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A terrible loss for literature.

Writer Mahasweta Devi passes away in Kolkata.

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Mahasweta Devi's career spanned more than two decades and produced a timeless collection of literature driven by compassion for her compatriots.

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Writers will come and writers will go but there will never be another Mahasweta Devi .

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She was the wife of one of Bengal s most prolific playwrights and literary figures, Bijon Bhattacharya.

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Her status as an inspiration for coming generations of Indian writers is indisputable.

She published her first novel Jhansir Rani in the year 1956. She was best recognised for her work in improving the lives of the Kheria Sabar community.

Re imagining this story, Mahasweta Devi changed the leading character of Draupadi to Dopdi Mejhen, a tribal woman.

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Renowned Indian Bengali writer and social activist Mahasweta Devi passed away aged 90 years old on Thursday, July 28, 2016 in Kolkata.

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Born in the tumultuous years of the British reign in India, Mahasweta Devi grew up in a family of artists, poets and social activists leading Bengal's literary movement (Kallol) at the time.

She was one of the founders of Denotified and Notified Tribal Rights Action Group, whose work among tribal communities spread from Bengal, Gujarat to Maharastra.

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She described the context in which the infamous Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 was introduced, the process of denotification in 1952 and the plight of the nomadic communities in India ever since.

Last November, Rajo Devi, a 70 year old Indian woman, became the world s oldest mother, thanks to IVF.

Surrounded and influenced by communist ideas all her life, she began her working life as a journalist in post independence India and later went on to become an advocate for civil rights of indigenous tribes.

Look at this lady, Ram Timari Devi, on a grain bin. In Champaran, we had a Shodh Yatra and we were walking in the land where Gandhiji went to hear about the tragedy, pain of indigo growers.

Devi's audacity in depicting the plight of a tribal woman not only highlighted the different treatment of women across the social caste system but also the treatment women receive in the world as a whole.

Like many people in rural India, Devi lives in an extended family with other relatives, so she is confident that there would be others to bring up her child if necessary.

Katharine Arwen Michie and Devi Stuart Fox, both from Australia, were recipients in 2005 and 2002, respectively, of the UNESCO L'Oréal fellowships, as part of the For women in science programme, benefiting women working in doctoral and post doctoral research in the life sciences.