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Samir Roy Chowdhury | |
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 Samir resting at home in Kolkata, West Bengal | |
| Born | 1 November 1933 |
| Died | 22 June 2016 (aged 82) Kolkata (Calcutta), West Bengal, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and writer |
| Movement | Postmodernism and hungryalism |
Samir Roychowdhury (Bengali: সমীর রায়চৌধুরী) (1 November 1933 – 22 June 2016),[1] one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation[2] (also known as Hungryalism or Hungrealism (1961–1965)), was born at Panihati, West Bengal, in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers, and musicians. His grandfather Lakshminarayan, doyen of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan of Uttarpara, had learned drawing and bromide-paper photography from John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, who was Curator at the Lahore Museum (now in Pakistan), and thereafter established the first mobile photography-cum-painting company in India in the mid-1880s. The company was later taken over by Samir's father Ranjit (1909–1991). Samir's mother Amita (1916–1982) was from a progressive family of 19th-century Bengal renaissance.
- ^ Samir Roychoudhury, co-founder of Hungry Generation, dead
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