Tridib Mitra (born 31 December 1940) was an anti-establishment writer and part of the

Hungry generation The Hungry Generation ( bn, হাংরি জেনারেশান) 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 Royc ...

movement in Bengali literature. Mitra along with his wife, Alo Mitra, edited

magazines "The Waste Paper" in English and "Unmarga" in Bengali. Mitra and his wife started poetry readings in burning ''ghats'', graveyards, river banks, and country liquor joints of

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. He rose to prominence in the sixties during the Hungry generation literary movement. Mitra and his wife delivered Hungry generation masks of demons, jokers, gods etc. at the offices and houses of ministers, administrators, newspaper editors and other bureaucrats of the West Bengali establishment.

Works

*''Ghulghuli'' (Poetry) 1965 *''Hatyakando'' (Poetry) 1967

References

An assessment of Mitra's Firebrand DiscourseTridib Mitra the poet
*Van Tulsi Ka Gandh by Phanishwar Nath 'Renu',

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, Delhi (1984) *Intrepid Edited by Carl Weissner,

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, US (1968) *Salted Feathers Edited by Dick Bakken.

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, US (1967) *City Lights Journal No 1, Edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti,

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, US (1963) *El Corno Emplumado No 9, Edited by Margaret Randall, Argentina (1964) *Kulchur No 15 Edited by

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, New York, US (1964) *Indian Poetry Edited by Prof Howard McCord,

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, US (1965) *Hungry Kingbadanti Written by

, Dey Books, Kolkata (1996) *Hungry Shruti O Shastrovirodhi Andolon by Dr Uttam Das, Mahadiganto Publishers, Kolkata 700 144 (1986)

External links

Tridib Mitra's Poetry of ProtestTridib Mitra and other Hungry generation members: PhotographsTridib Mitra's paper on Hungryalist Influence on Allen Ginsberg
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