Malay Roychoudhury, born under the sign of Leo which is Simha in Bengali, launched The Hungryalist Movement
It was obvious that Malay Roychoudhury ( 1939 ), who was born under the sign of Leo and spent his impressionable childhood in Patna's Imlitala slum will be the force behind the Hungryalist movement, the first Anti-Establishment counter cultural movement in West Bengal. With his leadership qualities and ability to organize he gathered around himself about thirty to forty young men to launch the Hungryalist movement from his Patna residence on 1st November 1961. He masterminded to hand over the editorship of the one-page mouthpiece to an under-caste named Haradhon Dhara who at that time lived in a Howrah slum. Malay Roychoudhury was well educated with good academic results and his command over Bengali was immaculate. His English also was admired by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ca...