Sahitya Akademi Awardee Writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen Passes Away
- The renowned Indian poet, novelist and academic and the recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, passed away. She was 81.
- Dev Sen won the Sahitya Akademi award in 1999 for her book ‘Naba-Nita’. She was also the recipient of the Padma Shri in 2000.
- She was the former wife of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.