Critics compare without reading both side by side

Most of the critics who talk about the influence of Beat generation on the Hungry generation poets of Bengal have not read the works of Malay Roychoudhury, Subhas Ghosh, Pradip Choudhuri, Subimal Basak, Subo Acharya, Saileswar Ghose and others. Those who write in English are completely Hungry-illiterate and even then they compare the Hungry generation with the Beat poets and writers. Most of the Hungry generation works have not been translated in English. In that case, how come they compare the Beats with the Hungries ?
                                         
                        Pradip Choudhuri on right. Arun Banik on left.
                                            Arun Banik was killed by political goons. 
                                                                        

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