MAHASWETA DEVI’S MOTHER OF 1084: A WITNESS TO THE MACABRE INCIDENTS OF STATE VIOLENCE ON THE VIBRANT YOUTHS OF BENGAL
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Naxalite movement was one the most agitating moments in post colonial India. Naxalbari village of West Bengal was the breeding ground of the movement which began as a rural revolt of landless workers and tribal people against the oppressive landlords and moneylenders. It started in 1967 under the leaderships of Charu Mazumdar and Kanu Sanyal. Within a very short span of time, the flame of the movement engulfed a larger section of the Bengali society. Written in the backdrop of this very movement, Mahasweta Devi’s novel Mother of 1084 (later it was transformed into a play, and henceforth it is taken as a play in the present paper) has attained a charismatic height in the realm of literature documenting the socio-political and economic history of India. In an interview Devi said,
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Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh is a Ph. D. scholar at Magadh University. He is an M.A. in English. He has qualified UGC NET in English. He has attended in many national and international seminars. He has presented paper in national seminars. He is a member of CLAI (Comparative Literature Association of India). His research papers have been published in reputed literary journals. He takes interest in Indian Writing in English, folk, film, books, socio-political issues, and creative writing. His favourite writers and personalities include R.K. Narayan, G.B. Shaw, Ernest Hemingway, Rabindranath Tagore, and Mahatma Gandhi.
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