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'''''Kallol''''' ({{langx|bn|কল্লোল}}) refers to one of the most influential literary movements in [[Bengali literature]], which can be placed approximately between 1923 and 1935.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}} The name ''Kallol'' of the ''Kallol group'' derives from a magazine of the same name (which translates as 'the sound of waves' in [[Bengali language|Bengali]]{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}). ''Kallol'' was the main mouthpiece for a group of young writers starting their careers around that time including [[Premendra Mitra]], [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]], and [[Buddhadeb Basu]]. A number of other magazines that followed ''Kallol'' can also be placed as part of the general movement. These include ''Uttara'' (1925), ''Pragati'' (1926), ''Kalikolom'' (1926), and ''Purbasha'' (1932).<ref name="Ghosh1990p230">{{cite book |last=Ghosh |first=Tapobrata |chapter=Literature and Literary Life in Calcutta: The Age of Rabindranath |year=1990 |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Sukanta |editor-link=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta: The Living City |volume=II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=230 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
In 1921, [[Gokulchandra Nag]], [[Dineshranjan Das]], Sunita Debi, and Manindralal Basu set up the "Four Arts Club" at Hazra Road in [[Kolkata]] to discuss and practice literature, painting, music, and drama. The four members published an anthology of short stories in 1922 named ''Jhorer Dola'' ({{lit|The Sway of the Storm}}).<ref>{{cite book |last=Ghosh |first=Tapobrata |chapter=Literature and Literary Life in Calcutta: The Age of Rabindranath |year=1990 |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Sukanta |editor-link=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta: The Living City |volume=II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=229–230 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}</ref><br />
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The Four Arts Club did not last, but Dineshranjan Das and Gokulchandra Nag established a magazine and a literary circle in 1923, which they named ''Kallol''. The regular ''[[Adda (South Asian)|adda]]'', or literary discussion, would be held at Dineshranjan's house at Patuatola Lane, Kolkata.<ref name="Ghosh1990p230" /> The magazine folded in 1935.<ref>{{cite web | title=Avant-garde and modernist magazines | website=Monoskop | date=15 August 2014 | url=https://monoskop.org/Avant-garde_and_modernist_magazines | access-date=3 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Bulson | first=Eric | title=Little Magazine, World Form| publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231542326 |year=2016|location=New York | doi=10.7312/columbia/9780231179768.003.0002 | page=}}</ref><br />
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==Influence==<br />
The ''Kallol'' circle was perhaps the first conscious literary movement to embrace [[modernism]] in [[Bengali literature]]. However, the general literary atmosphere was not entirely receptive of such a radical break from the critically and popularly acclaimed [[humanism]] of Tagore.<ref name="Ghosh1990p230" /> Another major literary establishment of the day, ''[[Shanibarer Chithi]],'' began a famous [[literary feud]] with the young ''Kallol'' members which lasted for years. Tagore himself joined the debate and published an essay in ''Kallol'' where he mentioned that he appreciated the literary effort, but found that the demand for realistic literature was just "the flaunting of poverty" combined with the "unrestraint of lust".<ref name="Ghosh1990p230" /> He described the literary squabbles of the day in ''Shesher Kabita'', where the protagonist Amit Ray is a modernist who abhors Tagore's humanism but espouses it later. The ''Kallol'' members, on the other hand, heavily influenced by [[Sigmund Freud]] and [[Karl Marx]], did not deny that they loathed an idealist's version of a "higher" individual.<ref name="Ghosh1990p230" /> The discussions of the ''Kallol'' circle provided ideas for many of the progressive writers of the age.<ref>{{cite book |last=Ray |first=Pratap Kumar |chapter=The Calcutta Adda |year=1990 |editor-last=Chaudhuri |editor-first=Sukanta |editor-link=Sukanta Chaudhuri |title=Calcutta: The Living City |volume=II: The Present and Future |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=248 |isbn=978-0-19-563697-0}}</ref><br />
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Perhaps, one of the greatest achievements of the ''Kallol'' group was in establishing a new generation of writers and thinkers in [[Bengal]].{{According to whom|date=April 2019}} When writing for ''Kallol'', [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]] was only twenty-five, [[Premendra Mitra]] under twenty, and [[Buddhadeb Basu]] fifteen.<ref name="Ghosh1990p230" /> Nazrul would establish a rebellious streak in Bengali poetry, Mitra, a [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhovian]] grasp of the short story and Basu would inspire a generation of poets with his little magazine group ''Kabita''.<br />
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