Mahasweta Devi writes about slavery and exile of indigenous tribes. Devi has been actively associated with many grassroot level social movements related to bonded labour, feudalism and forceful acquisition of agricultural land. She does not merely capture tribal communities living at the edges of the forest but also writes about the upper middle class urban society within the larger frame of the Naxalite movement and Emergency in Mother of 1084 , Devi brings out the cold-blooded killing of young men, inhuman maiming of activists in police cells and the response of the people to such killings in order to quash underground political activism . Her fiction thus violates the threshold of radical political dialogue to cross-examine the independent nation from within. Devi brings in contemporary women characters across the social spectrum not simply to exhibit their maternal sensibilities and anxieties but to document their sensitization to various social and political issues. Mother of 1084 presents the quest as well as awakening of an ‘apolitical’ mother,Sujata of the seventies in Calcutta.