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  <name><![CDATA[Mahasweta Devi]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Mahasweta Devi was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents. Her father Manish Ghatak was a poet, novelist , a social activist and deeply involved with IPTA, and elder brother of noted filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak, and her mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker. Her first schooling was in Dhaka, but after the partition of India she moved to West Bengal in India. She joined the Rabindranath Tagore founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright and actor Bijon Bhattacharya.]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Dhaka</hometown>  <born_at>01/14/1926</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Imaginary Maps]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mother of 1084]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Mahasweta Devi Breast Stories]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bitter Soil]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Five Plays]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Titu Mir]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Armenian Champa Tree]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Till Death Do Us Part]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Chotti Munda and His Arrow]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Bashai Tudu]]></title>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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