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Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards, amongst several other literary honors. She was also awarded the Padmasree for her activist work amongst dispossessed tribal communities.

• Dewana, Khoimala and the Holy Banyan Tree
In this masterful and deeply sensitive tale, Mahasweta Devi once again interweaves a social tapestry and the detail of human lives, crating a powerful tale of love, longing and passion set in time when the British are beginning to consolidate their hold on Bengal.

• Romtha
A beautiful tale of passion, vengeance and the overwhelming hunger for life.

• Bait - Four Stories
Unlike most of her works, which focus on tribals and the rural dispossessed, the four stories in this collection are located in the urban and suburban underworld, and form an unusual segment of Mahasweta Devi’s oeuvre.

• In the Name of the Mother - Four Stories
The stories in this volume are linked by a common thread: the idea of the mother. They represent a range of responses to the concept of the maternal, exposing how the traditional deification of motherhood in India often conceals a collective exploitation and attempt to restrict women to their socially prescribed roles.

• Breast stories
Translated from original Bengali by critic and scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, this cluster of short fiction has a common motif: the breast. The breast, as the translator points out in her introduction, is far more than a symbol in these stories. It becomes the means of a harsh indictment of an exploitative social system. In 'Draupadi', the protagonist, Dopdi Mejhen, is a tribal revolutionary, who, arrested and gang-raped in custody, turns the terrible wounds of her breast into a counter-offensive.

• Bitter Soil - Stories by Mahasweta Devi
With an introduction by Mahasweta Devi herself, this book, translated from original Bengali, contains four of her most powerful stories - all set in Palamau.

• Dust on the Road - The Activist Writings of Mahasweta Devi
A collection of her activist prose including most of her articles in English, several Bengali pieces in translation, and editorials from her journal Bortika.In the late 70s, Mahasweta Devi turned her attention to the marginalized tribals and untouchable poor of eastern India. She traveled widely, living with and building an intimate connection with them; and she began to contribute articles to several leading newspapers and journals, drawing on firsthand experience.

• Rudali
Translated from original Bengali, this piece of short fiction was earlier adapted and produced as a play in Hindi and later made into an acclaimed full length feature film. Both the short story and the play are included in this volume, along with an introductory essay that studies how and why the versions are different and what the changes signify, leading to an analysis of how the metamorphosis of Rudali allows us to address the simultaneity and asymmetry of feminist positions in this country today.

• Till Death Do us Part
This volume, spanning over three decades of writing, shows an unusually tender side to Mahasweta Devi, widely known for her satiric prose and biting indictment of societal inequities.

• Old Women - Selected Works of Mahasweta Devi
The two stories in this collection, 'Statue' and 'The Fairy Tale of Mohanpur', are touching , poignant tales, in both of which the protagonists are old women. Mahasweta Devi is at her most tender in her sensitive, delicately drawn portraits of these two old women although her trenchant pen is ruthless as ever in delineating the socio-economic oppression within which they are forced to survive. Though extremely readable as moving stories for the fiction lover, they also yield layers of deeper significance upon closer reading.

• Titu Mir
In this warmly told historical adventure tale, Mahasweta Devi brings history alive in the person of a charismatic hero.

• The Queen of Jhansi
Mahasewta Devi's first book, it traces the history of growing resistance to the British which came to a head with the 1857 uprisings.

• Imaginary Maps
An omnibus of three outstanding works of contemporary Indian fiction translated from original Bengali with a long interview with the author. This collection comprises three novels of Mahasweta Devi. These are:(1) The Hunt, (2) Douloti the Beautiful, and (3) Pteroactyl, Puran Sahay and Pirtha.

• Bashai Tudu
An original mix of documentary realism and revolutionary fantasy, history and fiction, so characteristic of Mahasweta Devi, the outstanding contemporary Bengali novelist. Translated from Bengali original, Bashai Tudu - a novelette and Draupadi, a short story, evokes a modern myth of a tribal peasant revolutionary.

• Shaalgirah kee Pukar par (HINDI)
Hindi translation of Bangla original by renowned fiction writer known for her activist writings.

• Shri Shriganesh Mahima (HINDI)
Hindi translation of Bangla original by much acclaimed Bengali fiction writer who is famous for her activist writings.

• Neel Chhavi (HINDI)
A Hindi translation of Bangla original by famous Bengali writer known for her activist writings.

• Jangal ke Davedar (HINDI)
Hindi translation of Bangla original by famous Bengali writer acclaimed for her activist writings.

• Eent ke upar Eent - Hindi
A translation in Hindi of Bangla original by famous Bengali writer who has won much acclaim and honor for her activist writings.

• 1084ven ki Maan (HINDI)
Hindi translation of a famous novel from Bangla original by a well-known Bengali writer famous for her activist writings.

• Five Plays
These plays are rooted in history and folk myth as well as in contemporary reality. The socio-economic milieus offers a view of India rarely seen in literature.Five plays are Mother of 1084, Aajir, Urvashi and Johnny, Bayen, Water.

• Our Non-Veg Cow and other Stories
This volume consists of ten favorite stories, selected by the author, and reveals a fresh new face as a writer of delightfully whimsical and funny stories.

These irresistible stories abound with unlikely and colorful characters: a vehemently non-vegetarian cow, the household pet, who wolfs down fried fish and gets

• Mother of 1084
One of the most widely-read works in Bengal, this book offers an insightful exploration of the complex relationship between the personal and the political.

This sensitive novel deals with the psychological and emotional trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her beloved son is lying

• Krishnadwadashi (HINDI)
Hindi translation of a collection of 3 short stories in Bangla original by famous Bengali writer acclaimed for her activist writings.

• Bania Bahu (HINDI)
A Hindi translation of Bangla original by famous and much acclaimed Bengali writer known for his activist writings.

• 1084ven ki Maan (HINDI)
Hindi translation of a famous novel from Bangla original by a well-known Bengali writer famous for her activist writings.

• The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh
Considered one of Mahasweta Devi's most important work, this novel written in 1981, appeared shortly after her seminal Chhotti Munda and His Arrows.

• Outcast - Four Stories
Mahasweta Devi's acute and perceptive pen brings to life with a deep empathy and sensitivity life stories of four women, who have one thing in common: the unending class, caste and gender exploitation which makes their lives a relentless struggle for survival.

• The Book of the Hunter
This charming, expansive novel set in sixteenth-century medieval Bengal draws on the life of the great medieval poet Kabikankan Mukundaram Chakrabarti, whose epic poem Abhayamangal, better known as Chandimangal, records the socio-political history of the times.

• Chotti Munda and His Arrow
This volume focuses on the gravest of contemporary threats, not only to individual nations and the civilized world, but to the long-term survival of the human race itself, and explores the complex web of terror that has established itself across the globe.

• Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
This book depicts the life story of this great novelist, who is like a historiographer, narrating the saga of the rise, fall, continuation and resurrection of a people.

• Agnigarbha (HINDI)
A translation in Hindi of Bangla original by much acclaimed Bangla fiction writer known for her activist writings.

• Chotti Munda aur uska Teer (HINDI)
A Hindi translation of Bangla original by famous and much acclaimed Bengali writer known for her activist writings.

• Ghaharaati Ghatayen (HINDI)
Hindi translation of Bangla original by legendary Bangali writer known for her activist writings.

• Wrong Number and Other Stories
In her inimitable manner, the author brings us face to face with the reality of oppression and repression that haunts our country.

• Kaattil Urimal (TAMIL)
This book is Tamil translation of Mahasweta Devi's Akademi Award winning novel in Bengali, Aranyan Adhikar. It has been translated by S Krishnamoorthy.

• Kadina Davedara (KANNADA)
This book carries Kannada translation of Sahitya Akademi award winning Bengali Novel -Aranyer Adhikar by noted Bengali novelist Mahasweta Devi. It has been translated by G Kumarappa.

• Verrier Elwin-er Adibasi Jagat (BENGALI)
This book carries Bengali translation by Mahasweta Devi and Prithwis Saha of the Akademi-award winning English autobiography entitled The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin.

• Bedanabala - Her Life, Her Times
Spoken in the first person, these reminiscences of a woman whose mother was rescued from a house of ill-repute construct a history not often documented. A history that runs parallel to the official narrative of India’s modernism and nationalism: that of women outcast because they are ‘fallen’.

• After Kurukshetra
With the ancient epic Mahabharata as her source, and the battle of Kurukshetra as a central motif, Mahasweta Devi weaves three stories in which we visit unexpected alleys and by-lanes of the traditional epic saga.These tales, brewed in the imagination of a master story-teller, make us look at the Mahabharata with new eyes, insisting as they do on the inclusion, within the master narrative, of the fates and viewpoints of those previously unrepresented therein: women and the underclass.

• The Bell - Stories
This book presents an eclectic collection of stories in reader friendly translations. Fine short fiction from across India, this collection is a sure way of knowing India through her stories.

• Bhiku's Diary
Dip into an unusual mix of unforgettable short fiction – fiction that is sure to enchant, amuse and provoke. This book from the Pocket Plus series presents an eclectic collection of stories in reader friendly translations.

• The Verdict - Stories
This book presents an eclectic collection of stories in reader friendly translations. Fine short fiction from across India, this collection is a sure way of knowing India through her stories.

• Istri - Parv (Short Stories in HINDI)
Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards, amongst several other literary honors. Five stories in this collection show how traditional deification of motherhood in India often conceals a collective exploitation and attempt to restrict women to their socially prescribed roles while denying them the right to articulate their individual needs a desires. At the same time, they also show the strategies evolved by women to survive and circumvent the repression inflicted on them by social norms.

• Durghtana ( Novel in HINDI)
Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards, amongst several other literary honors.This novel presents the changing realities of life and society in Small towns in India.

• Ek Ur Vibhajan (Novel in HINDI)
Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards, amongst several other literary honors. This novel deals with fine human values and communal harmony.

• Master Saab (HINDI)
Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards, amongst several other literary honors. This novel deals not only with the social and political exploitations but also with Naxal thinking and philosophy.

• Bhookh (Novel in HINDI)
This novel is Hindi translation of Bangla original and is rated as a well-acclaimed work of Mahasweta Devi . She is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the form of the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards, amongst several other literary honors. A prolific writer, she has published several works which have been translated into other languages. This novel is one of her well-acclaimed work.

• Daulati (Novel in HINDI)
The three novels in this collection written by much honored writer Mahasweta Devi, center around the exploitation of tribal women in rural Bengal. They bring out the indomitable spirit of these women to fight their way out of the cruel social impasse.

• Aklant Kaurav (Novel in HINDI)
This book is Hindi translation of Bangla original by well-known and much honored writer and activist Mahashweta Devi.

• Gram - Bangla (Novel in HINDI)
Penned by celebrated writer Mahasweta Devi, seven stories in this collection vividly portray the various aspects of life in rural Bengal, specially the life of marginalized people.

• Untisvin Dhara Ka Aropi (Novel in HINDI)
Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. In this novel, she unfolds a moving story of a police officer who allows one of his captive to escape from custody and surrenders himself to law. This captive happened to be a person who raised the police officer from his childhood, and brought him to a level to stand on his own feet.

• Jali Thee Agnishikha (Novel in HINDI)
This historical novel by much celebrated writer Mahasweta Devi is the story of the famous Rani Luxshmi Bai of Jhansi. It vividly portrays not only the heroics of the Rani but the also the political conflicts and the cruelty of the British rulers.

• Amrit Sanchaya (Novel in HINDI)
This book is Hindi translation of Bangla original by noted and much honored writer and activist Mahashweta Devi.

• Umraqaid (Novel in HINDI)
Mashashweta Devi is a literary legend. Her writings in Bangla original have been translated into English and several regional languages. She has been honored with the highest literary awards and recognized as a social activist. This book is the first Hindi translation of her Bangla novel.

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