Hungry Generation ( Hungryalist Movement )

Thursday, 9 December 2010

From left: Subimal Basak, Subo Acharya, Malay Roychoudhury and me at Subo's Bishnupur house.

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Tomb of Bengali poet Madhusudan Dutt where Hungryalists used to arrange poetry readings in Sixties

Hungryalist Bulletin, 1964

Daniela Cappello interviewing Samir Roychoudhury in 2015

Daniela Cappello is writing her PhD thesis on Hungryalist movement

Daniela Cappello interviewing Malay Roychoudhury in 2017

Daniela Cappello is writing her PhD thesis on Hungryalist movement

Samir Roychoudhury, in front of his Chaibasa hut during the movement

Tridib Mitra, when he wrote HATYAKANDO

Anamika Bandopadhyay delivering a lecture in Denmark

Prof Tarun Sanyal. He defied Communist Party diktat to testify in favour of Hungryalists at the Bankshall Court, Calcutta

Khalasitola, where the Hungryalists used to arrange poetry reading during Sixties

Jyotirmoy Datta. He was a defense witness in support of Malay Roychoudhury during the trial at the Bankshal Court.

Nissim Ezekiel. He had requested Congress for Cultural Freedom to help the Hungryalists during the trial. Since certain Bengali writers opposed it the CFCC did not come forward. Angry Ezekiel wrote in PEN in support of the Hungryalists.

Three famous Hindi writers who extensively wrote in support of the movement during the trial in Sixties.

Film director Gautam Ghose with Subimal Basak.

Film director Gautam Ghose portrayed the role of a Hungryalist poet in the film BAISHE SRABON

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Falguni Ray by Utsab Chatterjee

Tridib Mitra, smoking Marihuana in 1964

Hungryalist painter Anil Karanjai with his researcher Juliet Reynolds

Clinton B Seely discusses Jibanananda Das's influence on Hungryalists

Shakti Chattopadhyay. He was one of the founder members of the movement. Left the movement to join a newspaper group. Later he testified against the Hungryalists in Bankshall Court, Calcutta

George Dowden, who introduced Hungryalist writing to British readers

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Who published Hungryalist writings in three issues of City Lights Journal edited by him.

Followers

Dick Bakken, the American poet who published a special hungryalist issue of his magazine 'Salted Feathers'

Prof Howard McCord who introduced Hungryalist writing to readers in USA

Samir Roychoudhury, one of the founder member

Anil Karanjai, the Hungryalist Painter

Debi Ray ( founder member & publisher of the first Hungryalist manifesto )

Debi Ray ( Foonder member and publisher of first Hungryalist manifesto )

Abu Sayeed Ayyub who was one of them who requested West Bengal administration to take action against the Hungryalist poets and writes in 1964

Tridib Mitra with British Poet George Dowden

Prince of Hungryalist Poetry Tridib Mitra in Sixties

Basudeb Dasgupta, the Hungryalist novelist

Police witness Subhash Ghose who had signed a bond against the Hungry Generation movement

Self portrait of Hungryalist painter Anil Karanjai

Hungryalist painter Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay. Oil painting by Anil Karanjai

First Hungryalist Bulletin

Sandipan Chattopadhyay. One of the original members of the movement. Left in 1963 in order to get his novel published in a newspaper group publication. He testified against the Hungryalists at the Bankshall Court, Calcutta.

Jerome Rothenberg, who participated in the Hungryalist poetry reading at St Marks Church during Sixties. He included Hungryalist poem in POEMS OF THE MILLENNIUM