Uttaran Das Gupta
:
Hungry Poets and Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg and his sometime lover Peter Orlovsky arrived in Mumbai (thenBombay) on February 15, 1963. For a year, the duo wandered all over northIndia, meeting writers, artists, intellectuals and mendicants. The Indianadventures of Ginsberg and the other Beats have been well
chronicled in Deborah Baker’s book A Blue Hand(2008)
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Whilethe book mentions in detail Ginsberg’s interactions with Bengali poets Sunil Gangopadhyay and Shakti Chattopadhyay, it glosses over his interface with the poets of the avant gardeHungry Generation.
Ginsberg also visited Samir at Chaibhasa village in Jharkhand. He Ginsberg was a significant influence on the Hungryalists and their self
fashioning. My paper will analyse the influence of the Hungry Generation poets on Ginsberg—a subject that has considerable potential but has received little scholarly attention. I recently wrote a feature on
Ginsberg and the Hungry poets inThe Telegraph, Patna. I shall expand on the article and explore the literary and social ramifications of the
interactions between the Bengali and Beat poets.
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