Mahasweta Devi-Writer, Author, Social activist

Mahasweta Devi (Bengali: মহাশ্বেতা দেবী Môhashsheta Debi) (born 1926) is an Indian social activist and writer. Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Noted filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak was the elder brother of Manish Ghatak. Mahasweta's moth... Read more at Wikipedia

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1926

Place of Birth: Dhaka, Dhaka District, Bangladesh

Profession: Writer, Author, Social activist

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn



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