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Nov 01, 1933 Panihati, West Bengal, India Died on 22 Jun 2016 (aged 82)
Indian writer and poet
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About Samir Roychoudhury
- Samir Roychowdhury (Bengali: ???? ??????????) (1 November 1933 – 22 June 2016), one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation 1961–1965 (also known as Hungryalism or Hungrealism), was born at Panihati, West Bengal, India in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers, and musicians.
- His grandfather Lakshminarayan, doyen of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan of Uttarpara, had learned drawing and bromide-paper photography from John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, who was Curator at the Lahore Museum (now in Pakistan), and thereafter established the first mobile photography-cum-painting company in India in the mid-1880s.
- The company was later taken over by Samir's father Ranjit (1909–1991).
- Samir's mother Amita (1916–1982) was from a progressive family of 19th-century Bengal renaissance.
