ever in delineating the socio-economic oppression within which they are forced to survive.
		Mahasweta Devi's acute and perceptive pen brings to life with a deep empathy and sensitivity life stories of four women, who have one thing in common: the unending class, caste and gender exploitation which makes their lives a relentless struggle for survival.
	www.indiaclub.com /shop/Authorselect.asp?Author=Mahasweta+Devi (1230 words)

	The Hindu : Sahitya Akademi elections take political hues
		However, both candidates — the Bharatiya Jnanpith award-winning writer, Mahasweta Devi, and the outgoing vice-president of the Akademi, Gopi Chand Narang — have "officially" maintained a distance from the political divisions, with the latter claiming to be a socialist while the former's political convictions are no secret.
		Another question that he and his supporters pose is whether Mahasweta Devi — who has also won the Magsaysay award for her work with tribals — has the time or the experience for the job.
		Mahasweta Devi's stature being what it is her detractors, therefore, have chosen to train their guns on her supporters.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/2003/02/17/stories/2003021701430900.htm (537 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Mahasweta Devi wins Magsaysay award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahasweta Devi, the Bengali novelist and champion of tribal communities, has won this year's Magsaysay award for journalism, literature and creative communication.
		Mahasweta Devi is the second Indian to receive this year's Magsaysay award, considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel prize.
		Mahasweta Devi -- the 36th woman and 35th Indian to receive the award -- says the tribals would be happy to find out about the award which carries with it a cash prize of $ 50,000.
	www.rediff.com /news/jul/24mag.htm (419 words)

	Mother of 1084
		Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers.
		Mother of 1084; one of Mahasweta Devi's most widely-read works in Bengal, is an insightful exploration of the complex relationship between the personal and the political.
		It is also considered a significant milestone in her literary career, a watershed novel both in terms of approach and content, and in terms of language and style.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDE476 (237 words)

	1997 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts - Mahasweta Devi
		Born in Dhaka to a family of poets, writers, and artists, Devi was molded as a child in the rich milieu of Bengali high culture.
		In 1965, Devi visited Palamau, a remote and impoverished district in Bihar that she calls "a mirror of tribal India." Moving from place to place on foot, she witnessed the savage impact of absentee landlordism and debt-bondage on indigenous society, especially on women.
		In electing Mahasweta Devi to receive the 1997 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, the board of trustees recognizes her compassionate crusade through art and activism to claim for tribal peoples a just and honorable place in India's national life.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Citation/CitationDeviMah.htm (636 words)

	Outcastes and Oppression - A Review by Susan Chacko of Two Bengali Books in English Translation[Parabaas Translation]
		The hard life stories of the tribals who are oppressed by the moneylenders and landlords, condescended to by the government, aided in uselessly inappropriate ways by charity groups and well-meaning city people, are described in her distinctively matter-of-fact style.
		Mahasweta Devi writes in a mixture of tribal and folk dialects and urban Bengali.
		The letter is a damning indictment of the woman's own husband, who had never physically abused her but was a passive participant in suppressing her interests, desires, and those of the other women in the extended family.
	www.parabaas.com /translation/database/reviews/brOutcaste.html (1859 words)

	Mahasweta Devi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahasweta received the Magsaypay award which is the Indian equivalent of the Nobel Peace Prize.
		Mahasweta spoke about her work with the Indian tribes and the lack of political and economic support she received from the government.
		Mahasweta has been able to creatively integrate her powerful approach in her writings with her direct service to her people.Mahasweta dedicates her life in seeing do it that the basic human rights of her people are met while maintaining their tribal identity.
	qcpages.qc.cuny.edu /ENGLISH/Projects/postcol/country/india/authors.html (833 words)

	PopMatters \| Columns \| Priya Lal \| Bollywood from Beyond \| Crossing Borders, Writing Back: The Work of Arundhati Roy ...
		Devi is not even remotely trendy even in her own India, except among a select group of nerdy academics studying postcolonial culture who drool over Gayatri Spivak and her cohort, and perhaps an equally insular legion of hard-core development activists.
		Devi is fighting equally hard with an arsenal of realistic fiction and journalism to bring to mainstream India's attention the plight and stories of its tribal and lower caste citizens.
		Devi and her ilk write local stories and don't offer us the explicit connect-the-dot universalizing that Roy provides us to help us as Western readers understand the relevance of something like dam-building in central India to our own lives.
	www.popmatters.com /columns/lal/030724.shtml (2478 words)

	Mahasveta Devi: A Living Inspiration
		Mahasweta Devi was born into a literary family on January 14, 1926 in the city of Dacca (now part of modern day Bangladesh), but she and her family soon moved to West Bengal, India.
		Mahasweta Devi translates her perception of society through the lives of her well-etched characters as they journey through the harshness of life, struggling to maintain their dignity amidst the indifference they face along the way.
		There is so much to write about Mahasweta Devi and yet the words never seem enough to capture the spirit of a woman whose work reflect the grim reality of the world we live in and yet remains optimistic and hopeful.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit03072005/pointofview.asp (1055 words)

	Sahitya Akademi Elections: Colourful clash; Mar 2, 2003 The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Supporters of Mahasweta Devi, who apparently stood for secularism and opposed government interference, accused eminent Urdu critic Dr Gopi Chand Narang of being a saffron acolyte when he called Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi "the pride of Urdu".
		I am a socialist, a secularist and a nationalist." Narang feels Mahasweta Devi was betrayed by her supporters.
		Mahasweta Devi was initially reluctant to contest, but was persuaded by poet Ashok Vajpayee and Professor Namwar Singh.
	www.the-week.com /23mar02/life9.htm (553 words)

	Postcolonial Performance - Issue 2 - SHARP Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This section examines some versions of texts written by one of India’s foremost writers, Mahasweta Devi, to observe whether the fungibility of the text described by Barthes is a local or more general phenomenon, much less a postcolonial one.
		Among the most instructive aspects of Mahasweta Devi’s recent work, when viewed in light of these three horizons, is the relative absence in it of any discussion of colonization or the movement for Indian independence (with some exceptions).
		Finally, Mahasweta’s subaltern perspective unwrites the historical record of colonial subordination and national independence to reveal deep strata of the population that do not recognize these periodizing frames or their liberationist potential.
	www.sussex.ac.uk /Units/arthist/sharp/issues/0002/pHTML/pPostcolonialPerformance01.shtml (709 words)

	Resources for Feminist Research: Mahasweta Devi's documentary/fiction as critical antidote: rethinking bonded labour, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Resources for Feminist Research: Mahasweta Devi's documentary/fiction as critical antidote: rethinking bonded labour, "women and development" and the sex trade in India.
		Mahasweta Devi's documentary/fiction as critical antidote: rethinking bonded labour, "women and development" and the sex trade in India.
		In this paper, I argue that Mahasweta Devi's meticulously researched "documentary/fiction," which moves fluidly between fiction, history, ethnography and reportage, provide a crucial antidote to three vexed problems in South Asian studies: bonded labour, "women and development" and the sex trade.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:98372235&refid=holomed_1 (239 words)

	outlookindia.com
		Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) Eminent Bengali author Mahasweta Devi was today conferred the French government's second highest civilian award 'Officier dans L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres' (Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters) making her the first Indian writer to receive the laurel.
		French Ambassdor in India Dominique Girard presented the award to Mahasweta Devi at a brief function in Hotel Oberoi Grand in the presence of the city's cultural glitteratti.
		Accepting the award, Mahasweta Devi confessed that she was caught unaware by the 'suddenness' of the award announcement.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=189054 (250 words)

	proXsa: Inspiration: Mahasweta Devi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mahasweta Devi as a creative thinker is unique in more than one way.
		Her father Manish Ghatak was a poet and a novelist of repute and her mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer in her own way and a devoted social worker too.
		However, Mahasweta Devi is much more than what these awards show her to be and she will live in our minds for generations to come.
	flowers.insaf.net /inspiration/maha_devi.html (481 words)

	DNT-RAG--Activities/Events
		Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer" brings us face-to-face with one of the most celebrated writers in India.
		Mahasweta comes to life as an ordinary person in extraordinary settings, fighting back through literature while surrounded by nationalist, patriarchal and capitalist violence.
		This informal documentary about the life and work of Mahasweta Devi introduces an Indian icon to a new generation of international readers.
	www.georgetown.edu /departments/pjp/dnt-rag/index_files/videodoc.htm (323 words)

	Hooch And Hamlet in Chharanagar » Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Advocate, Writer
		At the center of a half-century of tumultuous change, the lifetime of Mahasweta Devi has spanned the British period, Independence, and fifty years of postcolonial turmoil.
		Informal in style, this video explores how Mahasweta’s daily life and writing is a part of her life as a tireless worker for the rights of the aboriginal peoples of India.
		Mahashweta Devi was born in 1926 in the city of Dhaka in East Bengal (modern day Bangladesh).
	hoochandhamlet.com /mahasweta-devi (638 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The southern votes in the Akademi seemed to have gone in favour of Mahasweta Devi but a split was suspected in the Bengal votes.
		Mahasweta Devi had said after her candidature that her writer-friends had pushed her to the contest.
		Leftist academic Namwar Singh and bureaucrat-poet Ashok Vajpayee are believed to have been instrumental in persuading her.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030218/asp/nation/story_1683052.asp (271 words)

	Amazon.com: Bitter Soil: Books: Mahasveta Debi,Mahasweta Devi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BITTER SOIL contains four of Mahasweta Devi's most compelling stories--works which accent her political and economic humanism in ways which will surprise those who think of her as a feminist writer.
		Mahasweta Devi is best known for her harrowing climactic symbols.
		One warning for American audiences: Mahasweta Devi spares no one; her works were intended to move her Bengali readers to action.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/8170461472?v=glance (665 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books
		Mahasweta Devi’s representation of the tribals and the poor of India mock at "the Great Indian Meaning", the rhetoric of the nation-state which, in fact, has no place for its millions of inhabitants.
		Yet, Mahasweta’s tone is not dismissive; she is aware of India’s enormous if unutilised potential.
		But gradually he shows us how Mahasweta Devi, one of India’s "most necessary" writers, creates an "other" India from the multiplicity of Oraons, Mundas, Santals, Lodhas, Kherias, Mahalis, Gonds, and many more, who are controlled by Brahmins and Rajput zamindars, and are conspired out of existence in the negotiation between Empire and Nation.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050918/spectrum/book2.htm (701 words)

	What's new on filmindia.com? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This year's selection includes Govind Nihlani's Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Ma based on a story by Mahasweta Devi, Kumar Shahani's Char Adhyay based on a Tagore novel by the same name, and Train to Pakistan by Pamela Rooks based on the novel by Kushwant Singh aboput the partition of India in 1947 into India and Pakistan.
		Mahasweta Devi, the Bengali novelist and champion of tribal communities, has won 1997 Magsaysay award for journalism, literature and creative communication.
		Another film based on Mahasweta Devi story is Gautam Ghose's Gudia shown at Cannes last year.
	filmindia.indonet.com /new.html (297 words)

	rediff.com: Noted writer urges President to intervene in Gujarat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Eminent writer and Magsaysay award winner Mahasweta Devi on Saturday urged President K R Narayanan to immediately intervene and put an end to the violence in Gujarat.
		In a letter to the President, the writer said she was appalled at the outburst of communal frenzy, and added that the state government and Centre "are doing too little too late''.
		Seeking the President's intervention ''at this hour of national shame", Mahasweta Devi said she was deeply disturbed by the events taking place in Gujarat.
	in.rediff.com /news/2002/mar/02train9.htm (205 words)

	SAWNET: Bookshelf: Mahasweta Devi
		Mahasweta Devi started writing at a young age, and contributed short stories to various literary magazines.
		Her first novel, Nati, was published in 1957 Among her masterpieces are Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, Rudali, Bioscoper Baksho, and Chatti Munda O Tar Tir.
		Stories of Devi's childhood in Bengal, growing up as the eldest in a family of nine.
	www.sawnet.org /books/authors.php?Devi+Mahasweta (707 words)

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