She was the basis for the main character in Romanian-born writer Mircea Eliade 's 1933 novel La Nuit Bengali ( Bengal Nights ). The same bhadralok circles in Calcutta were agog at the Romanian��s ��affair�� with a Bengali teenager as they were with the Italian��s seduction of a Bengali married woman. Maitreyi Devi (bn: ) was a Bengali-born Indian poetess and novelist, the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protege of poet Rabindranath Tagore. A counter to Eliade's fantasies, it is also a moving story of what happens. Written forty years apart from each other, La Nuit Bengali (Bengal Nights) by Mircea Eliade and Na Hanyate (It Does Not Die) by Maitreyi Devi are yet two sides of the same coin.While some may call.

Over forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, Eliade's fictionalized account of their romance, It Does Not Die is Devi's response. This romance harks back to another furore �� created by Romanian-born philosopher Mircea Eliade��s steamy, thinly-veiled autobiographical novel Maitreyi published in 1933, translated into many European languages before the French version, La Nuit Bengali, brought it a wider notoriety in 1950. Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930, the year Mircea Eliade, then twenty-three, came to Calcutta to study with her father. The just-released book Under Her Spell: Roberto Rossellini in India reveals that after provoking hundreds of column inches of scandal-sheet venom, the couple finally fled India, helped by none other than then PM Jawaharlal Nehru. The international press hounded him to the Taj hotel in Bombay, trying to fathom the tall, dusky, reclusive Sonali Dasgupta. În rolurile principale joac actorii Hugh Grant, Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Pathak i Shabana Azmi (ultimii trei din India ).

Scenariul este bazat pe romanul din 1933 Maitreyi de Mircea Eliade. When the renowned Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini left the gorgeous Ingrid Bergman for an unknown Bengali woman he met on a sojourn in India in the late 1950s, the world was shocked. La nuit Bengali este un film francez semi-autobiografic din 1988 regizat de Nicolas Klotz.

Maitreyi devi and mircea eliade