{"id":101275,"date":"2016-08-08T15:13:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T19:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=101275"},"modified":"2016-08-08T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T21:22:03","slug":"mahasweta-devi-1926-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/mahasweta-devi-1926-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahasweta Devi, 1926\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_101278\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mahasweta_devi.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101278\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101278\" class=\"wp-image-101278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mahasweta_devi-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"mahasweta_devi\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mahasweta_devi-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mahasweta_devi-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mahasweta_devi-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mahasweta_devi.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-101278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mahasweta Devi.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t write more books. I can\u2019t read so many books,\u201d a little girl once said to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate.\u00a0The little girl was Mahasweta Devi, who grew up to be one of India\u2019s best-known writers and activists. When Mahasweta died, on July 28\u2014Devi is an honorific\u2014she left behind no small collection herself: she had written more than a hundred books, including fiction and nonfiction about India\u2019s tribal communities, Maoist insurgents, and women.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mahasweta died at ninety, and over the course of a long career she became India\u2019s leading writer of fiction in Bengali. She won the Ramon Magsaysay Award\u2014the\u00a0curiously nicknamed Asian Nobel Prize\u2014in 1997, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, and counted Gayatri Spivak among her translators. But the admiration of educated elites was of little concern to Mahasweta. Both her fiction and her nonfiction addressed stories of struggle, resistance, and empowerment, a change in focus from the stories about the lives of the urbane middle classes that had previously dominated Bengali literature. She set a powerful example for other Bengali writers, including those who, like Arundhati Roy and Amitav Ghosh, are more familiar to Anglophone readers.<\/p>\n<p>Mahasweta became well known for her sharp satires of gender inequality in India. At the start of \u201cBreast-Giver,\u201d one of her most acclaimed\u00a0short stories, Yashoda, a Brahmin wet nurse for the family of a patriarch, worries that she exists only in relation to the men in her life.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s as if she were Kangalicharan\u2019s wife from birth, the\u00a0mother of twenty children, living or dead, counted on her fingers,\u201d Mahasweta writes. \u201cYashoda was a mother by profession, <em>professional<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>mother.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Mahasweta herself was\u00a0the daughter of a modernist poet, the wife of a street-theater director, and the niece of an arthouse filmmaker, and she tended to speak about\u00a0about the men in her own life in more ambiguous terms. When asked whether she worried about consequences of her activism, she answered, \u201cI am Ritwik Ghatak\u2019s niece, I am the wife of Bijon Bhattacharya. What should I be scared of? We don\u2019t know what fear is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Mother of 1084<\/em> (<em>Hajar Churashir Ma)<\/em>, which Mahasweta wrote in the seventies\u2014just after the most visible phase of Maoist insurgencies in West Bengal\u2014is perhaps her most widely read work. The novel centers on Sujata, a mother who wakes up one morning to learn that her son Brati is lying dead in a morgue; he is corpse number 1084. Brati was a Maoist, and he owed his death to his often violent revolutionary commitments. Sujata spends most of the novel trying to work out why Brati believed what he did, and why he died as he had.<\/p>\n<p>Mahasweta wrote often about the injustices faced by India\u2019s poor and marginalized, but she was also a more committed psychological writer than her reputation suggests. Though the omniscient narrator of <em>Mother of 1084<\/em> can feel at times like a self-righteous friend lecturing about the right political line, the book is less a political treatise than a psychological novel about a mother hoping to understand herself and her son. In fact, the real drama of the book is personal: Sujata begins looking for answers in a place that is both geographically and socially distant, a \u201cramshackle house\u201d where cracking walls are \u201cpatched up with cardboard,\u201d and ends up at an old-fashioned two-story building with a porch, a place that is \u201cquite close to her own.\u201d The book ends with Sujata letting out a long cry that \u201cexploded like a massive question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During her keynote speech at the 2013 Jaipur Literature\u00a0Festival, Mahasweta said, \u201cThe more I think and write and think some more, the harder it gets to arrive at a definition. I hesitate. I falter.\u201d In her best writing, she captured not only our usual indifference in the face of injustice but the difficulty of precisely articulating what oppression is. That we might not have the right words is the very reason that Mahasweta Devi is still worth reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Shivani Radhakrishnan is a Ph.D. candidate in social and political philosophy at Columbia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlease don\u2019t write more books. I can\u2019t read so many books,\u201d a little girl once said to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate.\u00a0The little girl was Mahasweta Devi, who grew up to be one of India\u2019s best-known writers and activists. 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