Nurturing Sylvan Children in Mahasweta Devi’s The Book Of The Hunter

Abstract

According to Vijayaraghavan, elitists are those academicians, writers and “seminar – crawlers” who contribute enough and more towards the literature of the subject. Ramachandra Guha and Madhav Gadgil are elitists whose contributions in categorizing the issues based on perspectives and in shaping public policies respectively are deemed to be “mostly verbiage” by Vijayaraghavan. Unlike them people at the helm of populism like Chandi Prasad Bhatt, Sunderlal Bahuguna and Medha Patkar have through their active participation lent their hands in safeguarding Mother Earth. And to this list of leading figures of populism, can be added the name of Mahasweta Devi.