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Trinamool got too much power too soon: Mahasweta Devi

'The chief minister has to remember that the people of Bengal have suffered a lot. They waited for three decades for a change in rule. Hence, they are impatient and want fast and effective......

Author Mahasweta Devi resigns from Bangla Academy

Noted writer and human rights activist Mahasweta Devi has resigned as the chairperson of the Bangla Academy. The Magsaysay Award-winner decided to step down after expressing her disagreement......

Mahasweta Devi resigns as Bangla Academy chairperson

Upset over the West Bengal government not accepting her recommendation of an author for the Vidyasagar award, activist-writer Mahasweta Devi today resigned as chairperson of Bangla Academy saying......

Now Mahashweta Devi says she has full faith in Mamata

Two days after she dubbed the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal as 'fascist', Magsaysay award winner social activist Mahashweta Devi has said she had full faith in the chief minister. "I......

Mahasweta Devi calls Trinamool Congress a 'fascist party'

Noted writer and human rights activist Mahasweta Devi, who had actively campaigned for Trinamool Congress before the West Bengal assembly elections, on Monday described the government as 'fascist'......

Bengal unclear on people displaced by projects

The West Bengal government has earmarked 30,000 acres for industrial projects (around 7,000 acres has been allocated, the rest is at different stages of acquisition), but even as it faces one of......

'I am ready to sell my stories'

Magsaysay Award winner Mahasweta Devi isset to have her stories adapted on film.After earning accolades forthe Bengali teleserialProti Chuanno Minute (Every 54 Minutes), which she wrote, the......

'Soumitra Chatterjee was an extraordinary editor'

Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee has been awarded the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke award, and praise has been coming in from all quarters. Social activist and writer Mahasweta Devi has......

SRK roots for Chitra Palekar

Chitra Palekar's eyes well up when she recalls how Shah Rukh Khan held her handsthe other day telling her how much he had heard about her directorial debut, the Marathi-language film Maati Maay (A......

KANK, Kabul Express go to Toronto film festival

Five years after he missed showing Asoka at the Toronto International Film Festival (the print was lost in transit from New York to Toronto on 9/11), Shah Rukh Khan will have the pride of seeing......

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Supporting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's decision to withdraw from the UPA last September on the issue of FDI in retail, eminent... ...

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Women in search of a community

In Women Writing Violence, Shreerekha Subramanian provides an intense and close reading of a few literary texts which are indisputably feminist... ...

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Trinamool got too much power too soon: Mahasweta Devi

Author Mahasweta Devi resigns from Bangla Academy

Mahasweta Devi resigns as Bangla Academy chairperson

Now Mahashweta Devi says she has full faith in Mamata

Mahasweta Devi calls Trinamool Congress a 'fascist party'

Bengal unclear on people displaced by projects

'I am ready to sell my stories'

'Soumitra Chatterjee was an extraordinary editor'

SRK roots for Chitra Palekar

KANK, Kabul Express go to Toronto film festival

People speak for mahasweta devi

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