She is also an activist who is dedicated to the struggles of tribal people in Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Recently, she is more famous for her work related to the study of the Lodhas and Shabars, the tribal communities of West Bengal, women and dalits. During that period she also worked as a journalist and as a creative writer.

During those days, Bijoygarh College was an institution for working class women students. In 1964, she began teaching at Bijoygarh College (an affiliated college of the University of Calcutta system). She got divorced from Bijon Bhattacharya in 1959. In 1948, she gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal's and India's leading novelist whose works are noted for their intellectual vigour and philosophical flavour. She later married renowned playwright Bijon Bhattacharya who was one of the founding fathers of the IPTA movement. in English at Calcutta University as well. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. Mahasweta's mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer.

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