ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Soma Mukhopadhyay speaks about her sister in an objective and academic manner. She praises Mahasweta Devi’s sterling qualities and outstanding achievements in life, but concludes with the stoic acceptance of the reality of circumstances, where her sister’s internationally renowned voice, which inspired the world, has now been silenced by cruel fate. In the area washed by the river Padma, as soon as the monsoons broke, the banks of the river would begin to collapse and break. As a result, overnight, one had to gather all available resources and, with every member of the family, relocate to relatively higher areas and set up house again. Mahasweta Devi had never thought that she would make a living out of her writing. Due to family necessities she had to take up a job. The undivided Communist Party was one great activist family, who never knew how to lock themselves up for their selfish pleasure in a prison of their own.
