Maitreyi devi and mircea eliade5/19/2023 Bengal Nights is a semi-autobiographical piece of literature based around the time Eliade spent in Calcutta at Surendranath Dasgupta, Maitreyi Devi’s father’s house. She was also the basis for the main character in Romanian writer Mircea Eliade’s 1933 novel Bengal Nights. She wrote Rabindranath-the man behind his poetry.Apart from being a writer, she had also set up an orphanage for needy children later in her life. Her first book of verse appeared when she was sixteen, with a preface by Rabindranath Tagore. She was the founder of the Council for the Promotion of Communal Harmony in 1964, and vice-president of the All-India Women’s Coordinating Council. John’s Diocesan Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Calcutta (now Kolkata) and graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women’s college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. She was the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protégée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She is best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, Na Hanyate (It Does Not Die).ĭevi was born in 1914. Maitreyi Devi 1 September 1914 – 29 January 1989 was an Indian poet and novelist.
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