Chief Minister of West Bengal tweeted "India has lost a great writer. Bengal has lost a glorious mother. I have lost a personal guide. Mahasweta Di rest in peace."[7]
Sample of an official tribute to Devi's work.
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- Sep 2020
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1977 novel Aranyer Adhikar (Right to the Forest)
Emphasis here on "forest people."
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I constantly come across the reappearance, in various forms, of folklore, ballads, myths and legends, carried by ordinary people across generations. ...
Orature angle for her work.
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she often depicted the brutal oppression on the tribal people and untouchables by the powerful authoritarian upper-caste landlords, money-lenders, and venal government officials.[
Clearly defined social context for fiction like "The Hunt."
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She lived in the Adivasi villages in West Bengal, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh,
Where Devi was active. But who are the Adivasi?
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- Aug 2020
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better than those monkeys in his own country,
Here the boss uses traditionally negative language applied to Africans. He moves around between vaguely "friendly" though ignorant language choices to directly offensive ones.
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he's a Makulu Baas.'I loved that one!`Mr "Baas" Bradley says most certainly Mr Ford is bigger than him.In fact Mr Ford is the grandmother baas of them all .
The boss in the factory is trying to show that he can speak an African language, but he doesn't understand the literal meaning of the expression, a mistake that Styles immediately conveys to his fellow workers -- in the African language.
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`Gentlemen, he says that when the door opens and his grandmotherwalks inyou must see to it that you are wearing a mask of smiles.
"Mask of smiles" is already an expression that suggests acting a part in real life.
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