My name is Samir Basu, aged 23, son of Late Rakhal Chandra Basu of 5/A Moti Lal Seal Lane, Calcutta 11.
I am an MA in Bengali from Calcutta University and unemployed. I am also a writer and used to visit the College Street Coffee House where young writers of Calcutta generally assemble in the evening. I came to know the sponsors of Hungry Generation, namely Shakti Chatterjee, Utpal Bose, Malay Roychoudhury and Samir Roychoudhury.
Myself and few other writers, namely Ananda Chatterjee, Malay Dasgupta, Shankar Dey and others did not approve the approach of Hungry Generation writers to literature.
According to me their writing manifested mental perversion and language is vulgar. This literary movement was initiated by Shakti Chatterjee inspired by foreign Beat poets ; but Malay Roychoudhury is not leader of the campaign. I was also asked to contribute to the publication of Hungry Generation but I declined.
I had occasion to come across some of the manifesto which they distributed in the Coffee House. The particular booklet in question was prepared at the initiation of Malay Roychoudhury. I saw him approaching the writers in the Coffee House for contribution. I also saw a copy of the booklet and strongly condemned the poem entitled "প্রচণ্ড বৈদ্যুতিক ছুতার" composed by Malay Roychoudhury.
I personally feel that indulgence in such obscenity in the name of literature should be stopped forthwith.
Samir Basu
4th September 1964
( Samir Basu was challenged outside the Court House for his being an informer. He started running away. Later in Coffe House Shankar Dey, Malay Dasgupta said that they did not know who this Samir Basu was. However it became clear that his job was, like Pabitra Ballabh, to collect printed matter from Coffee House and deposit at the Press Section of Lalbazar Police Station, Calcutta. )
Hungry Generation bulletin in question which has been reprinted in 'Haowa49' magazine at the Book Fair, 2018
Haowa49 Book Fair issue, 2018
I am an MA in Bengali from Calcutta University and unemployed. I am also a writer and used to visit the College Street Coffee House where young writers of Calcutta generally assemble in the evening. I came to know the sponsors of Hungry Generation, namely Shakti Chatterjee, Utpal Bose, Malay Roychoudhury and Samir Roychoudhury.
Myself and few other writers, namely Ananda Chatterjee, Malay Dasgupta, Shankar Dey and others did not approve the approach of Hungry Generation writers to literature.
According to me their writing manifested mental perversion and language is vulgar. This literary movement was initiated by Shakti Chatterjee inspired by foreign Beat poets ; but Malay Roychoudhury is not leader of the campaign. I was also asked to contribute to the publication of Hungry Generation but I declined.
I had occasion to come across some of the manifesto which they distributed in the Coffee House. The particular booklet in question was prepared at the initiation of Malay Roychoudhury. I saw him approaching the writers in the Coffee House for contribution. I also saw a copy of the booklet and strongly condemned the poem entitled "প্রচণ্ড বৈদ্যুতিক ছুতার" composed by Malay Roychoudhury.
I personally feel that indulgence in such obscenity in the name of literature should be stopped forthwith.
Samir Basu
4th September 1964
( Samir Basu was challenged outside the Court House for his being an informer. He started running away. Later in Coffe House Shankar Dey, Malay Dasgupta said that they did not know who this Samir Basu was. However it became clear that his job was, like Pabitra Ballabh, to collect printed matter from Coffee House and deposit at the Press Section of Lalbazar Police Station, Calcutta. )
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