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Reeta Devi
Reeta Devi Varma, is an Indian social worker and the founder of the Delhi based non governmental organization, Ila Trust. She was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
==Biography==
Reeta Devi, née Reeta Roy, was born on 11 October 1942, in a rich zamindari family in Assam to Dhirendra Roy Chaudhary, a tea broker and Kamala, a doctoral degree holder and reported to be the first woman lecturer of Botany at the Cotton College, Guwahati, Assam. After her graduation, she joined British Airways as an air hostess, against the will of her father, but later, moved to Air India, when she felt the British airline did not offer her opportunity to fly to farther regions.〔 She got married in November 1964, to Manvendra Kishore Dev Burman (Bhim), who came from the royal family of Tripura and was the nephew of Gayatri Devi, the third Maharani of Jaipur.〔
Devi, an avid horse racing fan and a regular at the Friday races at the Kolkata Race Course, who gave a part of her winnings to the Missionaries of Charity of Mother Teresa, led a busy social life.〔 She is reported to have been the subject of portraits of renowned photographers such as David Bailey and Anthony Snowdon and has made a cameo appearance, as herself, in the 1971 Satyajit Ray movie, Seemabaddha.〔
Manvendra Kishore Dev Burman, Devi's husband, whose favorite past time was twice daily feeding the stray dogs of Khan Market area of Delhi, has since died, leaving her no children.〔〔 She lives in Delhi, in the neighbourhood where the renowned writer, Kushwant Singh lived, attending to her duties as the head of Ila Trust.〔
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