Malay Roychoudhury : Hungryalist Legend & Pioneer Anti-Establishment in Bengal : Abhijit Pal

Prof Howard McCord Poetry of Chaos and Death Every attitude has its poetry, and a small, neat nation may, in one age, present a singularly unified attitude and its poetry to the world, as did England in the last sixteenth century. But such a tidy clarity is impossible for India. No country in the world offer greater extremes or variety in the total experiences which shape poets. Every social ordering from the most primitive to the most sophisticated, may be found; every major religion and most of the minor ones are practiced: the world views and value structures of India are nearly endless and expressed in 723 languages. The only area in the world that offers even remotely an equivalent complexity and confusion is the whole of Africa. Two things give the country what unity it has: the first is false generalization---that there is an Indian temperament, discernable both in the North and the South, composed of egoism, agility of mind, quickness to violence, a penchant for vapo

“No Hungry Generations Tread Thee Down”? — Exploring the Poetics of Alterity Sanchari Bhattacharya Jadavpur University Published in ‘Margins : A Journal of Literature and Culture’ Abstract act: This essay discusses the Hungryalist Movement of the 1960s which attempted to change the path of the early 20th century Bengali literature because it failed to represent the existential angst and pessimism of the youth of post-Partition Bengal. There is no doubt, of course, that the movement ushered in a violent surge of change that hit right at the outdated mode of conceiving literature and art according to a city-centric, western educated, bourgeois sense of taste. But despite their constant revolution for almost five years, the extent of success of the Hungryalist movement still remains questionable. It is argued here that although it set out to attack and disintegrate contemporary Bengali literature on the premise that it was unbearably imitative of the