Hungry Generation

Bengali literary movement

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Bengali literature

  • Rabindranath Tagore
    In Bengali literature: Literary movements

    The Hungry Generation was an avant-garde movement launched by a group of writers known as the Hungryalist quartet: Shakti Chatterjee, Malay Roychoudhury, Debi Roy, and Samir Roychoudhury. Established with disruptive intent, the movement lasted for some years in the 1960s and challenged existing ideas about literature.

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