Though Mahasweta Devi was a bitter critic of the Left for the past 10 years, her intellectual moorings was initially with the Left. Read | Mahasweta Devi: She was a commandant, leader and the loss is irreversibleDevi had to suffer the pain of her son’s death on July 31, 2014. Read | Mahasweta Devi lived like she wrote: Fearlessly and without restraint“India has lost a great writer. Mahasweta Devi at her Calcutta residence in 1984. Renowned Bengali author and activist Mahasweta Devi died in a Kolkata nursing home on Thursday, leaving behind a formidable literary legacy that focused on the lives of marginalized communities.

Source: Hindustan Times July 28, 2016 10:32 UTC