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Malay Roychoudhury
(29th October 1939 / Patna, Bihar, India)
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  Biography of Malay Roychoudhury

Malay Roychoudhury, a Bengali poet, novelist, dramatist, short story writer and essayist, had launched the famous Hungryalist Movement(also known as The Hungry Generation) alongwith his elder brother Samir Roychoudhury, Shakti Chattopadhyay and Haradhon Dhara (alias Debi Roy) during 1915 and 1965.Others who joined the movement were Binoy Majumdar, Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Pradip Choudhuri, Subo Acharya, Falguni Ray, Tridib Mitra, Alo Mitra, Anil Karanjai, Karunanidhan Mukhopadhyay, Ramananda Chattopadhyay, Utpalkumar Basu, Saileswar Ghgosh, Subhash Ghosh etc.
Malay Roychoudhurey's poem STARK ELECTRIC JESUS became the ultimet achievement of the movement. The poem has been translated into many languages. Prof Swati Banerjee has done her M.Phil. on Malay's poetry.

Malay Roychoudhury's Published Books:

1) Selected Poems, Writers Workshop, Kolkata
2) Postmodernism, Haowa49, Kolkata 700070
3) Novel Trilogy[Dubjaley, Jalanjali, Naamgandho], Kolkata.
4) Natoksamagra[Drama], Kabitirtha, Kolkata 700023
5) Complete Poems[2004-1964], Avishkar, Bansdroni, Kolkata
6) Translations of Blake, Lorca, Neruda, Cardenal, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Tzara
 
 
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  STARK ELECTRIC JESUS: The Famous Lo

Oh I'll die I'll die I'll die
My skin is in blazing furore
I do not know what I'll do where I'll go oh I am sick
I'll kick all Arts in the butt and go away Shubha
Shubha let me go and live in your cloaked melon
In the unfastened shadow of dark destroyed saffron curtain
The last anchor is leaving me after I got the other anchors lifted
I can't resist anymore, a million glass panes are breaking in my cortex
I know, Shubha, spread out your matrix, give me peace
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