Mamata visits Mahasweta Devi

Press Trust of India Kolkata

Last Updated : Jan 13 2014 | 10:57 PM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today visited the house of eminent writer Mahasweta Devi to greet her a day before her birthday.

The Jnanpith award winner writer will turn 88 tomorrow.

Mahasweta Devi's relation with Banerjee has fluctuated over the yeas.

The eminent writer supported Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief during the Singur and Nandigram movement. But when the TMC government came to power in West Bengal, Mahasweta Devi had called the state government "fascist".