1. Samir Roychoudhury was later taken over by Samir's father Ranjit.
12 Facts About Samir Roychoudhury
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Samir Roychoudhury's mother Amita Banerjee came from a family where her father Dr Kishori Mohan Bandyopadhyay was a fellow researcher and an assistant of Ronald Ross, Nobel Prize winner for discovering the causes of malaria.
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Right from childhood, Samir Roychoudhury was thus in the company of people who could groom him for his later literary achievements.
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Samir Roychoudhury studied at City College, Calcutta, where he found as his classmates, Dipak Majumdar, Sunil Gangopadhyay and Ananda Bagchi, who were preparing to start an exclusive poetry magazine, named Krittibas.
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Samir Roychoudhury left the group and took up a job of marine fisheries expert in a ship which most of the time was in the Arabian Sea, an experience which was later beneficial for Hungryalism inputs.
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From marine Samir Roychoudhury shifted to inland fisheries, which gave him an opportunity to become a part of the poorest boatmen, fishermen and fishnet-knitters families of rural and riverine India.
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Samir Roychoudhury is still an important figure before the contemporary younger poets and thinkers.
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Samir Roychoudhury wrote several treatises on Adhunantika aspects of Indian, especially Bengali society, that have impacted post-colonial mindset, and obviously arts, literature and culture.
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Samir Roychoudhury introduced an Indianised version of postmodernism which was being called, apart from Adhunantika, Uttaradhunika, Uttar-Adhunika, Bitadhunika, Bhashabadal, Atichetana and Adhunikottarvad etc.
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Samir Roychoudhury edited, since 1990, books on Ecofeminism, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Complexity, Hybridity and The Other.
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Samir Roychoudhury edited Postmodern Bengali Poetry and Postmodern Bengali Short Stories which included writings from Bangladesh as well as entire India.
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Samir Roychoudhury changed it all; he invited poems and short stories from all strata of, not only West Bengal, but entire India and Bangladesh.