Tridib Mitra Explained

Tridib Mitra
Birth Date:	31 December 1940
Birth Place:	India
Occupation:	Writer
Language:	English Bengali
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Movement:	Hungry Generation
Spouse:	Alo Mitra
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Tridib Mitra (born 31 December 1940) was an anti-establishment writer and part of the Hungry generation movement in Bengali literature of the 1960s.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Along with his wife, Alo Mitra, he edited Hungry generation magazines The Waste Paper (in English) and Unmarga (in Bengali). Mitra and his wife started poetry readings in burning ghats, graveyards, river banks, and country liquor joints of Kolkata.^[4] They also delivered Hungry generation masks of demons, jokers and gods to the offices and houses of ministers, administrators, newspaper editors and other bureaucrats of the West Bengali establishment.^[5]

Works

• Ghulghuli (Poetry) 1965
• Hatyakando (Poetry) 1967

See also

• Falguni Roy
• Samir Roychoudhury
• Subimal Basak
• Shakti Chattopadhyay
• Malay Roy Choudhury
• Basudeb Dasgupta
• Sandipan Chattopadhyay

References

• An assessment of Mitra's Firebrand Discourse
• Tridib Mitra the poet
• Van Tulsi Ka Gandh by Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi (1984)
• Intrepid Edited by Carl Weissner, Buffalo, NY, US (1968)
• Salted Feathers Edited by Dick Bakken. Portland, Oregon, US (1967)
• City Lights Journal No 1, Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Francisco, California, US (1963)
• El Corno Emplumado No 9, Edited by Margaret Randall, Argentina (1964)
• Kulchur No 15 Edited by Lita Hornick, New York, US (1964)
• Indian Poetry Edited by Prof Howard McCord, Bowling Green State University, US (1965)
• Hungry Kingbadanti Written by Malay Roy Choudhury, Dey Books, Kolkata (1996)
• Hungry Shruti O Shastrovirodhi Andolon by Dr Uttam Das, Mahadiganto Publishers, Kolkata 700 144 (1986)

External links

• Tridib Mitra's Poetry of Protest
• Tridib Mitra and other Hungry generation members: Photographs
• TIME magazine news about the movement
• Tridib Mitra's paper on Hungryalist Influence on Allen Ginsberg

Notes and References

1. Web site: HUNGRYALIST MOVEMENT - A Photo-Text Album . 2022-05-07 . www.kaurab.com.
2. Book: Chowdhury, Maitreyee B. . The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution . December 2018 . Penguin Books, Limited . 978-0-670-09085-3 . en.
3. Web site: 2008-03-08 . The Hungry Generation - TIME . https://web.archive.org/web/20080308010547/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830799,00.html . dead . 2008-03-08 . 2022-05-07 .
4. Web site: 2019-06-09 . The life and times of the Hungry Generation of modern Bengali poets, arguably the most dynamic and divisive literary movement of its generation . 2022-05-07 . The Indian Express . en.
5. Web site: Chowdhury . Maitreyee Bhattacharjee . A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s . 2022-05-07 . Scroll.in . 8 January 2019 . en-US.