Maitreyi Devi
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Maitreyi Devi was an Indian poet and novelist. She is best known for her Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, Na Hanyate.
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Mircea Eliade
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Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and in
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…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. After several months, when her parents discovered the 23-year-old Eliade and Devi had an intimate…
Eliade in 1933
Eliade's home in Bucharest (1934–1940)
Eliade's grave at Oak Woods Cemetery
Moses taking off his shoes in front of the burning bush (illustration from a 16th-century edition of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis)