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Relative Study of Mahasweta Devi's 'Dopdi' And Vyasa's 'Draupadi'

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Mahasweta Devi was a Bengali literary legend.

On July 28, 2016, she passed away after a four-year battle with cancer. Her work includes short tales, novels, and children & stories. She was a prolific writer who utilised her pen to portray her political agenda.

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She used her stories in order to highlight the condition of the underprivileged, especially landless labourers and tribals from Bihar and West Bengal. The short story of 'Dopdi', from her short story collection Breast Stories, was my first experience with her writing.

It was originally written in Bengali and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak translated it into English. Because of its daring representation of defiance and rebellion, 'Dopdi' or 'Draupadi' had a lasting impression on me.

This short story is powerful to me not just because it brings to the reader a