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Malay Roy Choudhury is a Bengal

Bengal

Bengal is a historical and geographical region in the northeast region of the Indian Subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. Today, it is mainly divided between the sovereign land of People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, although some regions of the previous...

i poet

Poetry

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and novel

Novel

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ist 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. Commemorative issues have been published by Ahabkal and Aabar Eshechhi Phirey magazines on Malay Roychoudhury. Prof Swati Banerjee has based her MPhil thesis on his poems' anti-establishment features. Gale Research, based in Ohio, United States, published an autobiography

Autobiography

An autobiography is a book about the life of a person, written by that person.-Origin of the term:...

of Roy Choudhury (in CAAS vol. 14), and both the Bangla Academy

Bangla Academy

Bangla Academy , established on 3 December 1955, is the national academy for promoting Bangla language in Bangladesh. The main office of the organization is located at the Burdwan House, once a part of the campus of the University of Dhaka, beside Suhrawardy Udyan.-History:The importance of...

and the Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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(Illinois

Illinois

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), have archives of Roy Choudhury's "Hungry Literary Generation" publications. The Little Magazine Library and Research Centre, Kolkata has a complete section devoted to Malay Roychoudhury's works. Prof B.Dey of Assam University has been awarded Ph D for his 350 page seminal work on Malay Roy Choudhury and The Hungryalist Movement.

Launching of Literary Movement

The 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...

literary Movement was initially spearheaded by Roy Choudhury, 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...

(his elder brother), 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:...

, and Haradhon Dhara (alias Debi Roy

Debi Roy

Debi Roy is one of the founding fathers of the Hungry generation movement in Bengali literature. He is also the first modern Dalit poet in Bengali. He was born in a very poor family and worked as an errand boy in tea stalls of Calcutta when his parents lived in a slum in Howrah. He funded his own...

). Thirty more poets and artists subsequently joined them, the best-known being 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...

, Utpal Kumar Basu, Falguni Roy

Falguni Roy

Falguni Roy was an anti-establishment Bengali poet. Along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Subimal Basak, Debi Roy ,Utpalkumar Basu, Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Basudeb Dasgupta, Roy was also associated with the Hungryalist movement.-Film on Falguni:A...

, 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....

, 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...

, Rabindra Guha

Rabindra Guha

Rabindra Guha [ রবীন্দ্র গুহ ] is a Bengali poet of the Hungry generation movement in literature who subsequently started the Neem Sahitya Andolan with Mrinal Banik and Biman Chattopadhyay from the steel factory city of Durgapur in West Bengal. He has written several collections of poetry, short...

, and 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...

.

Roy Choudhury is to the "Hungryalist Movement" as Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé

Stéphane Mallarmé , whose real name was Étienne Mallarmé, was a French poet and critic. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Dadaism, Surrealism, and Futurism.-Biography:Stéphane...

was to Symbolism

Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...

, Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

to Imagism

Imagism

Imagism was a movement in early 20th-century Anglo-American poetry that favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language. The Imagists rejected the sentiment and discursiveness typical of much Romantic and Victorian poetry. This was in contrast to their contemporaries, the Georgian poets,...

, André Breton

André Breton

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....

to Surrealism

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

, and Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

to the Beats. The movement is now known in English as Hungryalism or the "Hungry generation

Hungry generation

", its name being derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's "In the sowre hungry tyme"; the philosophy was based on Oswald Spengler's "The Decline of the West". The movement's bulletins were published both in Bengali

Bengali language

Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

and infrequently in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

as well as Hindi Language by Roy Choudhury since November 1961. The movement, however, petered out in 1965. Thereafter Roy Choudhury ventured out, apart from poetry, into fiction, drama, and essays on social and cultural issues that Bengali people have been suffering from.

Howard McCord

Howard McCord

Howard McCord is an American writer. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Bowling Green State University, where he was Director of the Creative Writing Program for most of the past quarter-century...

, formerly English teacher at the Washington State University

Washington State University

Washington State University is a public research university based in Pullman, Washington, in the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1890, WSU is the state's original and largest land-grant university...

and later professor of English language and literature at Bowling Green University, who met Roy Choudhury during a visit to Calcutta, has succinctly traced Malay's emergence in these words in Ferlinghetti-edited City Lights Journal 3: "Malay Roy Choudhury, a Bengali poet, has been a central figure in the Hungry Generation's attack on the Indian cultural establishment since the movement began in the early 1960s". He wrote, "acid, destructive, morbid, nihilistic, outrageous, mad, hallucinatory, shrill--these characterize the terrifying and cleansing visions" of Malay Roy Choudhury that "Indian literature must endure if it is to be vital again".

Confessional Poetry

With his poem Prachanda Baidyutik Chhutar or Stark Electric Jesus written in 1963, which was the reason why the Hungryalists had to face administrative wrath, Malay Roy Choudhury introduced Confessional poetry in Bengali literature. The poem defied the forms of lyric poetry (sonnet,villanel, minnesang, pastourelle, canzone, stew etc.) as well as Bengali meters (Matrabritto and Aksharbritto), retaining, however, its content vehicle, expressing subjective personal feelings. Roy Choudhury's formlessness is different from Pindar

Pindar

Pindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...

and Rilke. Malay's better known poem is Jakham which has been translated into other languages.

Post-1960s

Although the Hungryalist Literary Movement (হাংরি আন্দোলন) gradually faded after 1965, it is today hailed by several poets and commentators as the most important movement in post-colonial Bengali creative literature. Roy Choudhury has been identified as a major post-colonial poet and novelist, and remains the single most controversial Bengali thinker in the past four decades. During that period, he had experimented with various genres, and amongst his works, the most discussed are the poetry collections: Medhar Batanukul Ghungur, Naamgandho, and Illot, and the short story, "Aloukik Dampatya". His complete poetical work was published in 2005. He has written about 60 books since he launched the Hungryalist Movement in November 1961.

Translations

Roy Choudhury has translated into Bengali the works of William Blake

William Blake

William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...

("Marriage of Heaven and Hell"), Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...

("A Season in Hell"), Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara

Tristan Tzara was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement...

("Dada Manifestos", and poems), Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...

("Crucifixion"), Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

Frédéric Louis Sauser , better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss novelist and poet naturalized French in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement.-Early years:...

("Trans-Siberian Express"), and Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...

("Howl" and "Kaddish"). Ginsberg stayed with Roy Choudhury's parents in 1963.

Roy Choudhury's grandfather, Lakshmi Narayan Roychoudhury, who was from the Sabarna Choudhury clan

Clan

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, was a pioneer photographer

Photography

Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...

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...

. He had been trained in photography and drawing by Rudyard Kipling's father who was Curator at Lahore Museum. Lakshmi Narayan used to move from one princely state to another throughout the country with his entire family, which gave the family a broader vista of life and humanity. At old age he established a firm in 1886 that created life-sized oil paintings for the Maharaja

Maharaja

Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a "great king" or "high king". The female equivalent title Maharani denotes either the wife of a Maharaja or, in states where that was customary, a woman ruling in her own right. The widow of a Maharaja is known as a Rajamata...

s and their kin. Roy Choudhury's father, Ranjit, carried on the business till his death in 1991. Roy Choudhury's mother, Amita (whose father Kishori Mohan Banerjee was Ronald Ross's assistant) died in 1982.
Roy Choudhury now lives in Mumbai with his wife, Shalila, who was a field hockey

Field hockey

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player from Nagpur

Nagpur

Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

when he first met her. His daughter Anushree Prashant resides in Holland with her husband and two daughters; his son resides in Kolkata, India with his wife.

Adhunantika Phase অধুনান্তিক পর্ব

Since 1995, Roy Choudhury's writings, both poetry and fiction took a dramatic turn, which has been termed as the Adhunantika Phase in Bengali literature. The term Adhunantika was coined by linguist Dr Prabal Dasgupta. Adhunantika was constructed out of two Bengali words: Adhuna, meaning new, current, present times, contemporary, modern etc.; and Antika, meaning closure, adjacent, end, extreme, beyond etc. The contemporary condition in West Bengal, India was in urgent need for a term to define itself. The appellation Adhunantika suited the condition best, and was acceptable at the academic as well as micro-cultural world of little magazines. In his post-Hungryalist phase, specially after his poetry collection MEDHAR BATANUKUL GHUNGUR and fiction DUBJALEY JETUKU PRASHWAS, Roy Choudhury emerged as the best interpreter of our times. In this phase his poetry collections were Chitkar Samagra, Chhatrakhan, Ja Lagbey Bolben, Atmadhangser Sahasrabda, Postmodern Ahlader Kobita and Kounaper Luchimangso. His novels, written during this period, specially, Namgandho, Jalanjali, Nakhadanta, Ei Adham Oi Adham and Arup Tomar Entokanta became benchmark for creative Bengali writing.

Memoirs

Malay's father Ranjit (1909–1981)was a known photographer-artist at Patna. his mother Amita (1916–1982)was from a progressive family of 19th century renaissance.Roy Choudhury, on request from younger generation admirers, embarked on a tell-all memoir writing at the end of 1990s. He wrote Chhotoloker Chhotobela and Abhimukher Upajibya in three parts. Such confessional memoirs have rarely been recorded in Bengali till date. He had spent his childhood in the Imlitala ghetto of Patna town (Bihar, India) inhabited by Dalit Hindus and Shia Muslims, where there have never been riots even during pre-independence nightmare. All the mud-houses in the vicinity as well as the local mosque was accessible to the children of the area. Theirs was the only Bengali family. This ghetto life had positively impacted Roy Choudhury and his brother Samir. Roy Choudhury's uncle Pramod was Keeper of Paintings & Sculpture at the Patna Museum, where the young Malay and Samir used to pass whole day moving from room to room as they wished, from pre-historic to Middle Ages to modern time relics. This had been a rare opportunity to relate with the past of not only India but with the whole world.
Roy Choudhury was born into the Sabarna Roy Choudhury

Sabarna Roy Choudhury

Sabarna Ray Chaudhury family were the Zamindar of the Kolkata area, prior to the arrival of the British. On November 10, 1698, they transferred, by lease, their rights over the three villages – Sutanuti, Kalikata and Gobindapur - to the East India Company...

Clan of Bengal who owned the villages which later came to be known as Calcutta or Kolkata.The Kalighat temple was established by his ancestor Kamdeva Brahmachari and his ancestor Lakshmikanta was an adviser to Maharaja Pratapaditya who had defied Mughal Emperors. History of Bengal runs in Roy Choudhury's veins.

Influences

His childhood experiences in a Dalit-Shia Muslim ghetto gave Roy Choudhury several positive dimensions to his identity. At the age of three he was admitted to the local Catholic School by Father Hillman, who was a photographer and knew Malay's father. He had to attend Bible classes in the school and that is how Malay entered the world of Old and New Testaments, and eventually, western literature. After completion of primary schooling at the Catholic School, Malay was sent to the Oriental Seminary

Oriental Seminary

The Oriental Seminary started in 1829 by the educator Gour Mohan Addy, was the earliest privately run, first-rate school for Hindu children only in Kolkata . It was open to Hindu boys only. It was possibly India’s first fully private school, as even Hindu School, then known as Hindu College, had to...

administered by the Brahmo Samaj

Brahmo Samaj

Brahmo Samaj is the societal component of the Brahmo religion which is mainly practiced today as the Adi Dharm after its eclipse in Bengal consequent to the exit of the Tattwabodini Sabha from its ranks in 1859. It was one of the most influential religious movements responsible for the making of...

(Brama Samaj was a monotheistic religious movement, founded in 1830 in Kolkata by Ram Mohun Roy who attempted to recover the simple worship of the Vedas and purify Hinduism), a completely Bengali cultural world where he came across student-cum-librarian Namita Chakraborty, who introduced Roy Choudhury to Sanskrit and Bengali classics. All religious activities were banned in this school. Roy Choudhury claims that his childhood experience has made him instinctively secular.

Awards

Roy Choudhury was bestowed with the Sahitya Academy award for translating Dharamvir Bharati

Dharamvir Bharati

Dr. Dharamvir Bharati was a renowned Hindi poet, author, playwright and a social thinker of India. He was the Chief-Editor of the popular Hindi weekly magazine Dharmayug....

's Suraj Ka Satwan Ghora in 2003, Government of India's highest award in the field, which he politely refused to accept as he never accepts literary and cultural awards; he has been refusing awards from various periodicals since he started writing poetry. This is a feat unheard of in India.

Film

Srijit Mukherji

Srijit Mukherji is an erstwhile economist, actor, director, lyricist, and theatrician from the Indian movie industry of West Bengal, Kolkata.-Early life:...

has directed a film in 2011 titled Baaishey Shrabon wherein the role of Hungryalist poet has been portrayed by famous film-director Gautam Ghosh.

Sources and Reference Books

Malay Roy Choudhury Compendium edited by Murshid A.M. (Contributors: Sibnarayan Ray, Phanishwarnath Renu, Biswajit Sen, Satyajit Bandyopadhyay, Tapodhir Bhattacharya, Ajit Ray, Parthapratim Bandyopadhyay, Subimal Basak, Arunkumar Chattopadhyay, Zahirul Hassan, Goutam Sengupta, Samir Sengupta, Barin Ghoshal, Udayan Ghosh, Shubhankar Das, Samarjit Singha, Samir Roychoudhury, Yashodhara Raychaudhuri, Shantanu Bandyopadhyay, Rafiq Ul Islam, Utpalkumar Basu, Tapankumar Maity, Arup Chowdhury, Mizanur Rahman, Shankarnath Chakraborty, Shalila Roychoudhuri, Anushree Prashant, Bimalkumar Mukhopadhyay, Manoj Nandi, Arabinda Pradhan, Kalim Khan and Prabir Chakraborty). Published by Avishkar Prakashani, Kolkata-70, India (2002).

Hungryalist Interviews Of Malay Roy Choudhury edited by Ajit Ray. (Interviewers: Adrish Biswas, Syed Samidul Alam, Shankar Sarkar, Basab Dasgupta, Bibekananda Chattopadhyay, Dipen Ray, Arunesh Ghosh, Kunal Mandal, Mandira Pal, Partha Mukhopadhyay and Farzana Warsi). Published by Mahadiganta Publishers, Kolkata, India. (1999)

Postmodern Interviews of Malay Roychoudhury edited by Arabinda Pradhan. (Interviewers: Sudakskshina Chattopadhyay, Debashis Hajra, Anurag Mahato, Mrinalkanti Rakshit, Chitrabhanu Singha, Prabuddha Bhattacharya, Gargi Ghosh Dastidar, Ajitkumar Bhowmik, Sayantani Pal, Debaprasad Sarkar, Indrani Ghosh, Shatadal Datta, Shyamal Shill, Bapi Chakraborty, Durbadal Dutta, Tarjani, Dhurjati Chanda, Ratan Biswas, Anadiranjan Biswas, Murshid A.M., Arabinda Pradhan, Kalim Khan, Tapas Mitra and Pranabendu Debnath. Published by Graffiti Publishers, Kolkata-26, India. (2004)

Van Tulsi Ki Gandh by Phanishwarnath Renu. Published by Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi-2, India. (1984).

Hungry Shruti & Shastravirodhi Andolon by Dr Uttam Das. Published by Mahadiganta Publishers, Kolkata, India. (1986).

Shater Dashaker Kabita by Mahmud Kamal. Published by Shilpataru Prakashani, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh. (1991)

Hungry-Adhunantik Malay edited by Ratan Biswas. (Contributors: Milton Ray, Arun Banik, Alam Khorshed, Kanai Ghosh, Kamal Hossen, Gopal Nath, Chaitali Chattopadhyay, Jagat Laha, Dipankar Bagchi, Nilanjan Chattopadhyay, Prabhat Mishra, Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Sabyasachi Deb, Dipankar Ghosh, Dipankar Dutta, Ajit Ray, Zahirul Hasan, Makhanlal Pradhan, Mohinimohan Gangopadhyay, Sibabrata Dewanji, Samir Roychoudhury, Sunil Mandal, Suprio Bagchi, and Surojit Sen). Published bt Ahabkal Publications, Kolkata, India. (Reg. No. WBBEN/2000/1981). (2002)

Salted Feathers edited by Dick Bakken. Portland, Oregon, USA (1967)

Intrpidedited by Carl Weissner, Buffalo, NY. USA (1968)

English Letters To Malay edited by Tridib Mitra. Hungry Books, Howrah, India. (1968)

Bangla Letters To Malay edited by Alo Mitra. Hungry Books, Howrah, India. (1969)

SWAPNA (Malay Roy Choudhury Special Issue, 15th Year, #1, 2008). Nabin Chandra College, Assam. Editor Prof Bishnu Dey. Contributors: Dr Tarun Mukhopadhyay, Head of Bengali Department, Calcutta, University, Prof Shital Choudhury, Bengali Department, Chandan Nagar College, Dr Shankar Bhattacharjee, English Department, Mizoram College, Rana Chattopadhyay, Anupam Mukhopadhyay, Shyamal Shill, Pinasi Rajasthani and Prof Kumar Vishnu Dey. Drawings by Prakash Karmakar and Anil Karanjai.

Sambhar Malay Roy Choudhury's Interview by Amitava Deb. Sambhar Publications, Silchar, Assam. 2008.

Savarna Barta. Hungryalist Movement and Sabarna Roy Choudhury Clan by Dr Sonali Mukherjee, Tarkeshwar College. kolkata. 2008.

Bodh Malay Roy Choudhury's Poetry by Uttam Chakraborty. Rupnarayanpur, West Bengal, India. 2008.
STARK ELECTRIC JESUS ( 1965 edition ) with foreword by Prof Howard McCord. Tribal Press. Amazon.com price $250.

Important Literary Works

English

Stark Electric Jesus with Introduction by Howard McCord, Tribal Press, Washington DC, 1965.

Autobiography, CAAS # 14 and 215, Gale Research Inc., Ohio, 1980.

Selected Poems with Introduction by P. Lal, Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 1989.

Hattali (Long Poem), Mahadiganta Publishers, Kolkata, 1989.

Overview: Postmodern Bangla Poetry (Non-fiction), Haowa#49 Publishers, Kolkata, 2001.

Overview: Postmodern Bangla Short Stories (Non-fiction), Haowa#49 Publishers, Kolkata, 2001.

Bengali

Shoytaner Mukh (Collected Poems), Krittibas Prakashani, Kolkata, 1963.

Hungry Andoloner Kavyadarshan (Hungryalist Manifesto), Debi Ray, Howrah, 1965.

Jakham (Long Poem), Zebra Publications, Kolkata, 1966.

Kabita Sankalan (Collection of Hungryalist Poems), Mahadiganta Publishers, Kolkata, 1986.

Chitkarsamagra (Postmodern Poems), Kabita Pakshik, Kolkata, 1995.

Chhatrakhan (Postmodern Poems), Kabitirtha Publishers, Kolkata, 1995.

Allen Ginsberg's Kaddish (Translation), Kabitirtha Publishers, Kolkata, 1995.

Ja Lagbey Bolben (Postmodern Poems), Kaurab Prakashani, Jamshedpur, 1996.

Tristan Tzara's Poems (Translation), Kalimati Publishers, Jamshedpur, 1996.

Allen Ginsberg's Howl (Translation), Kabita Pakshik, Kolkata, 1996.

Jean Cocteau's Cricifixion (Translation), Kabita Pakshik, Kolkata, 1996.

Blaise Cendrar's Trans Siberian Express (translation), Amritalok Prakashani, Midnapur, 1997.

A (Deconstruction of 23 Poems), Kabita Pakshik, Kolkata, 1998.

Autobiography of Paul Gaugin (Translation), Graffiti Publishers, Kolkata, 1999.

Jean Arthur Rimbaud (Critique), Kabitirtha Publishers, Kolkata, 1999.

Life of Allen Ginsberg (non-fiction), Kabitirtha Prakashani, Kolkata, 2000.

Atmadhangsher Sahasrabda (Collected Poems), Graffiti Publishers, Kolkata, 2000.

Bhennogalpo (Collection of Postmodern Short Stories), Dibaratrir Kavya, Kolkata, 1996.

Dubjaley Jetuku Prashwas (Novel), Haowa#49 Publishers, 1994.

Jalanjali (Novel), Raktakarabi Publishers, Kolkata, 1996.

Naamgandho (Novel), Sahana Publishers, Dhaka, 1999.

Natoksamagra (Collection of Drama), Kabitirtha Prakashani, Kolkata, 1998.

Hungry Kimvadanti (Hungryalist Memoir), Dey Books, Kolkata, 1994.

Postmodernism (Non-fiction), Haowa#49 Publishers, Kolkata, 1995.

Adhunikatar Biruddhey Kathavatra (Non-fiction), Kabita Pakshik, Kolkata, 1999.

Hungryalist Interviews (Edited by Ajit Ray), Mahadiganta Publishers, Kolkata, 1999.

Postmodern Kalkhando O Bangalir Patan (Non-fiction), Khanan Publishers, Nagpur, 2000.

Ei Adham Oi Adham (Novel), Kabitirtha Publishers, Kolkata, 2001.

Nakhadanta (Postmodern Novel), Haowa#49 Publishers, Kolkata, 2001.

Poems: 2004-1961 (Collection of Poems), Avishkar Prakashani, Kolkata, 2005.

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