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Letters to Malay Roychoudhury during Hungry Generation movement'

Letters from Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Paz and others Introduced by Gargi Ghosh Dastidar (These letters are of immense importance to readers and researchers of The Hungry Generation Movement which took place in Bengali literature during the sixties. Tridib Mitra, one of the eminent members of the movement had edited and published these letters when the movement became famous throughout the world. Only 200 copies were published, as the legend goes, and it has become impossible to trace out a copy, except for in Subimal Basak’s Archive at 22/6 Verner Lane, Kolkata 700 056, and Sandip Dutta’s Hungryalist Archive at 18M Tamer Lane, Kolkata 700 009. In view of growing interest evinced by M. Phil. and Ph.D. students of various Universities, I have decided to place it on the Web. The cover of the collection was designed by Argentinian artist Carlos Coffen, which was facilitated by Margaret Randall, the then editor of El Corno Emplumado. As we all know, Malay Roychoudhury has declared th