It was Sunil Gangopadhyay who sabotaged the Hungryalist movement of Literature and Culture in West Bengal. When the movement gathered steam at Calcutta in special and India in general, he was in Iowa, USA for learning how to write poems. His friends kept on writing him that the Hungryalists have arrived as a potent force in Calcutta's cultural and literary scene and they are being highlighted in the Bengali and English dailies and periodicals, inasmuch as the daily 'Jugantar' had written editorials on them and cartoons were being published in main Bengali and English newspapers and headlines were appearing in Bengali broadsides against the Hungryalists to provoke the Establishment and the Police. Several literary periodicals had started writing about the Hungryalists which had never happened earlier in the history of Bengali literature and culture.
Sunil Gangopadhyay, who was associated with the Establishment lobby started writing angry letters to Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Utpalkumar Basu so that they leave the Hungryalist movement immediately. He also wrote a letter threatening Malay Roychoudhury that after he returns from USA he will see to it that the Hungryalist movement is dismantled.
Sunil Gangopadhyay returned from USA and Police filed charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in Malay Roychoudhury's poem Stark Electric Jesus ( Prachando Baidyutik Chhutar ). Eleven Hungryalists were served with arrest warrents and six Hungryalists viz, Samir Roychoudhury, Debi Roy, Malay Roychoudhury, Pradip Choudhuri, Saileswar Ghosh and Subhash Ghosh were arrested. Malay Roychoudhury being the leader of the movement was handcuffed, a rope tied to his waist and he was forced to march from lock up to Court along with several criminals, an event unknown in the history of literature.
Sunil Gangopadhyay went on to become a powerful literary personality in the Indian Government's Literature Academy and bestowed the highest prizes to Sandipan chattopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay and Utpalkumar Basu for having ditched the Hungryalist movement. These three writers became Police witness against Malay Roychoudhury in the Court Case against Roychoudhury's poem Stark Electric Jesus. Roychoudhury was sentenced for a month for the testimony of these witnesses in the Calcutta Court.
Sunil Gangopadhyay went to the extent of writing an editorial against the Hungryalist movement in 'Krittibas' magazine. It is really a travesty of literary history that 'Krittibas' magazine was funded by Samir Roychoudhury, one of the founding fathers of the Hungryalist movement and a member of The Hungryalist Quartet.
Sunil Gangopadhyay, who was associated with the Establishment lobby started writing angry letters to Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Utpalkumar Basu so that they leave the Hungryalist movement immediately. He also wrote a letter threatening Malay Roychoudhury that after he returns from USA he will see to it that the Hungryalist movement is dismantled.
Sunil Gangopadhyay returned from USA and Police filed charges of conspiracy against the State and Obscenity in Malay Roychoudhury's poem Stark Electric Jesus ( Prachando Baidyutik Chhutar ). Eleven Hungryalists were served with arrest warrents and six Hungryalists viz, Samir Roychoudhury, Debi Roy, Malay Roychoudhury, Pradip Choudhuri, Saileswar Ghosh and Subhash Ghosh were arrested. Malay Roychoudhury being the leader of the movement was handcuffed, a rope tied to his waist and he was forced to march from lock up to Court along with several criminals, an event unknown in the history of literature.
Sunil Gangopadhyay went on to become a powerful literary personality in the Indian Government's Literature Academy and bestowed the highest prizes to Sandipan chattopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay and Utpalkumar Basu for having ditched the Hungryalist movement. These three writers became Police witness against Malay Roychoudhury in the Court Case against Roychoudhury's poem Stark Electric Jesus. Roychoudhury was sentenced for a month for the testimony of these witnesses in the Calcutta Court.
Sunil Gangopadhyay went to the extent of writing an editorial against the Hungryalist movement in 'Krittibas' magazine. It is really a travesty of literary history that 'Krittibas' magazine was funded by Samir Roychoudhury, one of the founding fathers of the Hungryalist movement and a member of The Hungryalist Quartet.
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