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==Biography==
{{quotebox|align = left|width=21em|''When you see a 13-year-old who has to abort a four-month foetus by her own father, then you realize your whole life has been wasted. You realize how useless you are. Between the law, the press, and the army of do-gooders, the child's put away in the cupboard,'' says Reeta Devi.<ref name="TOI" />}}
Reeta Devi, née Reeta Roy, was born on 11 October 1942,<ref name="My fair ladies: the costume designer and the altruist">{{cite journal | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/columns/my-fair-ladies-the-costume-designer-and-the-altruist/article1-617011.aspx | title=My fair ladies: the costume designer and the altruist | author=Kushwant Singh | journal=The Hindustan Times |date=October year=2010 | month=October}}</ref> 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.<ref name="TOI">{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/stoi/She-could-have-danced-all-night/articleshow/33153644.cms | title=TOI | publisher=TOI | date=28 January 2001 | accessdate=December 5, 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref name="TOI" /> 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.<ref name="TOI" /><ref name="Tripura Princely Sate">{{cite web | url=https://sites.google.com/site/theprincelystates/t/tripura | title=Tripura Princely Sate | publisher=Tripura Princely Sate | date=2014 | accessdate=December 5, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Ancestry">{{cite web | url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~princelystates/states/t/tripura.html | title=Ancestry | publisher=Ancestry.com | date=2014 | accessdate=December 5, 2014}}</ref>
 
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.<ref name="TOI" /> 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]].<ref name="TOI" />
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==Further reading==
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/comment/columns/my-fair-ladies-the-costume-designer-and-the-altruist/article1-617011.aspx | title=My fair ladies: the costume designer and the altruist | author=Kushwant Singh | journal=The Hindustan Times |date=October year=2010 | month=October}}
* {{cite news | url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/103405/content/217834/F | title=Healers and Dealers | work=Column | date=9 October 2010 | agency=Deccan Herlad | accessdate=December 5, 2014 | author=Khushwant Singh}}
 
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