Abstract

Mahaswetav Devi was one of India�s foremost literary figures from the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries���-a writer and social activist in equal right. Though she had never declared anywhere that she is a feminist or a reformer but she dedicated her life to a cause � to fight for the cause of the welfare of the tribal, the downtrodden and the under previleged. She tried hard to protect the rights of the tribes, dalits and the rural poor and the helpless women and she also strove hard for the eradication of untouchability, bonded labour, the suppression of women. She wants human treatment to dalits and tribes and women and children. This paper deals with a collection of stories called "Breast Stories" in which three stories Draupadi, Behind the Bodice and Breast Giver are taken as a tool for research work. In one of her stories, Draupadi, the girl from the Dalit tribe who is subjected to brutal rape and inhuman torture is represented by Mahasweta Devi as the Dalit who can truly "speak".

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