Tridib Mitra, Date of Birth

    

Tridib Mitra

Indian writer

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1940

Profession: poet, author

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Tridib Mitra

  • Tridib Mitra (born 31 December 1940) was one of the pioneers of the Hungry generation movement in Bengali literature which changed the literary landscape of West Bengal once for all.
  • With his wife Alo Mitra he edited Hungry generation magazines The Waste Paper in English and Unmarga in Bengali.
  • He and his wife were the one who started Poetry Readings in Burning Ghats, Graveyards, Ganges river banks as well as in Country liquor joints of Kolkata.
  • He was, in fact, one of the cultural game changers during the sixties when Hungry generation literary movement arrived with full force in the Bengali cultural arena.
  • He and his wife were the one who delivered Hungry generation masks of demons, jokers, gods etc.
  • at the offices and houses of Ministers, Administrators, Newspaper Editors and other power holders of the West Bengali Establishment.
  • He was an Anti-Establishment writer.

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