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The Hungry Generation (Bengali হাংরি জেনারেশান ) was a literary movement in the Bengali Language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet (Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, and Debi Roy) during the 1960s in Kolkata, India. Due to their involvement in this avante garde cultural movement, the leaders lost their jobs and were jailed. Dr. Uttam Das, Reader, Calcutta University, in his dissertation ‘Hungry Shruti and Shastravirodhi Andolan’ has explained how they challenged and significantly changed the language and the vocabulary used by contemporary writers to express their feelings in literature and painting. The approach of the Hungryalists was to confront and disturb the prospective readers’ preconceived colonial canons. According to Pradip Choudhuri, a leading philosopher and poet of the generation, whose works have been extensively translated in French, their counter-discourse was the first voice of post-colonial freedom of pen and brush. READ MORE HERE

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