Chit fund scam shocking, says Mahasweta Devi

Noted writer Mahasweta Devi today condemned the heckling of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra, saying those who practise such "indecent politics" are alienated from the people.

Indian writers like Vikram Seth, Mahasweta Devi and Manglesh Dabral are quite popular among book readers of Pakistan, writer-author from the neighbouring country Fahmida Riaz said.

Supporting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's decision to withdraw from the UPA last September on the issue of FDI in retail, eminent writer Mahasweta Devi Tuesday exhorted people from all walks of life to protest against the measure."Of course, I ...

Kolkata, May 7: Alleging that many people, including Maoists, have been jailed without trial in West Bengal, Magsaysay award winning writer Mahasweta Devi said human rights groups would ask Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to withdraw forces from Maoist areas.

Kolkata, April 11: Condemning the treatment meted out to the West Bengal chief minister in Delhi, eminent writer and activist Mahasweta Devi said there was no alternative to Mamata Banerjee.

Magsaysay award winning writer Mahasweta Devi Thursday urged that student politics must be "kept apart" from the general politics."Politics should be kept apart from student politics," she told the media here.Her comments came after Trinamool Congress Chhatra ...

Kolkata: People protested on the streets of Kolkata, women government staff took out a march at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's seat of power, and web users poured scorn on her yesterday, a day after she shouted back at demonstrators in a village ...

Rally organised to increase conscience of the people Kolkata: The state intelligentsia is organising a rally to increase consciousness against incidents of rape and violence against women. In a press note, jointly released on Tuesday, written in ...

One of western academia's foremost literary and post-colonial study theorists, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has built, over nearly 50 years, a formidable sch­olarly reputation. Spivak's work is notoriously difficult, and even co-faculty members at ...