Friday, 7 October 2016

Not Correct to label Nabarun Bhattacharya as Anti-Establishment.

Bengali poet Anupam Mukhopadhyay has written that "Nabarun Bhattacharya did not have to bear the wrath of the State and the Indian Establishment as were faced by the Hungry Generation writers. His 'Herbert' and 'Kangal Malshat' did borrow the diction, mentality and form developed by the Hungries during the 1960s. Nabarun was the son of Mahashweta Devi and Bijon Bhattacharya. His family resided in the sanctum sanctorum of Bengali literature. Hungries like Malay Roychoudhury did not get that benefit. Right from the beginning Nabarun resided in atmosphere which is known in Bengali as RITWIKTANTRA ( sort of pseudo-intellectualism which is a stage actor's presentation as Bengali culture ). Nabarun knew how the develop the myth of Anti-Establishment and he has utilised the same in a clinical way in his life." 
                                        

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