Bengali poetry

Bengali Poetry

Like the Bengali language Bengali poetry finds its lineage to Pali and other Prakrit socio-cultural traditions. In Vedic Age, Bengal (then known as Banga) was famous for its anti-Nordic exploits; and hence was almost free from all Vedic cultures. This antagonism to Vedic rituals and laws heightened to a culmination in the Buddhist and Jainist movements. However, modern Bengali owes as much to Sanskrit just as much it owes to the antagonists' culture and language. Like the society that thrived to populate the modern Bengal, Bengali language and culture appears to be a perfect amalgam of almost unanalysable elements.

Table of contents

1 Inception at the Turn of the Millennium
2 Jaideva and the Islamic Invasion
3 Epic in Vernacular : Krittibas
4 Bhakti Movement

4.1 Vaishnava Padabali

5 Islamic Literature
6 Europeans Start Business in Bengal

6.2 Shakta Padabali

7 English Rule : Cultural Shifts

7.3 Urbanisation of the Folk : Tappa

8 A Questionable Bengal Renaissnace
9 New Experiments in Bengali Poetry : Michael Madhusudan Dutt
10 Rabindranath : Birth of Poetry
11 Reactions to Rabindranath

11.4 Kallol - Kavita - Parichay : Age of Little Magazines

11.4.1 Jibanananda Das
11.4.2 Premendra Mitra
11.4.3 Buddhadeva Bose
11.4.4 Sudhindranath Datta

12 Post World War II Poets

12.5 IPTA Movement

12.5.5 Salil Choudhury

12.6 Language Movement
12.7 Age of Confusion

12.7.6 Shankha Ghosh
12.7.7 Alokeranjan Dasgupta

12.8 Krittibas Movement

12.8.8 Sunil Gangopadhyay
12.8.9 Dipak Majumdar
12.8.10 Shakti Chattopadhyay
12.8.11 Utpal Kumar Basu
12.8.12 Benoy Majumdar

12.9 Hungry Generation

13 Sixties and Seventies : Youthful Dreams

13.10 Bhaskar Chakrabarty
13.11 Mridul Dasgupta
13.12 Tushar Roy
13.13 Tushar Choudhury
13.14 Ananya Roy
13.15 Ranajit Das
13.16 Joy Goswami

14 Eighties and Nineties : Frustrated Youth

14.17 Samyabrata joardar
14.18 Mandakranta Sen
14.19 Aveek Bandyopadhyay
14.20 Dipankar Bagchi

Dipankar Bagchi , a major poet at the turn of the Millennium, was born on the 23 of October, 1968 in Calcutta (now Kolkata). First child of a distinguished cinematographer, Dipankar started his career in poetry at a much older age. Thrown in a dilemma after his father's untimely death, he chose Poetry over a straight academic or bureaucratic career. In 2000 he ultimately got his first book, Saranga, published.