cover of episode India's Beats: The Hungry Generation

India's Beats: The Hungry Generation

2015/1/13
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The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2015

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Allen Ginsberg arrived in early 1960s Calcutta to discover a collective of angry young poets whose anti-establishment antics were uncannily reminiscent of his own past. This is the story of the so-called Hungry Generation - born in the slums, but highly educated and primed for a revolution in both literature and society. Through their verse, they broke strict rules of Bengali poetry as well as social taboos.