In her ন হন্যতে (It Does Not Die) novel, written as a response to Bengal Nights, Maitreyi Devi describes the romance and the cultural tensions resulted from it. Over forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, Eliade's fictionalized account of their romance. She was the basis for the main character in writer Mircea Eliade's 1933 novel 'La Nuit Bengali' (Bengal Nights).
She published volumes of poetry and prose, wrote many books on her mentor Tagore. In 1942 she wrote about the memories of Tagore in Mumngpoo which was published as 'Mungpoo te Rabindranath' and later translated in English as 'Tagore by Fireside'. In 19 she invited Rabindranath Tagore to stay in her and her husband's house in Mungpoo near Kalimpong, which later became the Rabindra Museum. When her parents realized that the two were tangling amorously, Eliade was asked to leave the DasGupta residence and ordered by Professor DasGupta never to contact Maitreyi again.Īt the age of twenty she was married to a Bengali man D. Her "romance" with Eliade lasted a few months. Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930, the year Romanian-born Mircea Eliade, then twenty-three, came to Calcutta to study with her father.
She graduated from the Jogamaya Devi College, an affiliated undergraduate women's college of the historic University of Calcutta, in Kolkata. She wrote 'Rabindranath-the man behind his poetry'. Her first book of verse appeared when she was sixteen, with a preface by Rabindranath Tagore. Devi was the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protegée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. Maitreyi Devi was a Bengali-born Indian poet and novelist born in 1914.
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