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...

The Anti-Establishment Pioneers of Bengal Dr Indrajit Bhattacharjee The Hungry Generation Movement in Bangla literature and painting, also known as Hungryalism, Hungrealism, Hungry Andolon, Sarvagrasa, Khutkatar , Khsudharta, Bhukhi Peedhi , which shook post-colonial Bangla culture with an intensity comparable to the impact of pre-colonial Young Bengal social movement, was the brain-child of Malay Roychoudhury who, after his post-graduation, was working on an essay on ‘the philosophy of history’, when he came across the book The Decline of the West written by Oswald Spengler. Though Malay did not accept the Spenglerian philosophy, he was impressed with the argument that history should not be construed in a linear progression, but flowering of a number of cultural inclinations, each with a characteristic spiritual tone, or conception of the space within which they act. This was a decisive break with the Hegelian concept of history as a process governed by reason. For 22 year old...