Breast Giver
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Breast Giver Mahasweta Devi
Awards
Sahitya Akademi Award (1979)
Aranyer Adhikar
Padma Shri Award (1986)
Fourth Highest Civilian Award
Jnanpith Award (1996)
Hajar Churashir Maa (No. 1084’s Mother)
Ramon Magsaysay Award (1997)
Considered the Asian Equivalent of the Nobel Prize
Padma Vibhushan (2006)
Second Highest Civilian Award
Banga Bibushan (2011)
One of the first recipients of the award
One of India’s best authors
The leading contemporary writer in Bengali.
Bengali is the language of the people of Bangladesh and Indian state West Bengal.
She was born in 1926 in Dhaka,Bangladesh (former East-Bengal).
She is from a well known and intellectual family.
Graduated in 1946 from Santiniketan (founded by Rabindranath Tagore) in Calcutta.
She devoted several years to political activism in rural Bengal with her first husband.
In 1963, she received her Master's degree in English Literature from Calcutta University and became a professor of English at a Calcutta college.
How did Jashoda’s self-sacrifice put her in the worst position?