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

Malay Roychoudhury's Poetry of Dissent Translated from Bengali to English. Protest in Poetry ( First stage translation by Mahashweta Bose, finalised by the author ) ) Malay Roychoudhury's Poetry of Dissent Translated from Bengali to English. Nay-Ballad From uncoiled wings of the burning swan after sea of blood was born out of green caterpillar that skin sheared moon from cloud’s underbelly ordered  waves to abolish horoscopes on crabs’ breasts . On the evergreen epiglotis of lotus full to the brim the pollen fiddling honey bee waved  her double scarf searched for drunk village of pride red beating crowd humming songs sleeping side by side of worried distance . ( Translation of ‘Na-Ballad’. Written on 15 August 1999 ) A Quasi Governmental Report Unarmed military  offered prayer...

Posted by Michael Limnios Blues Network on February 4, 2019 at 6:30pm "Throughout the world, poetry and music have been forerunners in challenging the mindsets of people. Irrespective of the genre and language both music and poetry have constantly motivated people into thinking differently, into rising in revolt against mediocre or oppressive thought processes." Maitreyee B Chowdhury: Bangalore Blues Maitreyee B Chowdhury is a Bangalore based poet and writer. She has three books to her credit- ‘Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema’s First Couple’ and ‘Where Even the Present is Ancient: Benaras’. In the year 2013, ‘Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen: Bengali Cinema’s First Couple’ was nominated for the Crossword Book Awards, 2013 (Non Fiction category). Maitreyee is organiser of Bengaluru Poetry Festival, and poetry and fiction editor of The Bangalore Review, a literary journal. Maitreyee’s writi...