Debi
Roy ( August 4, 1940 ) is one of the founding fathers of the Hungry
generation movement in Bengali literature. He is also the first modern
Dalit poet in Bengali. He was born in a very poor family and worked as
an errand boy in tea stalls of Calcutta when his parents lived in a slum
in Howrah. He funded his own education and became a graduate of
Calcutta University. He started writing from his childhood. Debi Roy met
Malay Roy Choudhury in an office of a literary periodical in 1960 and the two of them, after discussions with Shakti Chattopadhyay and Samir Roychoudhury launched the now famous Hungryalist movement in November 1961. His Howrah slum-room was the editorial office from where the Hungryalist Bulletins and Hungryalist
Manifestoes were published. Along with ten other Hungryalists, Debi Roy
was also arrested in 1964 on charges of obscenity in poetry though the
trial court exonerated him.
Debi Roy with his parents
Debi Roy with his parents
He developed a new kind of sentences in his poems which have now come
to be known as logical breaks as well as image jumping. Subsequent
Bengali poets have followed the method into the next century. As a
result he is considered one of the first Postmodern Bengali poet.
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