WEEKLY MANIFESTO OF THE HUNGRY GENERATION
Editor:Debi Ray Leader:Shakti Chatterjee Creator:Malay Roychoudhury
Poetry is no more a civilizing manoeuvre , a replanting of the bamboozled gardens; it is a holocaust, a violent and somnambulistic jazzing of the hymning five, a sowing of the tempestual Hunger.
Poetry is an activity of the narcissistic spirit. Naturally, we have discarded the blanketyblank school of modern poetry, the darling of the press, where poetry does not resurrect itself in an orgasmic flow, but words come out bubbling in an artificial muddle. In the prosed-rhyme of those born-old half-literates, you must fail to find that scream of desperation of a thing wanting to be man, the man wanting to be spirit.
Poetry of the younger generation too has died in the dressing room, as most of the younger prose-rhyme writers, afraid of the satanism, the vomitous horror, the self-elected crucifixion of the artist that makes a man a poet, fled away to hide in the hairs.
Poetry from Achintya to Ananda, and from Alokeranjan to Indraneel, has been cryptic, short-hand, cautiosly glamorous, flattered by own sensitivity like a public-school prodigy. Saturated with self-consciousness, poems have begun to appear from the tomb of logic or the bier of unsexed rhetoric.
-Published by Haradhon Dhara from 269 Netaji Subhas Road, Howrah, West Bengal,India
Introduction To The Hungryialist Movement
The Hungry Movement was a massive setback to the Bengali Literature with its effects diminished to an extent by the ornamented writers of that era. Involvement in this avant garde cultural movement, the leaders lost their jobs and were jailed by the incumbent government. The protagonists challenged contemporary ideas about literature and contributed significantly to the evolution of the language and idiom used by contemporaneous artists to express their feelings in literature and painting. With Sunil Gangopadhyay poking his superficial nose to retrieve the movement and Shakti Chattopadhyay pressurized to leave the movement and criticize it,the movement is marked as a failure.Now when I first came thorugh the word Hungry Movement,the only thing the strike me with was the name.
Why the movement was named so?....
Socio-cultural Sarvagrasa, or devouring as a concept, that Malay Roy Choudhury was trying to put into a contemporary mold, had Indian puranic or mythological connotations as lord Shiva became Sarvagrasi when he drank the poison that up-welled in the aftermath of churning of the seas (samudra manthana) by gods and demons in order to protect the universe. Initially Malay had decided to use the term Sarvagrasi Prajanma or the Devouring Generation. He felt, quite rightly, that such a term would not be authentically acceptable, and may even carry wrong signals. He opted for the words Hungry Generation.
Now when it comes to the influence the movement had on me.....
Till 2015 end, I was someone who was pretty much occupied with the ornamented literature with the likes of the Elizabethan Poetry but my beliefs and ethics got reversed from the day when the film "Meghe Dhaka Tara" by Kamaleshwar got screened before me.The movie gave a huge setback to the thoughts and bunch of ethics that I used to possess. Although the film was no were connected to the Hungryialist Movement ,yet it talked of an art which was beyond my knowledge and portrayed an artist who became a Legend to me.
Yes, Rwitik Ghatak... he is.
The man who was the forerunner of thoughts which diminished the burjoey culture.He talked of the realism. He talked of sense. For I belong to a generation which finds craziness in the works of Ray, I was alone standing aside the beloved works of Ghatak.
Later when I witnessed the character of a Hungryialist Poet in the film Baishey Shrabon acted by Gautam Ghose, I came to know about the Hungry Generation properly. The film portrayed the character to an extent which made the viewers of this generation know about the feelings behind a poet who revolts against the socio-cultural ethics which prevailed for a century or two.Then being moved by the Movement's Background and intent it attracted me to the fullest. The more I went through the backdrops and events of the movement, the greater it attracted me towards the world of realism.It doesn't matter whether the Movement succeeded or not, but the time and the world demands such movements. More than anything else, the Literature demands such movements.
My Take On The Movement....
Although the movement existed in the settings of the late past era, the movement intended to break the rust-covered locks of the Contemporary Bengali Literature. The rust-covered locks were never even touched by those so called veteran writers with the likes of Sunil Gangopadhyay and all. Instead the man, Sunil Gangopadhyay, always supported "fame and ornamentation".
Sir you will always be loved and respected by me for your words but never for your "works".
Coming back to the Movement, Yes it inspires me...
It damn inspires me to take on the flight of imagination with Realism as its base...
Till 2015 end, I was someone who was pretty much occupied with the ornamented literature with the likes of the Elizabethan Poetry but my beliefs and ethics got reversed from the day when the film "Meghe Dhaka Tara" by Kamaleshwar got screened before me.The movie gave a huge setback to the thoughts and bunch of ethics that I used to possess. Although the film was no were connected to the Hungryialist Movement ,yet it talked of an art which was beyond my knowledge and portrayed an artist who became a Legend to me.
Yes, Rwitik Ghatak... he is.
The man who was the forerunner of thoughts which diminished the burjoey culture.He talked of the realism. He talked of sense. For I belong to a generation which finds craziness in the works of Ray, I was alone standing aside the beloved works of Ghatak.
Later when I witnessed the character of a Hungryialist Poet in the film Baishey Shrabon acted by Gautam Ghose, I came to know about the Hungry Generation properly. The film portrayed the character to an extent which made the viewers of this generation know about the feelings behind a poet who revolts against the socio-cultural ethics which prevailed for a century or two.Then being moved by the Movement's Background and intent it attracted me to the fullest. The more I went through the backdrops and events of the movement, the greater it attracted me towards the world of realism.It doesn't matter whether the Movement succeeded or not, but the time and the world demands such movements. More than anything else, the Literature demands such movements.
My Take On The Movement....
Although the movement existed in the settings of the late past era, the movement intended to break the rust-covered locks of the Contemporary Bengali Literature. The rust-covered locks were never even touched by those so called veteran writers with the likes of Sunil Gangopadhyay and all. Instead the man, Sunil Gangopadhyay, always supported "fame and ornamentation".
Sir you will always be loved and respected by me for your words but never for your "works".
Coming back to the Movement, Yes it inspires me...
It damn inspires me to take on the flight of imagination with Realism as its base...
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