Bengali poetry
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Bengali poetry is a form that originated in Pāli
and other Prakrit
socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic
rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic
traditions such as Buddhism
and Jainism
. However, modern Bengali owes much to Sanskrit
.
and the age of modern poetry
. Modernity
was introduced into Bengali poetry in the 1930s.
's Royal Library by Bengali scholar Mahamahopadhyay Haraprasad Shastri.
The Medieval period of Bengali poetry was between 1350 and 1800. It was known as the period of Jayadeva
, the renowned 12th century poet from neighboring Orissa
who was famous for his poem Gitagovinda.
Other noted poets from this period include 13th century Vidyapati
, known for his love lyrics and Baḍu, Chandidas
, writer of Sri Krishna Kirtan. Sri Krishna Kirtan is considered to be the most important philosophical and erotic work of the period.
The period from 1500 to 1800 is known as the Late Middle Bengali Period
. During this period, there was a marked influence of Chaitanya
, leading to the development of Vaishnava literature
. Vaishnava poets include Govinddas and Gyandas.
Beside Vaishnava poetry, the most significant work of the 16th century was Mukunda Chakravarti's Chandimangal. Other Mangal-Kāvyas or religious texts are Manasamangal
, Dharmamangal and Phullaketu.
Two of Bengal's most well known Muslim poets, Daulat Qazi and Alaol
, lived in the 15th century (1607–1680) in Myanmar.
Bharat Chandra
marks the transition between Precolonial
theocentric poetry and modern poetry. Iswar Gupta
, Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1834–1873), Biharilal Chakravarti (1834–94), Rabindranath Tagore
(1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam
(2011–2010), and Jatindramohan Bagchi
(1878–1948) are noteworthy poets of this period.
founding a firm basis for Bengali poetry, the new poets of the early 1920s consciously moved for transcending the frontiers of traditional verses to establishing a realm of truly modern poetry. It was a successful movement that brought permanent change to the structure and theme of poetry. One notable sect of modernists included pro-socialism
poets like Sukanta Bhattacharya
and Samar Sen
.
, a little magazine
founded in 1923. The most popular among this group were Kazi Nazrul Islam
(1899–1976) and Mohitolal Majumdar
(1888–1952), Achintyakumar Sengupta
(1903–1976), Satyendranath Dutta
(1882–1922), and Premendra Mitra
(1904–1988).
Bengali poetry strongly engaged modernism in the 1930s through a few other little magazines, such as Buddhadeb Bosu
's Kabita and Sudhindranath Dutta
's Parichay. The great poets of this movement were the main players in reshaping Bengali poetry. They included writers like Jibanananda Das
(1899–1954), Buddhadev Bose (1908–1974), Sudhindranath Dutta
(1901–1960), Bishnu Dey
(1909–1982), Amiya Chakravarty
(1901–1986) and Samar Sen
(1916–1987).
, Sunil Gangopadhyay
, Dinesh Das
(1913–1985), Sukanta Bhattacharya
(1926–1947), Arun Mitra
(1909–2000), Nirendranath Chakravarty
, Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), and Abul Kasem Rahimuddin are famous poets from the post-World War II era.
, the country was divided by religion. In response, some poets wrote poetry imbued with Islam
ic fervour. These poets include Syed Ismail Hossain Siraji, Mohammed Mozammel Haque (1860–1933) Golam Mostofa
(1897–1964), Talim Hossain, and Abdul Kadir
(1906–1984) and Farrukh Ahmed
(1918–1974), a modernist.
was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet, i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay
, Malay Roy Choudhury
, Samir Roychoudhury
and Debi Roy (Haradhon Dhara), during the 1960s in Kolkata
, India
. They took the word Hungry from Geoffrey Chaucer
's line "In Sowre Hungry Tyme" and they drew upon Oswald Spengler
's idea of Non-linear Time in a particular culture for philosophical inspiration. The movement was to last from 1961-1965. The movement is characterized by expression of closeness to nature
and sometimes tenets of Gandhianism. It had participants spread over North Bengal
, Tripura
and Benares. More than 100 manifestos were issued during 1961-1965. The group wrote poetry and prose in completely different forms and experimented with contents. The movement changed the literary atmosphere of West Bengal altogether. It had influences in Hindi
, Marathi
, Assamese
, Telugu
and Urdu
literatures. Besides the famous four mentioned above, Subimal Basak
Utpalkumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar
, Sandipan Chattopadhyay
, Subo Acharya, Pradip Choudhuri, Saileswar Ghose, Subhas Ghose, Tridib Mitra
Alo Mitra, Arunesh Ghose, Ramananda Chattopadhyay, Anil Karanjai
, Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay were among the leading writers and artists of the movement.
The movement has been subject of doctoral thesis of Swati Banerjee of Rabindrabharati University and Bishnu Chandra Dey of Assam University. Subimal Basak
and Malay Roy Choudhury
have been awarded the Sahitya Academy award for translation by Government of India.
In 2011 Srijit Mukherji
directed a film titled Baishe Srabon
in which famous director Gautam Ghose
portrayed the role of an anti-establishment Hungry generation
poet. This was for the first time that an avant garde literary movement was incorporated into mainstream cinema.
He started to publish a poetry magazine "Indrani" in the beloved memory of his daughter, who died at the age of 7 days. This magazine is a great venture in Bengali poetry movement. No person will be called as a poet if his poem is not printed in the pages of Indrani.
The great poets of those movements— Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Buddhadev Bose (1908–1974), Sudhindranath Dutta(1901–1960), Bishnu Dey (1909–1982), Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986) and Samar Sen(1916–1987) were the main characters who made a significant effort to reshape Bengali Poetry.
Pijush Raut, Bijit Kumar Bhattacharya, Birendranath Rakshit, Shaktipada Brahmmachari,Udayan Ghosh,Bimal Choudhury,Ruchira Shyam,Shantanu Ghosh,Ranajit Dash, Monotosh Chakravarty, Urdhendu Das,Debashis Tarafdar,Sanjoy Chakravarty,Amitabha Dev Choudhury, Pallab Bhattacharjya, Bikash Sarkar, Kunal Bhattacharjee, Prabuddhasundar Kar, Ashok Deb,Swarnali Biswas Bhattacharjee, Saptarshi Biswas,Abhijit Chakravarty, Mihir Majumder, Dipika Biswas, Sukumar bagchi, Ramanath Bhattacharya, Jagannath Lala, Arun Banik.
He wrote many books of poems which are still not known to us. All the historians of Bengal are requested to discover his books so that he can get the honour for his eternal poems.
Jiban was an employee of Cossipore Gun and Shell factory. But his room in Entally was a place of meeting of all writers and poets. Every Sunday, promising writers as well as renowned writers and poets used to take an "adda" in his house. He is so favourite and popular that he has no enemy in the world of literature.
He has written a dozen of books of poems, short stories and novels. He has edited 'tinjan', 'anyadin' and various little magazines. His nephew Chitrabhanu Sarkar is also a famous poet of Kolkata.
'Anyadin' was edited by Sisir Bhattacharya. These two little magazines gathered a group of poets who are too much creative and full of vigour.
The poets of this period are Shantanu , Rudrendu, sisir along with Manindra Roy, Amitava Dasgupta, Alokranjan Dasgupta, Shankha Ghosh, Gouranga Bhoumik, Pratima Roy, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Alokranjan Dasgupta, Shantikumar Ghosh, Subhas Sarkar, Samarendra Sengupta, Goutam Guha, Jiban Sarkar, Haripada Dey, Syed Kawsar Jamal, Samaredra Das, Ananya Roy, Mrinal Basu Choudhury, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Mridul Dasgupta, Pranab Basu Ray,Dhurjati Chandra, Parameswari Roy Choudhury and many others.
Santanu and Rudrendu edited a collection of poems ; Swanirbachito. This is the first in the history of Bengali poetry to publish photos of each poet.
Rudrendu Sarkar, Pratyush Prasun Ghosh, Pranab Basu Ray,Pranabkumar Chattopadyay, Satyen Bandyopadhyay, Ram Basu, Siddheswar Sen, Golam Kuddus, Swapan Bandyopadhyay, Aloknath Mukhopadhyay, Biswadeb Mukhopadhyay,Ekram Ali, Wajed Ali, Samarendra Das, Bapi Samaddar,Samar Bandyopadhyay, Sayed Hasmat Jalal,Gour Sankar Bandopadhyay, Subrata Sarkar, Amitava Kanjilal, Anjali Das, Somak Das, Shankar Chakraborty, Jamil Sayed, Shyamal Kanti Das, Promod Basu, Sudhir Bera, Joydev Basu, Chtrabhanu Sarkar,Mridul Dasgupta, Jaharlal Bera, Sukamal Basu, Asok Mohanti, Phalguni Bhattacharyya,Kach Sanyal, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Subrata Chakraborty, Biswanath Ghosh.
Apart from these poets two significant young poets with suburban voices are Sadiq Hussain and Atanu Chatterjee.
The Bangla poet Rabindranath Tagore
was the first person (excepting Roosevelt
) outside Europe
to get the Nobel Prize
. He is considered as the pioneer of Bangla literature and culture. The year 1893 AD, was the turn of the century in the Bangla calendar. It was the Bangla year 1300. Tagore wrote a poem then. Its name was ‘The year 1400’. In that poem, Tagore was appealing to a new future poet, yet to be born. He urged in that poem to remember Tagore while he was reading it. He addressed it to that unknown poet who was reading it a century later.
A century later, in 1993 (the Bangla year 1400) in Bangladesh a Modern Poet Mahmud Nurul Momen wrote another excellent poem in reply to the poem written hundred years earlier. It was in the same verse as the earlier one, answering and responding to the appeal of Tagore as if Tagore addressed it to him. In it he assured Tagore that contrary to his fear this modern poet has not forgotten him. He said in it: - I am profoundly remembering you while reading this poem. Don t worry! I assure you, you are successful in communicating me a century apart. Another exiting fact is that Momen wrote his poem in the same room where Tagore wrote his one, 100 years earlier.
This idea of Mahmud Nurul Momen was very highly acclaimed and created a sensation. The poem by Momen began thus:- Toma hote shotoborsho porey Later it was included in one of his books which was named 1400 shal .
In fact Mahmud Nurul Momen has a trilogy of poetry books on this theme. They are 1300 shal, 1400 shal and 1500 shal in which Mahmud Nurul Momen carries the baton (like a relay race) given by Rabindranath Tagore and passes it to the future poets, appealing in the same but futuristic way to them.
2011 AD is the 150th birth anniversary year of Rabindranath Tagore. He was born in 1861. Bangladesh s modern and publicity-shy poet Mahmud Nurul Momen was born exactly a century later in 1961. He was the only poet to successfully respond to Tagore s call.That s why literature buffs of Bangla poetry consider him as the true and sole successor to Tagore in Bangla Poetry. Bangla is now the 5th largest language in the world. Its high time Bangladesh, which has been turned into the abode of modern Bangla literature by Mahmud Nurul Momen, once again gets the world's attention in literature again through Mahmud Nurul Momen.
18 years ago Bangladesh s poet Mahmud Nurul Momen was acclaimed as a responder to Tagore s call made a century earlier. This Year, in 2011, he paid his respect again to Tagore by writing another poem welcoming and addressing Tagore at the time of his birth 150 years ago. He wrote it sitting in the same room where Tagore used to sit and write. The poem goes like this:- Aji hote shardho-shotoborsho agey . The name of the book is 1268 shal .
This book is much acclaimed also. But Bangladesh's dear poet Mahmud Nurul Momen is not at all publicity crazy. In fact he wishes to serve poetry silently and without any pomp. That s why he is not that much known, as much as his genius demands.
Apart from being a great poet, Dr. Mahmud Nurul Momen is a great scholar and researcher also. He holds a PhD in literature.
Besides being a futuristic, exceptional and good poet, Mahmud Nurul Momen is also a film-maker and playwright.
Like Alexander Dumas (pere & fils) , Mahmud Nurul Momen is the son of Natyaguru Nurul Momen. The father was the pioneer in Bangladesh s theatre, satire & personal essays. The son is carrying the legend in the field of poetry, translations, journalism, film & media.
Mr. Mahmud Nurul Momen is an accomplished great poet. But he is an accomplished essayist also. He holds a unique record in Bangladesh. From 1984 onwards every year, he wrote different essays on each of the Nobel literature laureates of every year till now. He also translated their works into Bangla. They include poems and short stories by the Nobel Laureates.
Mahmud Nurul Momen is a Poet and a translator. He has translated into Bangla, works of Homer, Horace, Ovid, Sophocles, Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Moliere, Shelly, Byron, Tolstoy, Twain and others.
He is an art-critic also. Besides discussing about contemporary arts, Mahmud Nurul Momen wrote about Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali and other Masters.
Mahmud Nurul Momen's motherland, Bangladesh, became independent through a bloody war in 1971. He was only nine then. The genocide of three million people during the nine months of liberation war created a grave impact on Mahmud Nurul Momen's mind.
On 1st August, 1971, world famous musicians like George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shanker and others performed in the 'Concert for Bangladesh' at the Madison Square Garden in New York. This made the cause of Bangladesh globally popular. This event created a sense of great respect for those singers in the psyche of Mahmud Nurul Momen at his tender age. As a result he wrote a long poem named 'Concert for Bangladesh' on 1st August, 2001. Now, on 1st August,2011, he has written another long poem on that event, named 'Harrison, Shanker, Dylan, Clapton : Ami tomader valobashee' (I love you).
In 1988, the birth-centennary year of T.S. Eliot, Mahmud Nurul Momen wrote elaborate essays on his life and works. A couple of years later he wrote the poetry book 'Datta.Dayadhvam.Damyata' in Bangla. It's sequel by Momen was 'Shantih Shantih Shantih'. In these poems Mahmud Nurul Momen explores 'The Waste Land' of the present (particularly Bengal, Asia, the 3rd world & 21st century scenario) in the late 20th century. Here Momen engages in dialogues with Eliot about interactions between Eliot's philosophy and Bangla, Pali/Sankskrit philosophy. He appreciates and delves into Eliot's knowledge of Sankskrit & Bangla mythology.
Two other famous Bangla poems written in the 90's by Mahmud Nurul Momen are 'Avatar' and 'Nirvana'(both Bangla words).
is a prominent poet emerged with her "Challis Chander Ayu".
( Not a poet of 90s but a poet of 80s ).But especially Joy Goswami,Subodh Sarkar and Kabir Suman (with his exceptional modern bengali songs—its lyrics and compositions) influenced the new generation poets in 90s.From Presidency College,College street coffee house,Jadavpur University,Jadavpur coffee house many new faces took a important part to create a new genre in Modern Bengali Poetry.Bijalpa,Anyamone,Dharapat,Sahitya Trisha, Shabdajapan,Kabikatha,Kabita Pakshik,Kabita Campus,Gandhar,Anway,Arani and many little magazines and Desh magazine were also publishing simultaneously poetry of young poets regularly.In Presidency and Jadavpur University campus there were a regular practice of Bengali poetry and Bengali Band music,every week.Renowned poet and popular teacher Pranabendu Dasgupta,Nabanita Debsen,Manabendra Bandyopadhyay,Pabitra Sarkar,Amiya Deb,Shibaji Bandyopadhyay encouraged the youngsters.Now many of them are not in practice.Biswajit Chatterjee, Samyarata Joardar,Anindya Sinha,Suman Roy,Bubun Chattopadhyay,Sandip Chattopadhyay,Prasun Bhowmick, BIPLAB CHOWDHURY, Anindya Bose,Dipankar Bagchi,Rajib Bishwas,Sukanta Chakraborty,Mitul Dutta,Ipsita Haldar,Sarthak Roychoudhury,Rajib Sinha,Chiranjib Basu,Shantanu Sarkar,Debatosh Das,Sanjay Moulik,Tapas Dutta,Ayan Goswami,Mouli Misra,Roshnara Misra,Barnali Bandyopadhyay,Sarthak Singharoy,Pratyat Chakraborty,Rupak Chakraborty,Somnath Roy,Souvik Chakraborty,Bappaditya Bandyopadhyay,Avik Bhattacharya,Avik Majumder,Koushik Bhattarcharya,Sudip Basu,Ayan Banerjee,Ranajit Dasgupta and many mores enriched 90s poetry.
The modernist movement of modernizing Bengali literature was brought one step further during the 50s, especially with the emergence of the Krittivas magazine. Major poets of this period are Dinesh Das Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Sunil Chandra Sarkar, Rajlakshmi Devi, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Pranab Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Jasimuddin, Bimal Chandra Ghosh, Manindra Roy, Manindra Gupta, Mangala Charan Chattopadhyay, Kamakshiprasad Chattopadhyay, Kiran Sankar Sengupta, Ram Basu, Biswa Bandyopadhyay, Ramendrakumar Acharya Choudhury, Sunil Basu, Nishikanta, Ranjit Singha, Sadhana Mukhopadhyay, Abul Kashem Rahimuddin, Achintya Kumar Sengupta, Chanchal Chattopadhyay, Ashok Bijoy Raha, Krishnadhan Dey, Batakrishna Dey.
The first issue of Kabipatra was edited by Pabitra Mukhopadhyay, the 2nd by Amar Mitra, 3rd by Subimal Mishra, 4th to 7th by Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay and Sachin Das jointly. Pabitra also used to publish other magazines. many more like Arani Basu, Uday Bhadury, Somak Das,Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Dipak Lahiri, Parombrato Chattopadhyay, Kanailal Jana,Samaresh Mondal, Gour Khanra, Nasim-e-Alam, Tapan Maity, Subhas Gangopadhaya, Giridhari Kundu, Dipak Roy, Chitrita Devi, Kanak Mukhopadhyay, Jugantar Chakraborty, Mohini Mohan Gangopadhyay, Dipankar Roy, Shankho Ghosh were also linked with that movement and contributed writings.
Tanvir Ratul, Muiz Mahfuz, Ovijit Das, Sadi Taif, Saif Ibne Rafiq, Probor Ripon, Mukte Mandal, Nirlipto Noyon, Anonto Uzzol, Said R'man...
Shabana Khatun
Pali language
Pāli is a Middle Indo-Aryan language of the Indian subcontinent. It is best known as the language of many of the earliest extant Buddhist scriptures, as collected in the Pāi Canon or Tipitaka, and as the liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism.-Etymology of the name:The word Pali itself...
and other Prakrit
Prakrit
Prakrit is the name for a group of Middle Indic, Indo-Aryan languages, derived from Old Indic dialects. The word itself has a flexible definition, being defined sometimes as, "original, natural, artless, normal, ordinary, usual", or "vernacular", in contrast to the literary and religious...
socio-cultural traditions. It is antagonistic towards Vedic
Historical Vedic religion
The religion of the Vedic period is a historical predecessor of Hinduism. Its liturgy is reflected in the mantra portion of the four Vedas, which are compiled in Sanskrit. The religious practices centered on a clergy administering rites...
rituals and laws as opposed to the shramanic
Shramana
A shramana is a wandering monk in certain ascetic traditions of ancient India including Jainism, Buddhism, and Ājīvikism. Famous śramaṇas include Mahavira and Gautama Buddha....
traditions such as Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
and Jainism
Jainism
Jainism is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings. Its philosophy and practice emphasize the necessity of self-effort to move the soul towards divine consciousness and liberation. Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state...
. However, modern Bengali owes much to Sanskrit
Sanskrit
Sanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
.
Early history
The history of Bengali poetry underwent three successive stages of development: poetry of the early age (like Charyapad), the Medieval periodMiddle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
and the age of modern poetry
History of poetry
Poetry as an art form predates literacy. Some of the earliest poetry is believed to have been orally recited or sung. Following the development of writing, poetry has since developed into increasingly structured forms, though much poetry since the late 20th century has moved away from traditional...
. Modernity
Modernity
Modernity typically refers to a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the move from feudalism toward capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its constituent institutions and forms of surveillance...
was introduced into Bengali poetry in the 1930s.
Origins
Bengali poetry probably began during the 10th century. It is known for the mystic poems called Charyacharyavinishchaya, and sometimes called Charyapad or Charyagiti. These poems were discovered in NepalNepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
's Royal Library by Bengali scholar Mahamahopadhyay Haraprasad Shastri.
Translation of Epics into Vernacular
- Krittibas OjhaKrittibas OjhaKrittibas Ojha or Kirttibas Ojha was a medieval Bengali poet. His major contribution to Bangla literature and culture was the translation of the great Indian epic Ramayana to Bangla. His work, the Sri Ram Panchali, is popularly known as the Krittivasi Ramayan...
- Kashiram Das
The Medieval period of Bengali poetry was between 1350 and 1800. It was known as the period of Jayadeva
Jayadeva
Jayadeva was a Sanskrit poet circa 1200 AD. He is most known for his composition, the epic poem Gita Govinda, which depicts the divine love of Krishna-an avatar of Vishnu and his consort, Radha, and it is mentioned that Radha is greater than Hari, and is considered an important text in the...
, the renowned 12th century poet from neighboring Orissa
Orissa
Orissa , officially Odisha since Nov 2011, is a state of India, located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It is the modern name of the ancient nation of Kalinga, which was invaded by the Maurya Emperor Ashoka in 261 BC. The modern state of Orissa was established on 1 April...
who was famous for his poem Gitagovinda.
Other noted poets from this period include 13th century Vidyapati
Vidyapati
Vidyapati Thakur , also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer. He was born in the village of Bishphi in Madhubani district of Bihar state, India. He was son of Ganapati...
, known for his love lyrics and Baḍu, Chandidas
Chandidas
Chandidas refers to medieval poet of Bengal. Over 1250 poems related to the love of Radha and Krishna in Bengali with the bhanita of Chandidas are found with three different sobriquets along with his name, , Dvija and Dina as well as without any sobriquet also...
, writer of Sri Krishna Kirtan. Sri Krishna Kirtan is considered to be the most important philosophical and erotic work of the period.
The period from 1500 to 1800 is known as the Late Middle Bengali Period
Middle Bengali Literature
The Middle Bengali Literature is a period in the History of Bengali literature dated from 15th to 18th centuries. Followed by the Turkish Invasion in Bengal in the 13th century, literature in vernacular Bengali took its first shape in this time...
. During this period, there was a marked influence of Chaitanya
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India in the 16th century, believed by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism to be the full incarnation of Lord Krishna...
, leading to the development of Vaishnava literature
Kannada literature
Kannada literature is the corpus of written forms of the Kannada language, a member of the Dravidian family spoken mainly in the Indian state of Karnataka and written in the Kannada script....
. Vaishnava poets include Govinddas and Gyandas.
Beside Vaishnava poetry, the most significant work of the 16th century was Mukunda Chakravarti's Chandimangal. Other Mangal-Kāvyas or religious texts are Manasamangal
Manasamangal Kavya
Manasamangal Kāvya is the oldest of the Mangal-Kāvya and narrates how the snake-goddess Manasa established her worship in Bengal by converting a worshipper of Shiva to her own worship. Manasa was a non-Aryan deity and her worship was an ancient one in Bengal...
, Dharmamangal and Phullaketu.
Two of Bengal's most well known Muslim poets, Daulat Qazi and Alaol
Alaol
Alaol was a medieval poet in Bengal. He is thought to be born around 1607 in Faridpur in the present-day Bangladesh. His most well known work is Padmavati, which depicts the story of Padmavati, the Sinhala princess and the queen of Chittor. There is an important literary prize named after him in...
, lived in the 15th century (1607–1680) in Myanmar.
Birth of modern poetry
Bharatchandra Ray
Bharatchandra Ray was an 18th century Bengali and Sanskrit poet and song composer. He is mostly known for his poetic work, Annadamangal or Annapurnamangal. He is often referred to simply as Bharatchandra.-Early years:...
marks the transition between Precolonial
Precolonialism
Precolonialism is a subdiscourse of colonialism explored by postcolonial theorists. Helena Norberg-Hodge has stated that, in order to do development studies, one has to first understand precolonialism. The concept of precolonialism has also been applied to literary studies with respect to such...
theocentric poetry and modern poetry. Iswar Gupta
Ishwar Chandra Gupta
Ishwar Chandra Gupta was an Indian Bengali poet and writer. Gupta was born in the village Kanchanpalli or Kanchrapara, 24 Parganas district .- Early life :...
, Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1834–1873), Biharilal Chakravarti (1834–94), Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
(1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam , sobriquet Bidrohi Kobi, was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi...
(2011–2010), and Jatindramohan Bagchi
Jatindramohan Bagchi
Jatindramohan Bagchi was a Bengali poet and editor.-Early life:He was born in Jamsherpur, in Nadia, in rural Bengal...
(1878–1948) are noteworthy poets of this period.
Modern Bengali poetry
With Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
founding a firm basis for Bengali poetry, the new poets of the early 1920s consciously moved for transcending the frontiers of traditional verses to establishing a realm of truly modern poetry. It was a successful movement that brought permanent change to the structure and theme of poetry. One notable sect of modernists included pro-socialism
Socialism
Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...
poets like Sukanta Bhattacharya
Sukanta Bhattacharya
Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and playwright. Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, he was one of the key figures of modern Bengali poetry, despite the fact that most of his works had been in publication posthumously...
and Samar Sen
Samar Sen
Samar Sen was a Bengali poet and journalist. He hailed from an illustrious family, many of whose scions have enriched the intellectual world of Bengal. His grandfather, Dinesh Chandra Sen, was a well-known writer and a doyen of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad...
.
Pragati-Kallol-Kavita-Parichay
The modern age was ushered in by a group of writers who wrote for KalloKallol
Kallol refers to one of the most influential literary movements in Bangla literature, which can be placed approximately between 1923 and 1935. The name Kallol of the Kallol group derives from a magazine of the same name...
, a little magazine
Little magazine movement
Little magazines, often called "small magazines" are literary magazines which publish experimental and non-conformist writings of relatively unknown writers. They are usually noncommercial in their outlook. They are often very irregular in their publication...
founded in 1923. The most popular among this group were Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam , sobriquet Bidrohi Kobi, was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi...
(1899–1976) and Mohitolal Majumdar
Mohitolal Majumdar
Mohitlal Majumdar , a renowned Bengali author, was born at Balagarh village in Hoogly district, India.-Life:He was a professor of the University of Dhaka of Bengal, now in Bangladesh....
(1888–1952), Achintyakumar Sengupta
Achintyakumar Sengupta
Achintya Kumar Sengupta ), was a renowned Bengali author. He was born in Noakhali, now in Bangladesh.-Life:At the age of 13, after his father's death, Sengupta moved to Calcutta, where he completed his schooling....
(1903–1976), Satyendranath Dutta
Satyendranath Dutta
Satyendranath Dutta , a Bengali poet, is considered the wizard of rhymes...
(1882–1922), and Premendra Mitra
Premendra Mitra
Premendra Mitra was a renowned Bengali poet, novelist, short story writer and film director. He was also an author of Bangla science fiction and thrillers.-Life:...
(1904–1988).
Bengali poetry strongly engaged modernism in the 1930s through a few other little magazines, such as Buddhadeb Bosu
Buddhadeb Bosu
Buddhadeva Bose was a major Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. He was an influential critic and editor of his time...
's Kabita and Sudhindranath Dutta
Sudhindranath Dutta
Sudhindranath Dutta was a Bengali Indian post-modern poet, essayist, journalist and critic. Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bangla literature.-Education:...
's Parichay. The great poets of this movement were the main players in reshaping Bengali poetry. They included writers like Jibanananda Das
Jibanananda Das
Jibanananda Das was a noted Bengali poet. He is considered one of the precursors who introduced modernist poetry to Bengali Literature, at a period when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore's Romantic poetry....
(1899–1954), Buddhadev Bose (1908–1974), Sudhindranath Dutta
Sudhindranath Dutta
Sudhindranath Dutta was a Bengali Indian post-modern poet, essayist, journalist and critic. Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bangla literature.-Education:...
(1901–1960), Bishnu Dey
Bishnu Dey
Bishnu Dey was a prominent Bengali poet, prose writer, translator, academic and art critique in the era of modernism, post-modernism...
(1909–1982), Amiya Chakravarty
Amiya Chakravarty
Amiya Chandra Chakravarty was a literary critic, academic, and Bengali Poet. He was a close associate of Rabindrath Tagore, and edited several books of his poetry. He was also an associate of Gandhi, and an expert on the American catholic writer and monk, Thomas Merton. Dr. Chakravarty was...
(1901–1986) and Samar Sen
Samar Sen
Samar Sen was a Bengali poet and journalist. He hailed from an illustrious family, many of whose scions have enriched the intellectual world of Bengal. His grandfather, Dinesh Chandra Sen, was a well-known writer and a doyen of the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad...
(1916–1987).
Post-World War II poets
Shakti ChattopadhyayShakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhay was a Bengali poet and writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest poet of 20th century Bengali literature. -External links:...
, Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay , is a celebrated Indian poet and novelist.-Early life:...
, Dinesh Das
Dinesh Das
Dinesh Das was a Bengali poet. He created a stir with his poem Kaste . He immortalized Kolkata's Clive Street in one of his poems :Here, in a hundred snake-like veins,Streams of people come and go....
(1913–1985), Sukanta Bhattacharya
Sukanta Bhattacharya
Sukanta Bhattacharya was a Bengali poet and playwright. Along with Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam, he was one of the key figures of modern Bengali poetry, despite the fact that most of his works had been in publication posthumously...
(1926–1947), Arun Mitra
Arun Mitra
Arun Mitra was a Bengali poet.He was born in Jessore, now in Bangladesh, Arun moved to Kolkata when he was a young boy and did most of his schooling there. In college he was very fascinated by the life sciences, although he was officially a student of English...
(1909–2000), Nirendranath Chakravarty
Nirendranath Chakravarty
Nirendranath Chakraborty is a popular contemporary Bengali poet.-Poetry Anthology:Some of his poetry anthologies are:*Nil Nirjan*Andhokar Baranda*Prothom Nayok*Nirakto Karobi*Nakkhotro Joyer Jonno*Kolkatar Jishu*Ulongo Raja...
, Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), and Abul Kasem Rahimuddin are famous poets from the post-World War II era.
Poets of Islamic ideals
In British IndiaBritish Raj
British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...
, the country was divided by religion. In response, some poets wrote poetry imbued with Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
ic fervour. These poets include Syed Ismail Hossain Siraji, Mohammed Mozammel Haque (1860–1933) Golam Mostofa
Golam Mostofa
Golam Mostofa was a Bangladeshi writer and poet.-Life:Golam Mostofa graduated from Kolkata's Ripon College in 1918. He was a teacher of highschool. He worked in all sections of literature. Islamic heritage was one of his inspirations.-Works:He wrote his first poem, Adrianopol Uddhar, in tenth grade...
(1897–1964), Talim Hossain, and Abdul Kadir
Abdul Kadir (Poet)
-Life:He graduated from the University of Dhaka. Was a teacher, officer of media department, editor of `Mahenou'.-Editing:*Nazrul Rachanaboli*Rokeya Rachanaboli*Siraji Rachonaboli*Quazi Imdadul Haq Rachonaboli-Source:* Dakhil Bangla Sahitya...
(1906–1984) and Farrukh Ahmed
Farrukh Ahmed
Farrukh Ahmad was a poet and writer of Bangladesh. He was born in the village of Sreepur Upazilla of Magura District.He was the second son of Syed Hatem Ali and Begum Rawshan. He graduated from Khulna Zila School in 1937 and did his IA from Ripon College, Kolkata in 1939...
(1918–1974), a modernist.
Hungry Generation
The Hungry GenerationHungry generation
The Hungry Generation was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy alias Haradhon Dhara, during the 1960s in Kolkata, India...
was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet, i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhay was a Bengali poet and writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest poet of 20th century Bengali literature. -External links:...
, Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury is a Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. His literary works have been reviewed by sixty critics in HAOWA 49, a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works...
, Samir Roychoudhury
Samir Roychoudhury
Samir Roychowdhury , one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation 1961-1965 ,was born at Panihati, West Bengal, India in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers and musicians...
and Debi Roy (Haradhon Dhara), during the 1960s in Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. They took the word Hungry from Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
's line "In Sowre Hungry Tyme" and they drew upon Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Manuel Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West , published in 1918, which puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations...
's idea of Non-linear Time in a particular culture for philosophical inspiration. The movement was to last from 1961-1965. The movement is characterized by expression of closeness to nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
and sometimes tenets of Gandhianism. It had participants spread over North Bengal
North Bengal
North Bengal is a term used for the northern parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal. The Bangladesh part denotes the Rajshahi Division. Generally it is the area lying west of Jamuna River and north of Padma River, and includes the Barind Tract. The West Bengal part denotes Cooch Behar, Darjeeling,...
, Tripura
Tripura
Tripura is a state in North-East India, with an area of . It is the third smallest state of India, according to area. Tripura is surrounded by Bangladesh on the north, south, and west. The Indian states of Assam and Mizoram lie to the east. The capital is Agartala and the main languages spoken are...
and Benares. More than 100 manifestos were issued during 1961-1965. The group wrote poetry and prose in completely different forms and experimented with contents. The movement changed the literary atmosphere of West Bengal altogether. It had influences in Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
, Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
, Assamese
Assamese language
Assamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language is widely used in...
, Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...
and Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
literatures. Besides the famous four mentioned above, Subimal Basak
Subimal Basak
Subimal Basak, is an Indian fiction writer. He is a member of the Hungry generation, with Samir Roychoudhury, Falguni Roy, Shakti Chattopadhyay and the movement's creator Malay Roy Choudhury....
Utpalkumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar
Binoy Majumdar
Binoy Majumdar was a Bengali poet. Binoy received the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.-Biography:Late Binoy Majumdar was born in Myanmar on the 17th of September 1934. His family later moved to what is now West Bengal in India. Binoy loved mathematics from his early youth...
, Sandipan Chattopadhyay
Sandipan Chattopadhyay
Sandipan Chattopadhyay was a Bengali writer. In 1961 he wrote the book "Kritadas Kritadasi" it changed the landscape of Bengali fiction and created a niche for himself...
, Subo Acharya, Pradip Choudhuri, Saileswar Ghose, Subhas Ghose, Tridib Mitra
Tridib Mitra
Tridib Mitra was one of the pioneers of the Hungry generation movement in Bengali literature which changed the literary landscape of West Bengal once for all. With his wife Alo Mitra he edited Hungry generation magazines The Waste Paper in English and Unmarga in Bengali...
Alo Mitra, Arunesh Ghose, Ramananda Chattopadhyay, Anil Karanjai
Anil Karanjai
Anil Karanjai was an accomplished Indian artist. Born in East Bengal, he was educated in Benaras, where his family settled subsequent to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. As a small child he had spent long hours playing with clay to make toys and arrows. He also began very early...
, Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay were among the leading writers and artists of the movement.
The movement has been subject of doctoral thesis of Swati Banerjee of Rabindrabharati University and Bishnu Chandra Dey of Assam University. Subimal Basak
Subimal Basak
Subimal Basak, is an Indian fiction writer. He is a member of the Hungry generation, with Samir Roychoudhury, Falguni Roy, Shakti Chattopadhyay and the movement's creator Malay Roy Choudhury....
and Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury is a Bengali poet and novelist who founded the "Hungryalist Movement" in the 1960s. His literary works have been reviewed by sixty critics in HAOWA 49, a quarterly magazine which devoted its January 2001 special issue to Roy Choudhury's life and works...
have been awarded the Sahitya Academy award for translation by Government of India.
In 2011 Srijit Mukherji
Srijit Mukherji
Srijit Mukherji is an erstwhile economist, actor, director, lyricist, and theatrician from the Indian movie industry of West Bengal, Kolkata.-Early life:...
directed a film titled Baishe Srabon
Baishe Srabon
Baishe Srabon is a 2011 Bengali musical thriller directed by director Srijit Mukherji. The cast of the movie consists of Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Raima Sen, Abir Chatterjee and reputed actor Gautam Ghosh who made a come back after 29 years...
in which famous director Gautam Ghose
Gautam Ghose
Goutam Ghose is one of the most acclaimed film directors of modern India. Born in Calcutta. Graduated from Calcutta University....
portrayed the role of an anti-establishment Hungry generation
Hungry generation
The Hungry Generation was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy alias Haradhon Dhara, during the 1960s in Kolkata, India...
poet. This was for the first time that an avant garde literary movement was incorporated into mainstream cinema.
Indrani Cult
Nirmal Basak was born in a Weaver family, but became an engineer.He started to publish a poetry magazine "Indrani" in the beloved memory of his daughter, who died at the age of 7 days. This magazine is a great venture in Bengali poetry movement. No person will be called as a poet if his poem is not printed in the pages of Indrani.
Birth of Modern Poetry
Nobel Laurate Rabindranath Tagore is the most famous Bengali poet of modern eraBharat Chandra probably marks the transition period of pre-colonial theocentric poetry and modern poetry. After Bharat Chandra there is a long list of poets notable Iswar Gupta before Michael Madhusudan Dutta (1834–1873) who is the founder of modern age of Bengali literature. Another great poet of this period is Biharilal Chakravarti’s (1834–94). Then Rabindranath Tagore(1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), Jatindramohan Bagchi (1878–1948) and many others begin the age of modern bengali poetry. as a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Modern Bengali poetry a la Western school
With Rabindranath founding a firm basis for Bengali poetry, the new poets of early 1920s started a conscious movement for transcending the frontiers of traditional verses and establishing a realm of truly 'modern' poetry in Bengali. It was a successful movement that brought permanent change about the concept of structure of poetry, in addition to theme, Notably one sect of the modernists were pro-socialism poets like Sukanta Bhattacharya and Samar Sen. Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926) was one of the most honored poets of Bangla literature. ... Samar Sen was a Bengali poet and journalist. ...Pragati-Kallol-Kavita-Parichay : Age of Modern Poetry
This is the most widely known portrait of Jibanananda Das. The date is unknown.The modern age begins with a group of writers who wrote for Kallol, a modernist movement magazine founded in 1923. The most popular among the group were Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976) and Mohitlal Majumder (1888–1952), Achintyakumar Sengupta (1903–1976), Satyendranath Dutta (1882–1922), Premendra Mitra (1904–1988) and others. Then Bengali poetry got into the brightest light of modernism in 1930s through the movement of few other little magazines such as Buddhadeb Bosu's Kabita and Sudhindranath Datta's Parichay.The great poets of those movements— Jibanananda Das (1899–1954), Buddhadev Bose (1908–1974), Sudhindranath Dutta(1901–1960), Bishnu Dey (1909–1982), Amiya Chakravarty (1901–1986) and Samar Sen(1916–1987) were the main characters who made a significant effort to reshape Bengali Poetry.
Post World War II Poets
Dinesh Das (1913–1985), Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926–1947), Arun Mitra (1909–2000), Nirendranath Chakravarty, Subhas Mukhopadhyay (1919–2003), Abul Kasem Rahimuddin. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Dinesh Das Bengali poet b. ... Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926) was one of the most honored poets of Bangla literature. ... Arun Mitra was born in November 1909 in Jashore, now in Bangladesh. ... Nirendranath Chakravarty(1924) is a popular contemporary Bengali Poet. ... Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Bangla: সà§à¦à¦¾à¦· মà§à¦–োপাধà§à¦¯à¦¾à¦¯à¦¼) (February 12, 1919 - July 8, 2003) was one of the foremost Bengali poets of the 20th century. ...Poets of Islamic Ideals
Given the religion based politics of British India that saw partition of India on the basis of religion, soe poemts wrote poetry imbued with Islamic fervour. Some of them are Kaikobad, Sayid Ismail Hossain Shiraji, Golam Mostofa (1897–1964), Farrukh Ahmed (1918–1974), Talim Hossain, Abdul Kadir (1906–1984). Of them Farrukh Ahmed is most accomplished and in essence, he is a modernist. Golam Mostofa (Bengali: ) 1897-1964) was a Bangladeshi writer and poet. ... Farrukh Ahmed (Bengali: ) (1918–1974) was a poet and writer of Bangladesh. ... Abdul Kadir (1906–1984) was a Bangladeshi poet. ...Age of Confusion
Arunkumar Sadhukhan, Sushil Singha, Chinmoy Guha Thakurta, Niva Dey, Sukomal Roy Choudhury, Manas Roy Choudhury, Karuna Sindhu Dey, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Manjulika Das, Nishikanta.Transparent eyeball,all seeing but nowhere present
This is a big event in Bangla Kabita. A few poets came to note down the inner life of human being. In this age we find : Debiprasad Bandyopadhyay, Birendranath Rakshit, Bhaskar Mitra, Hirak Bhattacharya, Subrata Sarkar, Jamil Sayed, Tanmay Moitra, Subrata Paul, Utpal Dey, Ranajoy Chattopadhyay, Dilip Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan Sarkar, Prabuddha Sundar Kar, Rama Ghosh, Anjali Das, Sanjukta Bandyopadhyay, Chaitali Chattopadhyay, Chitrabhanu Sarkar, Abhik Bhattacharya, Rijurekho Chakraborty, Abhik Mazumdar.New Horizon in Bengali Poetry
Can anyone forget these ultimate poets ?Pijush Raut, Bijit Kumar Bhattacharya, Birendranath Rakshit, Shaktipada Brahmmachari,Udayan Ghosh,Bimal Choudhury,Ruchira Shyam,Shantanu Ghosh,Ranajit Dash, Monotosh Chakravarty, Urdhendu Das,Debashis Tarafdar,Sanjoy Chakravarty,Amitabha Dev Choudhury, Pallab Bhattacharjya, Bikash Sarkar, Kunal Bhattacharjee, Prabuddhasundar Kar, Ashok Deb,Swarnali Biswas Bhattacharjee, Saptarshi Biswas,Abhijit Chakravarty, Mihir Majumder, Dipika Biswas, Sukumar bagchi, Ramanath Bhattacharya, Jagannath Lala, Arun Banik.
The Greatest Poet of this century : Kedar Bhaduri
Kedar Bhaduri is a mysterious poet. Nothing detail about him is known to all. He was born in a distant village of Bangladesh. He became a teacher in his profession in Kolkata after crossing the border of East Bengal. He performed good mime of poetry.He wrote many books of poems which are still not known to us. All the historians of Bengal are requested to discover his books so that he can get the honour for his eternal poems.
The versatile writer Jiban Sarkar, poet and novelist
All of us respect the versatile writer Jiban Sarkar poet, novelist and short story writer. Jiban Sarkar was born in Dhaka district at a beautiful village on the bank of Dhaleswari river. He and his family settled at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district.Jiban was an employee of Cossipore Gun and Shell factory. But his room in Entally was a place of meeting of all writers and poets. Every Sunday, promising writers as well as renowned writers and poets used to take an "adda" in his house. He is so favourite and popular that he has no enemy in the world of literature.
He has written a dozen of books of poems, short stories and novels. He has edited 'tinjan', 'anyadin' and various little magazines. His nephew Chitrabhanu Sarkar is also a famous poet of Kolkata.
Gangotri and Anyadin
The two little magazines namely Gangotri and Anyadin were the milestones in the creative field of little magazine in the decade of seventies. Gangotri was edited by renowned Shantanu Das, the son of eminent poet Dinesh Das and also by Rudrendu Sarkar. Shantanu is a marvelous poet. His book of poems Madhyahner Byadh (fowler of mid-day) and Rudrendu's book Alexander bikri kore danter maajan (Alexander sells tooth powder) brought fame to theselves.'Anyadin' was edited by Sisir Bhattacharya. These two little magazines gathered a group of poets who are too much creative and full of vigour.
The poets of this period are Shantanu , Rudrendu, sisir along with Manindra Roy, Amitava Dasgupta, Alokranjan Dasgupta, Shankha Ghosh, Gouranga Bhoumik, Pratima Roy, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Alokranjan Dasgupta, Shantikumar Ghosh, Subhas Sarkar, Samarendra Sengupta, Goutam Guha, Jiban Sarkar, Haripada Dey, Syed Kawsar Jamal, Samaredra Das, Ananya Roy, Mrinal Basu Choudhury, Somnath Mukhopadhyay, Mridul Dasgupta, Pranab Basu Ray,Dhurjati Chandra, Parameswari Roy Choudhury and many others.
Santanu and Rudrendu edited a collection of poems ; Swanirbachito. This is the first in the history of Bengali poetry to publish photos of each poet.
From Jalpaiguri
we got various powerful poets such as Tushar Bandyopadhyay, Amit Kumar De, Jiban Sarkar, Punyaslok Dasgupta, Anyaman Dasgupta, Chitrabhanu Sarkar, Kumkum Roy, Benu Sarkar, Tanumoy Sarkar, Benu Dutta Roy, Ranjan Nag, Samar Roy Choudhury, Bijoy Dey, Sandhyashri Chakraborty, Rana Sarkar, Nikhil Basu, Shyamal Singha, Moloy Ghosh.coochbehar
The poets wellknown to us are Ranajit Deb, Nitya Malakar, Arunesh Ghosh, Jibatosh Das, Jamaluddin, Nitish Basu, Anubhab Sarkar, Amar Chakraborty, Samir Chattopadhyay, Samar Deb,Sourav Sarkar(9932673196).Shyamal Sarkar(9474828088)Birbhum
The powerful poets of Birbhum are Kabirul Islam, Ashanandan Chattaraj,Amal pal,Adity Mukhopadhyaya, Phalguni Bhattacharyya,Taimur khan, Subir Das, Ekram Ali, Liyakat Ali, Somnath Chattopadhyay, Samaresh Mondal.Murshidabad
In Murshidabad we find Manish Ghatak, Bimal Chakraborty, Utpal Gupta, Sushil Bhowmik, Manishi Mohan Roy, Bijan Bhattacharya, Pradipendu Moitra, Rabin Roy Choudhury, Gokuleswar Ghosh, Sayed Khaled Nawman, Abul Bashar,Sayed Kawsar Jamal, Amitava Moitra, Prashanta Guha Mazumdar, Pompu Mazumdar, Jamil Sayed, Joy Singha, Rabin Biswas, Pushpen Roy, Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Sandip Biswas, Shuvo Chattopadhyay, Naser Hosen, Snehasis Sayed, Nikhil Kumar Sarkar, Nilima Saha, Sourav Mitra, Umapada Kar, Malay Mishra, Amarendra Roy, Nurul Amin Biswas, Ebadul Haque, Narayan Ghosh, Mohammad Saaduddin.Medinipur
In Medinipur district, we have found the glorious sons of soil Sudhir Bera, Amitava Das, Bishweswar Samanta, Madan Mohan Baitalik, Sumitra Dutta Choudhury, Shyamal Kanti Das, Ratan Tanu Ghati, Jaharlal Bera, Haraprasad Sahu, Niranjan Mishra, Asiskumar Mishra, Tamalika Panda Sheth, Asok Mohanty, Sukamal Basu, Achintya Nandi, Bitashok Bhattacharya, Dipak Kar, Biplab Maji, Ankur Saha, Ratan Jana, Surya Nandi, Pranab Maiti, Chitta Sahu, Sudhangshu Bag, Debasis Pradhan, S.Mahiuddin, Amrito Maiti, Tapankumar Maiti, Aniket Patra, Manaskumar Chini, Pravas Fadikar, Soumitra Roy,Sibajyoti Maiti,Saibal sankar chakraborty,Sanjoy Kuilya,Ritwik TripathiHooghly
In Hooghly, there are a lot of poets, namely Roma Ghosh, Biswanath Gorai, Mridul Dasgupta, Somnath Mukhopadhyay,Pranab Basu Ray, Samar Bandyopadhyay, Dinabandhu Hazra, Alokesh Bhattacharya, Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Arup Ansh, Shyamaljit Saha, Pinaki Thakur, Ramkishor Bhattacharya, Samar Bandyopadhyaya, Arunangshu Bhattacharya, Bodhisattwa Bandyopadhyaya, Arunkumar Chakrabarty, Jubin Ghosh, Sudipta Sadhukhan, Sakuntala Sanyal, Banibrata Kundu, Shubhashankar Chakrabarty, Ayan Bandyopadhyaya.Burdwan
Burdwan district may express it's pride with these poets :- Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Satyendranath Dutta, Birendrakumar Bandyopadhyay, Asim Krishna Dutta, Pradip DasSarma, Asit Biswas, Jaya Mitra, Ahana Biswas, Shyamal Baran Saha, Sanchayita Kundu, Sagar Mukhopadhyay, Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay, Arun Gangopadhyay, Kallolshri Mazumdar, Dishari Mukhopadhyay, Mrinal Banik, Bikash Gayen, Rajkumar Roy Choudhury.Kumud Ranjan Mallick,Kashiram DasHowrah
In Howrah district, we know the poets namely Sunil Kumar, Shambhu Rakshit,Ashok Chattophadyay, Brato Chakraborty, Manas Kumar Dutta, Sujit Sarkar, Ajit Bairi, Soumitra Bandyopadhyay, Tusharkanti Das, Promod Basu, Goutamkumar Dey, Himangshu Jana.Sixties : Youthful Dreams in West Bengal
Haren Ghosh, Shuddhsattwa basu,Avijit Ghosh, Sushil Bhowmik, Bijoya Mukhopadhyay, Tapan Bandyopadhyay, Mohini Mohan Gangopadhyay, Abdus Samad, Mohammad Rafik, Mrityunjoy Sen, Uttam Das, Kedar Bhadury, Jiban Sarkar, Sushil Panja, Goutam Guha, Snehasis Sukul, Sikha Sukul, Snehakar Bhattacharya, Nirmal Basu, Pranesh Sarkar, Sisir Bhattacharya, Benu Dutta Roy, Arnab Sen, Tushar Bandyopadh, Gokuleswar Ghosh, Samsul Hak, Samarendra Sengupta.New Voices in West Bengal
Seventies: Poems of Dreams and ProtestsRudrendu Sarkar, Pratyush Prasun Ghosh, Pranab Basu Ray,Pranabkumar Chattopadyay, Satyen Bandyopadhyay, Ram Basu, Siddheswar Sen, Golam Kuddus, Swapan Bandyopadhyay, Aloknath Mukhopadhyay, Biswadeb Mukhopadhyay,Ekram Ali, Wajed Ali, Samarendra Das, Bapi Samaddar,Samar Bandyopadhyay, Sayed Hasmat Jalal,Gour Sankar Bandopadhyay, Subrata Sarkar, Amitava Kanjilal, Anjali Das, Somak Das, Shankar Chakraborty, Jamil Sayed, Shyamal Kanti Das, Promod Basu, Sudhir Bera, Joydev Basu, Chtrabhanu Sarkar,Mridul Dasgupta, Jaharlal Bera, Sukamal Basu, Asok Mohanti, Phalguni Bhattacharyya,Kach Sanyal, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Subrata Chakraborty, Biswanath Ghosh.
Nineties: Atichetanaar Kabita
Poets in this generation are as follows : Sudhir Dutta, Ramchandra Pramanik, Arun Basu, Pradip Roygupta, Pranab Chakraborty, Goutam Hens, Gobinda Chandra Das, Lalan Fakir, Hasan Raja, Gagan Harkara, Subhas Ghosal, Sankar Dey.Poetry of Expansive Consciousness
Sandhya Bhowmik, Kajal Chakraborty, Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Bratati Ghosh Roy, Bhaswati Roy Choudhury, Mohini Mohan Gangopadhyay, Mukul Chattopadhyay, Mobinul Haque, Binod Bera, Sudhendu Maliik, Bisweswar Samanta, Jaharlal Bera, Susnata Jana, Shuvankar Patra.Immortal Poets of West Bengal কবি মৃত , কবি দীর্ঘজীবী হোন
Birendranath Rakshit, Rabin Sur, Manik Chakraborty, Shamser Anwar, Shankar Chattopadhyay, Subrata Chakraborty, Jogabrata Chakraborty, Samsul Haque, Tushar Roy, Falguni Roy, Anyamon Dasgupta, Debanjali Mukhopadhyay, Kabita Singha, Binoy Mazumdar, Ashok Mohanti, Sushil Bhowmik, Manishi Mohan Roy, Pradipendu Moitra, Sukomal Roy Choudhury, Shuvo Chattopadhyay, Arun Banik.New Voices in Kolkata কলকাতার নতুন কন্ঠস্বর
A large number of poets has emerged in Kolkata during the "Read More Poems" movement. The major poets in this movement are Bijoylal Chattopadhyay,Pranabkumar Chattopadhyay,Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Chitra Lahiri, Shuvo Dasgupta, Bratati Bandyopadhyay, Kesto Chattopadhyay, Ramendra Deshmukhya, Ramen Acharya, Sabyasachi Deb, Sukomal Roychoudhury, Nagendra Das, Dinabandhu Hazra, Mridul Dasgupta, Kalikinkar Sengupta, Pratyush Prasun Ghosh,Gour Sankar Bandopadhyay, Binoy Mazumdar, Kabir Suman, Biswajit Chatterjee, Anjan Dutta, Kankabati Dutta, Mandakranta Sen, Mallika Sengupta Sarkar, Shuchismita Dasgupta, Pyarimohan Sengupta, Ananya Roy, Ujjwal Singha, Moti Mukhopadhyay, Niva Dey, Ramesh Purokayastha, Rahul Purokayastha, Rupa Dasgupta, Abhi Sengupta, Manoj Nandi, Anjan Kar, Debaprasad Mukhopadhyay, Keshto Chattopadhyay, Braja Chattopadhyay, Asoke Kumar Roy Choudhury, Kajal Chakraborty, Ishita Bhaduri, Anindita Goswami.Apart from these poets two significant young poets with suburban voices are Sadiq Hussain and Atanu Chatterjee.
Deploring the new spirit and attitude
Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Shatabdi Roy, Mamata Bandyopadhyay, Purnendu Patri, Dibyendu Palit, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Haraprasd Mitra, Kalikinkar Sengupta, Bappadity Bandyopadhyay, Samyabrata Joardar, Soumit Basu, Dibya Mukhopadhyay, Tirthankar Moitra, Tirthankar Das Purokayastha, Krishna Basu, Aneek Rudra, Swapanbaran Acharya, Pradip Acharya, Biman Mahato, Bijoy Singha, Prashanta Halder, Pinaki Ghosh, Rafik-Ul-Islam, Ratneswar Hazra, Mrinal Basu Choudhury,Gour Sankar Bandopadhyay, Mrinal Dutta, Pranab Maiti, Pranab Chattopadhyay.Phalguni Bhattacharyya.Poetry since the 1970s
in the 1970s, Bengali poetry received a new impetus from a group of poets who contributed ideas and poetic diction of their own. The poets are Ananya Roy, Tushar Chowdhury,Ranajit Das, Pranabkumar Chattopadhyay http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/adver/107778.html, Ashok Chattopadhyay, Sunil Kumar, Kamal Chakraborty, Mridul Dasgupta, Syed Kawsar Jamal, Ujjal Singha, Jamil Syed,Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Joy Goswami, Sanjam Pal, Mallika Sengupta.Little magazines like "Shirshabindu", edited by poets-trio of Serampore Samar Bandyopadhyay, Pranab Basu Ray, Somnath Mukhopadhyay played a vital role in this direction.The Bangla poet Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
was the first person (excepting Roosevelt
Roosevelt
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) outside Europe
Europe
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to get the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
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. He is considered as the pioneer of Bangla literature and culture. The year 1893 AD, was the turn of the century in the Bangla calendar. It was the Bangla year 1300. Tagore wrote a poem then. Its name was ‘The year 1400’. In that poem, Tagore was appealing to a new future poet, yet to be born. He urged in that poem to remember Tagore while he was reading it. He addressed it to that unknown poet who was reading it a century later.
A century later, in 1993 (the Bangla year 1400) in Bangladesh a Modern Poet Mahmud Nurul Momen wrote another excellent poem in reply to the poem written hundred years earlier. It was in the same verse as the earlier one, answering and responding to the appeal of Tagore as if Tagore addressed it to him. In it he assured Tagore that contrary to his fear this modern poet has not forgotten him. He said in it: - I am profoundly remembering you while reading this poem. Don t worry! I assure you, you are successful in communicating me a century apart. Another exiting fact is that Momen wrote his poem in the same room where Tagore wrote his one, 100 years earlier.
This idea of Mahmud Nurul Momen was very highly acclaimed and created a sensation. The poem by Momen began thus:- Toma hote shotoborsho porey Later it was included in one of his books which was named 1400 shal .
In fact Mahmud Nurul Momen has a trilogy of poetry books on this theme. They are 1300 shal, 1400 shal and 1500 shal in which Mahmud Nurul Momen carries the baton (like a relay race) given by Rabindranath Tagore and passes it to the future poets, appealing in the same but futuristic way to them.
2011 AD is the 150th birth anniversary year of Rabindranath Tagore. He was born in 1861. Bangladesh s modern and publicity-shy poet Mahmud Nurul Momen was born exactly a century later in 1961. He was the only poet to successfully respond to Tagore s call.That s why literature buffs of Bangla poetry consider him as the true and sole successor to Tagore in Bangla Poetry. Bangla is now the 5th largest language in the world. Its high time Bangladesh, which has been turned into the abode of modern Bangla literature by Mahmud Nurul Momen, once again gets the world's attention in literature again through Mahmud Nurul Momen.
18 years ago Bangladesh s poet Mahmud Nurul Momen was acclaimed as a responder to Tagore s call made a century earlier. This Year, in 2011, he paid his respect again to Tagore by writing another poem welcoming and addressing Tagore at the time of his birth 150 years ago. He wrote it sitting in the same room where Tagore used to sit and write. The poem goes like this:- Aji hote shardho-shotoborsho agey . The name of the book is 1268 shal .
This book is much acclaimed also. But Bangladesh's dear poet Mahmud Nurul Momen is not at all publicity crazy. In fact he wishes to serve poetry silently and without any pomp. That s why he is not that much known, as much as his genius demands.
Apart from being a great poet, Dr. Mahmud Nurul Momen is a great scholar and researcher also. He holds a PhD in literature.
Besides being a futuristic, exceptional and good poet, Mahmud Nurul Momen is also a film-maker and playwright.
Like Alexander Dumas (pere & fils) , Mahmud Nurul Momen is the son of Natyaguru Nurul Momen. The father was the pioneer in Bangladesh s theatre, satire & personal essays. The son is carrying the legend in the field of poetry, translations, journalism, film & media.
Mr. Mahmud Nurul Momen is an accomplished great poet. But he is an accomplished essayist also. He holds a unique record in Bangladesh. From 1984 onwards every year, he wrote different essays on each of the Nobel literature laureates of every year till now. He also translated their works into Bangla. They include poems and short stories by the Nobel Laureates.
Mahmud Nurul Momen is a Poet and a translator. He has translated into Bangla, works of Homer, Horace, Ovid, Sophocles, Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Milton, Moliere, Shelly, Byron, Tolstoy, Twain and others.
He is an art-critic also. Besides discussing about contemporary arts, Mahmud Nurul Momen wrote about Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali and other Masters.
Mahmud Nurul Momen's motherland, Bangladesh, became independent through a bloody war in 1971. He was only nine then. The genocide of three million people during the nine months of liberation war created a grave impact on Mahmud Nurul Momen's mind.
On 1st August, 1971, world famous musicians like George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ravi Shanker and others performed in the 'Concert for Bangladesh' at the Madison Square Garden in New York. This made the cause of Bangladesh globally popular. This event created a sense of great respect for those singers in the psyche of Mahmud Nurul Momen at his tender age. As a result he wrote a long poem named 'Concert for Bangladesh' on 1st August, 2001. Now, on 1st August,2011, he has written another long poem on that event, named 'Harrison, Shanker, Dylan, Clapton : Ami tomader valobashee' (I love you).
In 1988, the birth-centennary year of T.S. Eliot, Mahmud Nurul Momen wrote elaborate essays on his life and works. A couple of years later he wrote the poetry book 'Datta.Dayadhvam.Damyata' in Bangla. It's sequel by Momen was 'Shantih Shantih Shantih'. In these poems Mahmud Nurul Momen explores 'The Waste Land' of the present (particularly Bengal, Asia, the 3rd world & 21st century scenario) in the late 20th century. Here Momen engages in dialogues with Eliot about interactions between Eliot's philosophy and Bangla, Pali/Sankskrit philosophy. He appreciates and delves into Eliot's knowledge of Sankskrit & Bangla mythology.
Two other famous Bangla poems written in the 90's by Mahmud Nurul Momen are 'Avatar' and 'Nirvana'(both Bangla words).
Poets of the 90s
In the 1990s, Mallika SenguptaMallika Sengupta
Mallika Sengupta is a Bengali poet, feminist, and reader of Sociology from Kolkata, known for her "unapologetically political poetry".- Biography :...
is a prominent poet emerged with her "Challis Chander Ayu".
( Not a poet of 90s but a poet of 80s ).But especially Joy Goswami,Subodh Sarkar and Kabir Suman (with his exceptional modern bengali songs—its lyrics and compositions) influenced the new generation poets in 90s.From Presidency College,College street coffee house,Jadavpur University,Jadavpur coffee house many new faces took a important part to create a new genre in Modern Bengali Poetry.Bijalpa,Anyamone,Dharapat,Sahitya Trisha, Shabdajapan,Kabikatha,Kabita Pakshik,Kabita Campus,Gandhar,Anway,Arani and many little magazines and Desh magazine were also publishing simultaneously poetry of young poets regularly.In Presidency and Jadavpur University campus there were a regular practice of Bengali poetry and Bengali Band music,every week.Renowned poet and popular teacher Pranabendu Dasgupta,Nabanita Debsen,Manabendra Bandyopadhyay,Pabitra Sarkar,Amiya Deb,Shibaji Bandyopadhyay encouraged the youngsters.Now many of them are not in practice.Biswajit Chatterjee, Samyarata Joardar,Anindya Sinha,Suman Roy,Bubun Chattopadhyay,Sandip Chattopadhyay,Prasun Bhowmick, BIPLAB CHOWDHURY, Anindya Bose,Dipankar Bagchi,Rajib Bishwas,Sukanta Chakraborty,Mitul Dutta,Ipsita Haldar,Sarthak Roychoudhury,Rajib Sinha,Chiranjib Basu,Shantanu Sarkar,Debatosh Das,Sanjay Moulik,Tapas Dutta,Ayan Goswami,Mouli Misra,Roshnara Misra,Barnali Bandyopadhyay,Sarthak Singharoy,Pratyat Chakraborty,Rupak Chakraborty,Somnath Roy,Souvik Chakraborty,Bappaditya Bandyopadhyay,Avik Bhattacharya,Avik Majumder,Koushik Bhattarcharya,Sudip Basu,Ayan Banerjee,Ranajit Dasgupta and many mores enriched 90s poetry.
Krittibas
Krittibas movementThe modernist movement of modernizing Bengali literature was brought one step further during the 50s, especially with the emergence of the Krittivas magazine. Major poets of this period are Dinesh Das Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Sunil Chandra Sarkar, Rajlakshmi Devi, Ketaki Kushari Dyson, Pranab Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Jasimuddin, Bimal Chandra Ghosh, Manindra Roy, Manindra Gupta, Mangala Charan Chattopadhyay, Kamakshiprasad Chattopadhyay, Kiran Sankar Sengupta, Ram Basu, Biswa Bandyopadhyay, Ramendrakumar Acharya Choudhury, Sunil Basu, Nishikanta, Ranjit Singha, Sadhana Mukhopadhyay, Abul Kashem Rahimuddin, Achintya Kumar Sengupta, Chanchal Chattopadhyay, Ashok Bijoy Raha, Krishnadhan Dey, Batakrishna Dey.
The first issue of Kabipatra was edited by Pabitra Mukhopadhyay, the 2nd by Amar Mitra, 3rd by Subimal Mishra, 4th to 7th by Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay and Sachin Das jointly. Pabitra also used to publish other magazines. many more like Arani Basu, Uday Bhadury, Somak Das,Sayed Hasmat Jalal, Dipak Lahiri, Parombrato Chattopadhyay, Kanailal Jana,Samaresh Mondal, Gour Khanra, Nasim-e-Alam, Tapan Maity, Subhas Gangopadhaya, Giridhari Kundu, Dipak Roy, Chitrita Devi, Kanak Mukhopadhyay, Jugantar Chakraborty, Mohini Mohan Gangopadhyay, Dipankar Roy, Shankho Ghosh were also linked with that movement and contributed writings.
CHANDRAMAS
It's an eminent bengali little magazine published from 1971. the editor of magazine namely Gour Sankar Bandopadhyay continuing the magazine till to date. Senior writers namely Sankha ghaos, Sunil Gangopadhysy, Nirandranath Chakraborty and so many other young writers who are contributing their writings regularly.Zero decade or decade-free catalog
'Lastbench', an antivirus publication, is one of the magazines that featuring poets of contemporary bangla literature from the beginning of the the century, in past years the prominent poets bangla poetry have seen is huge in number, as always. However here is a list of some upcoming young talents:Tanvir Ratul, Muiz Mahfuz, Ovijit Das, Sadi Taif, Saif Ibne Rafiq, Probor Ripon, Mukte Mandal, Nirlipto Noyon, Anonto Uzzol, Said R'man...
See also
- List of Bengali poets
- List of national poetries
- Kavita of Buddhadeva BoseKavita poetry magazineKavita , also spelled Kobita, is a flagship Bengali poetry magazine that played a vital role since 1930s for introducing modernism into Bengali poetry. It was edited and published by poet Buddhadeva Bose.-History:...
- Hungry generationHungry generationThe Hungry Generation was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet i.e. Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy alias Haradhon Dhara, during the 1960s in Kolkata, India...
- List of Bangladeshi poets
- New Age Bengali LiteratureNew Age Bengali LiteratureThe New Age of Bengali literature can be considered to be the phase when new literary works of a unique genre flowered in the experimental literature scene in West Bengal. The inception of such literary works in this period is based on the "Little Magazine Explosion"...
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