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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]
Tridib Mitra | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 31, 1940 India |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English Bengali |
| Literary movement | Hungry Generation |
| Spouse | Alo Mitra |
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
edit- Ghulghuli (Poetry) 1965
- Hatyakando (Poetry) 1967
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "HUNGRYALIST MOVEMENT - A Photo-Text Album". www.kaurab.com. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ Chowdhury, Maitreyee B. (December 2018). The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution. Penguin Books, Limited. ISBN 978-0-670-09085-3.
- ^ "The Hungry Generation - TIME". 8 March 2008. Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ "The life and times of the Hungry Generation of modern Bengali poets, arguably the most dynamic and divisive literary movement of its generation". The Indian Express. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- ^ Chowdhury, Maitreyee Bhattacharjee (8 January 2019). "A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s". Scroll.in. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
- An assessment of Mitra's Firebrand Discourse[permanent dead link]
- 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)