Basudeb Dasgupta (31 December 1938 – 31 August 2005) is an Indian novelist and short-story writer associated with 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 R ...
movement in
Bengali literature
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. He is considered one of the most significant
avant-garde
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and controversial figures in the history of Bengali literature.
Early life and education
His family came to India as refugees following the partition of Bengal in 1947. He graduated with an honours in Bengali literature from the
Scottish Church College
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in 1961, which he followed with a degree in education. Between 1965 and till his retirement in 1999, he taught in a school.
Writings
Basudeb's major contribution to Bengali literature spanned from the early 1960s to the mid-1980s. His distinct styled short stories of that span include ''Randhanshala'' (1963), ''Ratanpur'' (1964), ''Basantoutsav'' (1964), ''Riputarito'' (1965), ''Bamanrahasya'' (1965), ''Abhiramer Chalaphera'' (1967), ''Leni Bruce O Gopal Bhandke'' (1968), ''Debotader Koyekminit'' (1971), ''Dr. Wanger Gopan Sanket'' (1972), ''Baba'' (1975) and ''Durbin'' (1983).
His only collection of short stories, ''Randhanshala'', was first published in 1965. It is considered a Hungry-classic and reprinted in 1983.
Basudeb Dasgupta published his first novel titled ''Utpat'' in 1962 in ''Upadruto'' journal and the second one ''Kheladhula'' (probably the most significant one) in 1981 in ''Dandashuk'' journal.
Thereafter Basudeb wrote a few short stories such as ''Bondi Bastabata'' (1986), ''Mrityuguha Thekey'' (in two installments in 1986 and 1987), ''Shesh Praharer Abhijan'' (1987), ''Eso'' (1990) and ''Mouno Nagarir Itikatha'' (in two installments in 1995 and 1996), but he had lost the previous magical charm of his prose style and imaginative fictional world.
Books
* ''Randhanshala'' (Short story, 1965)
* ''Break Your Silence Please ''(Conversations, letters, diary entries, stray proses, 2006, Monfakira
)
* ''Kheladhula'' (Novel, 2007, Monfakira)
* ''Lenny Bruce O Gopal Vand Ke'' (Short story, 2009, Open Secret)
See also
*
Shakti Chattopadhyay
Shakti Chattopadhyay (25 November 1933 – 23 March 1995) was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in Bengali language, Bengali. He is known for his realistic depictions of rural life. He was a green poet, many of his poems raised the issue of n ...
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Binoy Majumdar
Binoy Majumdar ( bn, বিনয় মজুমদার) (17 September 1934 – 11 December 2006) was a Bengali poet. Binoy received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2005.
Biography
Binoy Majumdar was born in Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) on 17 Septe ...
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Sandipan Chattopadhyay
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Samir Roychoudhury
Samir Roychowdhury (Bengali: সমীর রায়চৌধুরী) (1 November 1933 – 22 June 2016), one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation (also known as Hungryalism or Hungrealism (1961–1965)), was born at Panihati, W ...
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Subimal Basak
Subimal Basak, ( bn, সুবিমল বসাক) 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.
The Hungry Ge ...
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Malay Roy Choudhury
Malay Roy Choudhury (born 29 October 1939) is an Indian Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s.
Early life and education
Malay Roy Choudhury was born in Patna, ...
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Tridib Mitra
Tridib Mitra (born 31 December 1940) was an anti-establishment writer and part of the Hungry generation movement in Bengali literature. Mitra along with his wife, Alo Mitra, edited Hungry generation magazines "The Waste Paper" in English and "Un ...
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Falguni Roy
Falguni Roy (; 1945–1981) was an anti-establishment Bengali poet born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Along with Shakti Chattopadhyay, Malay Roy Choudhury, Samir Roychoudhury, Subimal Basak, Debi Roy (Haradhon Dhara), Utpal Kumar Basu, Bino ...
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Hungryalism
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 ...
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Anil Karanjai
Anil Karanjai (27 June 1940 – 18 March 2001) 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 ...
References
External links
Essays by Educationists on the Movement ''
Time
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''. November 20, 1964.
Photographs of participants including Basudeb Dasgupta
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1938 births
2005 deaths
Bengali-language literature
Bengali novelists
Bengali-language writers
20th-century Indian short story writers
Indian male novelists
Hungry generation
Scottish Church College alumni
University of Calcutta alumni
20th-century novelists
Indian male short story writers
20th-century Indian male writers
Poets from West Bengal