Literary Conquest

 ABOUT MAHASWETA DEVI M ahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) was an Indian Bengali writer and activist. She was born in Dhaka, British India (now Bangladesh), into a middle-class Brahmin family. Her father, Manish Ghatak, was a poet and novelist of the Kallol movement, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa (Bengali: যুবনাশ্ব). Ghatak's brother was filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak. Devi's mother, Dharitri Devi, was also a writer and a social worker whose brothers include sculptor Sankha Chaudhury and the founder-editor of Economic and Political Weekly of India, Sachin Chaudhury. Mahasweta Devi did her schooling in Dhaka and then in Santiniketan, where she studied English literature at Visva-Bharati University. After graduating, she moved to Kolkata, where she worked as a journalist and a teacher. She began writing short stories in the early 1950s, and her first collection of stories, Jhansi Rani, was published in 1956. In the following decades, she wrote extensively on a wide range...

 ABOUT  E.A.POE E dgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He was the first well-known American writer to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career. Poe was born in Boston, the second child of actors David Poe and Elizabeth "Eliza" Arnold Hopkins Poe. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and when his mother died the following year, Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Virginia. They never formally adopted him, but he was with them well into young adulthood. Poe attended the University of Virginia for one year but lef...

About Khushwant Singh K hushwant Singh (2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, journalist, lawyer, diplomat, and politician. He was known for his witty and outspoken writing, and he was one of the most popular and controversial figures in Indian society. Singh was born in Hadali, Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan). He was the younger son of Sir Sobha Singh, a prominent builder, and Veeran Bai. He was educated at the Modern School, New Delhi, and the Government College, Lahore. He then went on to study law at King's College, London. After graduating from law school, Singh returned to India and joined the Indian Foreign Service. He served in the Foreign Service for four years, from 1943 to 1947. During this time, he was posted to London and Ottawa. In 1947, Singh left the Foreign Service to pursue a career in journalism. He joined the staff of the Illustrated Weekly of India, where he worked as a columnist and editor. He also wrote for other publications, includ...