Mahasweta Devi

Radha Chakravarty is a writer, critic and translator. She has co-edited The Essential Tagore, nominated Book of the Year 2011 by Martha Nussbaum. She is the author of Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers and Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts. Her Tagore translations include Gora, Chokher Bali, Boyhood Days, Farewell Song: Shesher Kabita, Four Chapters and The Land of Cards: Stories, Poems and Plays for Children. Other works in translation are Bankimchandra Chatterjee’s Kapalkundala, Mahasweta Devi’s Our Santiniketan and In the Name of the Mother (nominated for the Crossword Translation Award, 2004), Vermillion Clouds: Stories by Bengali Women, and Crossings: Stories from Bangladesh and India. She has edited Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Bodymaps: Stories by South Asian Women and co-edited Writing Feminism: South Asian Voices and Writing Freedom: South Asian Voices. Her poems have appeared in numerous books and journals. She has contributed to Pandemic: A Worldwide Community Poem, nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2020. Her forthcoming books include The Tagore Phenomenon and translations of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s essays. She was Professor of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India.

• List of photographsPreface to the SeriesPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Searing Vision of Mahasweta Devi RADHA CHAKRAVARTYPART ISpectrum: The Writer’s Oeuvre Fictionalised Biography – The Queen of Jhansi (extract)TRANSLATED BY SAGAREE AND MANDIRA SENGUPTA Novel – Mother of 1084 (extract)TRANSLATED BY SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY Short fiction – Giribala (extract)TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY Drama – Bayen (extract)TRANSLATED BY SAMIK BANDYOPADHYAY Children’s Writing – Nyadosh the Incredible Cow (extract)TRANSLATED BY PARAMITA BANERJEE Literary Criticism – Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (extract)PART IIKaleidoscope: Critical Reception Novelist Mahasweta Devi: The Critical TraditionARUP KUMAR DASTRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA Mahasweta Devi: In Search of a Rare Uniqueness DIPENDU CHAKRABARTI TRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA Hajar Churashir Ma, Mahasweta and the Next Phase of the Bangla Novel DILIP KUMAR BASUTRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA Mahasweta Devi: Forests and NaturePARTHA PRATIM BANDYOPADHYAY TRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY Mahasweta Devi’s Writings: An EvaluationSUJIT MUKHERJEE Reading "Pterodactyl"GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK Douloti as a National AllegoryJAIDEV Re-ordering the Maternal: Histories of Violence in Mahasweta Devi, Toni Morrison and Amrita PritamSHREEREKHA SUBRAMANIAN The Politics of Positionality: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Samik Bandyopadhyay as Translators of Mahasweta Devi SHREYA CHAKRAVORTY Reconsidering ‘Fictionalised Biographies’: Mahasweta Devi's Queen of Jhansi and Mamoni Raisom Goswami's The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar ARUNABH KONWAR Writing for the Stage: The Plays of Mahasweta DeviANJUM KATYAL Sahitya as Kinesis: Performative Potential in Stage and Screen Adaptations of Mahasweta Devi’s WorksBENIL BISWASPART IIIAblaze With Rage: The Writer As Activist Tribal Language and Literature MAHASWETA DEVITRANSLATED BY MAITREYA GHATAK Eucalyptus: Why?MAHASWETA DEVI Palamau is a Mirror of India MAHASWETA DEVITRANSLATED BY IPSITA CHANDA The Adivasi MahaswetaG.N. DEVY Haunted Landscapes: Mahasweta Devi and the AnthropoceneMARY LOUISA CAPPELLIPART IVPersonal Glimpses: A Life in Words Our SantiniketanMAHASWETA DEVITRANSLATED BY RADHA CHAKRAVARTY "Talking Writing: Conversations with Mahasweta Devi" NAVEEN KISHORE ‘To find me, read my work’: Dialogues with Mahasweta Devi RADHA CHAKRAVARTY Family Reminiscences I Am Truly Amazed Baba, Ma, Our Home SOMA MUKHOPADHYAYTRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA The Didi I have KnownSARI LAHIRITRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA My MotherNABARUN BHATTACHARYATRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA Mahasweta Devi: The 'Mashi' Who Wrote Fearlessly About Caste, Class and PatriarchyINA PURI Shobor Mother Mahasweta Devi RANJIT KUMAR DASTRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA Small Big ThingsANAND (P. SACHIDANANDAN) A Legend Who Lived on Her Own TermsANITA AGNIHOTRITRANSLATED BY NANDINI GUHA "Every Dream Has the Right to Live"Dakxin BajrangeBio-chronologyBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex