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Polyphony: The call of Bengal, the idea of Bengal
THE ASIAN AGE. | SUDEEP SEN
Published : Mar 27, 2020, 5:04 pm IST
Updated : Mar 27, 2020, 5:15 pm IST
Four very different books that are equally engaging for the stories they tell and how they choose to tell them
Title: The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution.
Author: Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury.
Publisher: Penguin. Pages: 188. Price: Rs.599.
The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution by
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury (Penguin)
is a captivating read for
anyone interested in poetry and lives
of poets, and also those
interested in the period of Indian history
where the ‘Hungry Generation’
group of “barnstorming,
anti-establishment poets, writers and artists
in Bengal in
the 1960s” altered the literary terrain there and beyond
(including Beat Generation poets like Allen Ginsberg).
Using a judicious
mix of non-fiction/fiction techniques,
Chowdhury lays before us an
extraordinary story of our time
that has largely gone unmapped. This is
an urgent and
important book written with intelligence and lucidity.
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