Tridib Mitra

Tridib Mitra
Born(1940-12-31)December 31, 1940
India
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
Bengali
Literary movementHungry Generation
SpouseAlo Mitra

Tridib Mitra (born 31 December 1940) was an anti-establishment writer and part of the Hungry generation movement in Bengali literature of the 1960s.[1][2][3]

Along with his wife, Alo Mitra, he edited Hungry generation 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 Kolkata.[4] They also delivered Hungry generation masks of demons, jokers and gods to the offices and houses of ministers, administrators, newspaper editors and other bureaucrats of the West Bengali establishment.[5]

  1. ^ "HUNGRYALIST MOVEMENT - A Photo-Text Album". www.kaurab.com. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  2. ^ Chowdhury, Maitreyee B. (December 2018). The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution. Penguin Books, Limited. ISBN 978-0-670-09085-3.
  3. ^ "The Hungry Generation - TIME". 8 March 2008. Archived from the original on 8 March 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  4. ^ "The life and times of the Hungry Generation of modern Bengali poets, arguably the most dynamic and divisive literary movement of its generation". The Indian Express. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  5. ^ Chowdhury, Maitreyee Bhattacharjee (8 January 2019). "A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s". Scroll.in. Retrieved 7 May 2022.