Mahasweta Devi had very creative family linkages, she was related to the great filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak and sculptor Shankho Chaudhari. Her son Nabarun Bhattacharya occupies an honourable position in Bangla literature.
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In the 2001 documentary “Mahasweta Devi: Witness, Writer, Advocate”, the tribal rights crusader asserted that “language is a weapon, it’s not for shaving your armpits”.
Some of her work, such as Hajar Churashir Ma and Rudali, has also been converted into movies.
She was also suffering from diabetes and was put on ventilator support dies at around 3 p.m.
Eminent writer Mahasweta Devi, who had penned hundreds of heartwarming tales about the downtrodden, could never finish her own story about the mental trauma she went through after her divorce.
But even though the tweet was deleted, people criticised the minister and posted photos of her deleted tweet and termed it as “ignorance”.
Tweeted Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, “India has lost a great writer”.
Her outstanding work with the Sabars, a de-notified tribal community in the Purulia district of West Bengal, earned her the name “The Mother of the Sabars”. Rest in peace, Mahasweta Devi. Accolades like the Sahitya Akademi, Jnanpith and Magsaysay awards only further prove her mettle. She taught at a city college for two decades, before deciding to devote all her time to writing and activism. Later, she became famous as a journalist and writer.
People from all walks of life came in hundreds to catch a glimpse of Devi at Rabindra Sadan on Friday.
Then a condolence procession carrying her body will be brought out in Kolkata.
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Women specially feel close to her because they feel she is a writer who knows what it is to be a woman with her physical vulnerability, her unspoken feelings about motherhood, sensuality and violence.
