The Selected Works of Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (b. 1926) is one of our foremost literary personalities, a prolific and best-selling author in Bengali of short fiction and novels; a deeply political social activist who has been working with and for tribals and marginalized communities like the landless labourers of eastern India for years; the editor of a quarterly, Bortika, in which the tribals and marginalized peoples themselves document grassroot-level issues and trends; and a socio-political commentator whose articles have appeared regularly in the Economic and Political Weekly Frontier, and other journals.
A representational look at the complete Mahasweta—her novels, her short fiction, her children’s stories, her plays, her activist prose writings—the series is an attempt to introduce her impressive body of work to a readership beyond Bengal; it is also an overdue recognition of the importance of her contribution to the literary and cultural history of our country.