Maitreyi Devi

Maitreyi Devi (or Maitreyī Devī; 10 September 1914 – 4 February 1990 She published her first book of poetry in 1930, at age 16, with a preface by Tagore.

By this time she was already attending university, the Romanian intellectual Mircea Eliade was invited by her father to stay at their house. when she was 20 Her works include Mongpute Rabindranath (Tagore by The Fire Side), a record of his visit with her. In late 1972, she published a collection of poems, Aditya Marichi (Sun Rays), which references Eliade, and according to Ginu Kamani, writing for the Toronto Review, "reflect the turbulence she felt at dealing, at the age of fifty eight, forty-two years after the fact of their involvement, with the old passions of her youth."

After traveling to the University of Chicago to give lectures on Tagore, where Eliade was a professor, and meeting with him several times, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1976. Nina Mehta, in a review for the Chicago Tribune, writes, "Devi rubbishes the sex scenes and a few particulars in Eliade's novel, claiming that Alain's confessional tone elides the truth, that his memory implies false facts. Yet ironically, and perhaps waggishly, she answers Eliade's fiction by giving a larger credence to the fantasy he created." The book has been translated into various European languages, including Romanian. Rabindranath—The Man behind His Poetry, 1973 It Does Not Die: A Romance, 1974 রবীন্দ্রনাথ গৃহে ও বিশ্বে (Rabindranath at home and in the world) মংপুতে রবীন্দ্রনাথ (Rabindranath at Mangpu)