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Mahasweta Devi urged the powerful to tell it like they are

January 20, 2026 8:52 am

Did savarna Mahasweta corner the mic, speaking over the Adivasi? This question may not have been asked in the 1970s, 1980s, even the 2000s, but it must be confronted today, given the questions Ambedkarites and Periyarites have raised about who shapes public discourse

Mahasweta Devi's fiction resists the smoothness of official history.

Why Mahasweta Devi still matters: 6 books to read on her 100th birth anniversary

January 28, 2026 5:46 pm

At 100, Mahasweta Devi does not read like a writer of the past, but as a rebuke to literary complacency and historical amnesia.

Mahasweta Devi’s questions still resonate

January 14, 2026 7:24 am

For Mahasweta Devi, literary imagination was inseparable from activism.

Mahasweta Devi would be angry with today’s India

January 14, 2026 12:02 pm

Had she been alive today, she very likely would have been branded an ‘anti-national’. An impediment to the GDP growth rate-induced development riding on bulldozers, while around 55 per cent of the country’s people rely on free rations.

DU drops Mahasweta Devi's 'Draupadi' from English syllabus; here's what the short story is all about

August 26, 2021 2:03 pm

Draupadi has also been translated by post-colonial critic and theoretician Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak in 1981, introducing an entire set of readers in the West to Mahasweta Devi's powerful work.

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Mahasweta Devi's 92nd birth anniversary: Remembering the fiery author and her work

January 14, 2018 3:39 pm

During Mahasweta Devi's lifetime, she had, time and again, raised her voice against the atrocities suffered by the adivasis. Recipient of numerous literary awards, she was deeply moved by the everyday realities she saw around her and started writing during the 1960s.