The most important
poet of the 60s is Malay Roychowdhury . He started the world-famous
Hungry Movement in Bengali poetry and literature . The Movement was
initially spearheaded by Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury (his elder
brother), Shakti Chattopadhyay, and Haradhon Dhara (alias Debi Roy).
Thirty more poets and artists subsequently joined them, the best-known
being Binoy Majumdar, "Utpal Kumar Basu, Falguni Ray, Subimal Basak,
Tridib Mitra, Shambhu Rakshit, and Anil Karanjai. Roy Choudhury is to
the "Hungryalist Movement" as Stéphane Mallarmé was to Symbolism, Ezra
Pound to Imagism, André Breton to Surrealism, and Allen Ginsberg to the
Beats.
The movement is now known in English as Hungryalism or the "Hungry generation", its name being derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's "In the sowre hungry tyme"; the philosophy was based on Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West". The movement's bulletins were published both in Bengali and infrequently in English as well as Hindi Language by Roy Choudhury since November 1961.
The movement, however, ended in 1965. Thereafter Roy Choudhury ventured out, apart from poetry, into fiction, drama, and essays on social and cultural issues that Bengali people have been suffering from. Howard McCord, formerly English teacher at the Washington State University and later professor of English language and literature at Bowling Green University, who met Roy Choudhury during a visit to Calcutta, has succinctly traced Malay's emergence in these words in Ferlinghetti-edited City Lights Journal 3: "Malay Roy Choudhury, a Bengali poet, has been a central figure in the Hungry Generation's attack on the Indian cultural establishment since the movement began in the early 1960s". He wrote, "acid, destructive, morbid, nihilistic, outrageous, mad, hallucinatory, shrill--these characterise the terrifying and cleansing visions" of Malay Roy Choudhury that "Indian literature must endure if it is to be vital again".
The movement is now known in English as Hungryalism or the "Hungry generation", its name being derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's "In the sowre hungry tyme"; the philosophy was based on Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West". The movement's bulletins were published both in Bengali and infrequently in English as well as Hindi Language by Roy Choudhury since November 1961.
The movement, however, ended in 1965. Thereafter Roy Choudhury ventured out, apart from poetry, into fiction, drama, and essays on social and cultural issues that Bengali people have been suffering from. Howard McCord, formerly English teacher at the Washington State University and later professor of English language and literature at Bowling Green University, who met Roy Choudhury during a visit to Calcutta, has succinctly traced Malay's emergence in these words in Ferlinghetti-edited City Lights Journal 3: "Malay Roy Choudhury, a Bengali poet, has been a central figure in the Hungry Generation's attack on the Indian cultural establishment since the movement began in the early 1960s". He wrote, "acid, destructive, morbid, nihilistic, outrageous, mad, hallucinatory, shrill--these characterise the terrifying and cleansing visions" of Malay Roy Choudhury that "Indian literature must endure if it is to be vital again".
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