A Voice for the Marginalized: A Selected Study of the Plays of Mahasweta Devi

Thus, Mahasweta Devi is an activist as well as a writer, and even as a writer she is an activist. Since she believes that mere sympathizing with the poor doesn’t help, she lives with them in order to bring their grievance and demands to the view of a generally indifferent bureaucracy and set off movement for the redress of different modes of exploitation. So the subjects of her works become the subjects of her life. In fact, the main thrust in the bulk of her creative work is the release of human soul forms all kinds of oppression. Hence, her creative works, in spite of being influenced by a sense of sympathy for the suffering humanity appears to be stereotyped in terms of content. Mahasweta Devi defends her infatuation with the cause of people who perpetually below the poverty level.