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Dev Sen was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a Bengali family on 13 January 1938. She was the only child of the poet-couple Narendra Dev (Narendra Deb 1888–1971, son of Nagendra Chandra Deb) and Radharani Devi (1903–1989), who wrote under the pen name Aparajita Devi. She was given her name by Rabindranath Tagore.
Nov 7, 2019 · Kolkata | Updated: November 7, 2019 22:04 IST. Follow Us. Recently, Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee had paid a visit to Dev Sen at her residence. Eminent poet and novelist Nabaneeta Dev Sen passed away at her Hindustan Park residence Thursday evening. She was 81.
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Nandana Dev Sen is an Indian-born American actress, screenwriter, children's author and child-rights activist. [3] [4] Her first film role in Bollywood was Sanjay Leela Bhansali 's Black (2005), starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee , in which she played the role of Rani's 17-year-old younger sister.
Nov 13, 2019 · In 1959, Dev Sen married economist Amartya Sen, the future Nobel Laureate, and, for the next several years, lived with him in the US and UK as he went on to teach at different universities. She completed her PhD from Indiana University in 1964, gave birth to two daughters, then returned to India in 1974 as her marriage began to fall apart.
Nov 8, 2019 · On Thursday, November 8, Kolkata lost one of its most beloved literary figures. The great novelist, poet and scholar Nabaneeta Dev Sen, 81, passed away in Kolkata after battling cancer. She is...
Nabaneeta Dev Sen at an event in Kolkata on June 19, 2011. (Samir Jana/HT Archive) Nabaneeta di used to hate the fact that her poetry, and women’s poetry in general, is often assumed to be ...
Nov 9, 2019 · Dev Sen’s accomplishments were many. A winner of many honours and prizes, including the Mahadevi Verma Prize in 1992, Sahitya Akademi award in 1999, and Padma Shri in 2000, she was a professor of comparative literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, until her retirement in 2002.
