Google Doodle honours Mahasweta Devi
After graduating in Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English from the Patha-Bhavana Vishvabharati University, Santiniketan, she also completed her Master's degree in English from Calcutta University.
Google often pays tribute to eminent personalities or reminds us of important days via its colourful doodle.
Mahasweta Devi was also an accomplished social activist and her activism led to many visible results, the first of which being the release of the statue of tribal leader Birsa Munda from imprisonment by the Jharkand State Government.
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A long time champion for the political, social and economic rights of the tribal communities, Mahasweta Devi has said that the reason why she writes has evolved over the years. Born in 1926 in Dhaka to well-known poet Manish Ghatak and Dharitri Devi, also a writer and social worker, she grew up in a political and literary environment. Devi died on July 28, 2016, at the age of 90 due to multiple organ failures in Kolkata's Belle Vue Clinic hospital. She had also raised her voice against forcible land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram. She has bagged several awards for her exemplary literary work. She once said, "My India still lives behind a curtain of darkness". Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Bharatiya Jananpith Award, the Ramon Magsaysay Award and the Padma Vibhushan, "Mahasweta Devi is credited with initiating a new move in Bengali literature that blends history, fiction and myth with a touch of documentary reality". Her short story "Choli Ke Peeche" inspired Italian director Italo Spinelli to make the multilingual "Gangor".
Her novels were turned into award-winning movies like Govind Nihalani's 1998 movie Hazar Chaurasi Ki Ma and Kalpana Lajmi's Rudali.
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