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{{Infobox writer<br />
|image = Basudeb Dasgupta Hungryalist.jpg<br />
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| alt = Image of Basudeb Dasgupta, a Bengali poet <br />
| caption = Basudeb Dasgupta in Ashoknagar<br />
| name = Basudeb Dasgupta<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|12|31|df=y}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2005|8|31|1938|12|31|df=y}}<br />
|spouse = Indira Dasgupta<br />
| children = Amritakana Majumdar<br />
| occupation = [[Novelist]], [[Short Story]] Writer and School-teacher<br />
| movement = [[Hungry generation]]<br />
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'''Basudeb Dasgupta'''<ref>http://www.kaurab.com/english/bengali_poetry/Hungry-Generation/</ref> (31 December 1938&nbsp;– 31 August 2005), an Indian novelist and short-story writer associated with the [[Hungry generation]] movement in [[Bengali literature]]. He is considered as one of the most significant [[avant-garde]] and controversial figures in the history of Bengali literature.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chowdhury|first=Maitreyee B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xrl9DwAAQBAJ&q=Basudeb+Dasgupta&pg=PT25|title=The Hungryalists: The Poets Who Sparked a Revolution|date=2018-12-30|publisher=Penguin Random House India Private Limited|isbn=978-93-5305-375-8|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
His family came to India as refugees following the partition of Bengal in 1947. He graduated with an honours in Bengali literature from the [[Scottish Church College]] in 1961, which he followed with a degree in education. Between 1965 and till his retirement in 1999, he taught in a school.<br />
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==Writings==<br />
Basudeb's major contribution to Bengali literature spanned from the early 1960s to mid 80's. His distinct styled short stories of that span include ''Randhanshala'' (1963), ''Ratanpur'' (1964), ''Basantoutsav'' (1964), ''Riputarito'' (1965), ''Bamanrahasya'' (1965), ''Abhiramer Chalaphera'' (1967), ''Leni Bruce O Gopal Bhandke'' (1968), ''Debotader Koyekminit'' (1971), ''Dr. Wanger Gopan Sanket'' (1972), ''Baba'' (1975) and ''Durbin'' (1983).<br />
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His only collection of short-stories ''Randhanshala'' was first published in 1965 which is considered as a Hungry-classic<ref>http://www.blogs.ibibo.com/hungryalistclassics/hungry-generation-classics{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and reprinted in 1983.<br />
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Basudeb Dasgupta published his first novel titled ''Utpat'' in 1962 in Upadruto journal and the second one ''Kheladhula''<br />
(probably the most significant one) in 1981 in Dandashuk journal.<br />
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Thereafter Basudeb wrote a few short stories such as ''Bondi Bastabata'' (1986), ''Mrityuguha Thekey'' (in two installments in 1986 and 1987), ''Shesh Praharer Abhijan'' (1987), ''Eso'' (1990) and ''Mouno Nagarir Itikatha'' (in two installments in 1995 and 1996), but he had lost the previous magical charm of his prose style and imaginative fictional world.<br />
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==Books==<br />
* ''Randhanshala'' (Short story, 1965)<br />
* ''Break Your Silence Please ''(Conversations, letters, diary entries, stray proses, 2006, Monfakira<ref>http://www.monfakira.com</ref>)<br />
* ''Kheladhula'' (Novel, 2007, Monfakira)<br />
* ''Lenny Bruce O Gopal Vand Ke'' (Short story, 2009, Open Secret)<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[Shakti Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Binoy Majumdar]]<br />
* [[Sandipan Chattopadhyay]]<br />
* [[Samir Roychoudhury]]<br />
* [[Subimal Basak]]<br />
* [[Malay Roy Choudhury]]<br />
* [[Tridib Mitra]]<br />
* [[Falguni Roy]]<br />
* [[Hungryalism]]<br />
* [[Anil Karanjai]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://hungryalistgeneration.blogspot.com/ Essays by Educationists on the Movement]<br />
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,830799,00.html TIME magazine news of the Movement]<br />
* [http://www.kaurab.com/english/bengali_poetry/Hungry-Generation Photographs of participants including Basudeb Dasgupta]<br />
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