Hungry Generation had nothing to do with Ginsberg's India visit

Some critics have written that Hungry Generation movement resulted from Ginsberg's India visit. They are just fools. The first Hungry Generation bulletin was published from Patna by Malay Roychoudhury on 1st November 1961 whereas Allen Ginsberg arrived at Calcutta in late 1962. Prior to Ginsberg's arrival at Calcutta more than thirty Hungry Generation bulletin had been published. None of Hungry Generation writers had read Beat poems or prose before Lawrence Ferlinghetti sent them to Malay Roychoudhury to his Patna address in 1964 during the Court Case. Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky visited Samir Roychoudhury at his Patna hutment at Chaibasa in late 1962. Ginsberg visited Malay Roychoudhury at Patna in  April 1963. Neither Samir nor Malay had read Ginsberg's works before his arrival. None of the Hungries against whom the Calcutta Police had filed cases of Obscenity and social disturbance had met Allen Ginsberg though all of them were in Calcutta. 

 Most of the critics confuse themselves by declaring that Sunil Gangopadhyay, the editor of 'Krittibas' was a member of Hungry Generation literary and social movement. Sunil Gangopadhyay rather made every effort to dismantle the movement. It is because of Sunil Gangopadhyay that Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Shakti Chattopadhyay and Utpalkumar Basu left the movement. 
                                                 
                             Sunil Gangopadhyay of 'Krittibas'

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