Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi: A literary giant who made the lot of the tribals her own

Mahasweta Devi was one of the first to bring adivasis into the literary limelight, long before it became fashionable to take up their cause.

Mahasweta Devi’s death leaves a void in the literary world that will be hard to fill

Despite being local, and native in the subjects that they addressed, Mahasweta Devi’s work was marked with an awareness that stoked in the reader the universal

West Bengal polls: The intellectual brigade stands divided, calling for yet another 'change'

Today the united intellectual brigade in West Bengal stands divided deep within. Many of the artists who had stood with the Trinamool Congress and had vociferously propagated the call for the “Poriborton” (Change) are again up for yet another “Change”.

Mamata loses a friend, Mahasweta Devi quits Bangla Academy

After supporting and defending the Mamata Banerjee government in the past, Mahasweta Devi resigned from the post of chairman of Bangla Academy.

One year of Mamata's rule autocratic say intellectuals

A year into the rule of Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal has seen a sharp division among intellectuals who once backed the Trinamool Congress chief, with some feeling that she was 'autocratic' and 'intolerant of criticism'.

Mamata: Want my partymen to emulate my example

Mamata plays culture's Lady Bountiful in broke Bengal

Bengal might be broke. But guess who's getting a big boost in its budget? It's the department of culture. Does Mamata believe that if they cannot have bread, let them watch film festivals?

Elusive Poribarton: Mamata's biggest problem is, Mamata

Mamata Banerjee is finding it's one thing to promise change and another thing to actually deliver it. And now some of her biggest champions are speaking out against her, including literary icon Mahasweta Devi.

Deadline given to Maoists not enough: Mahasweta Devi

Noted writer-activist Mahasweta Devi today said the West Bengal government's seven-day deadline to Maoists to lay down their arms was not enough and joint forces should be withdrawn from Junglemahal.