Obscenity charges : Lawrence Ferlinghetti was supported by reputed authors. Malay Roychoudhury was not.

When City Lights published Allen Ginsberg's HOWL, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was implicated in Obscenity case. In support of him writers and critics came forward and as a result therefore, the charges were dismissed and HOWL became a much read poem. It may be noted that writers and poets did not complain against HOWL.

But there is a difference between Lawrence Ferlinghetti's ordeal and Malay Roychoudhury's Obscenity trial case. Academicians, writers, newspaper barons had complained against Malay Roychoudhury's poem to the Calcutta Police as a result of which Malay Roychoudhury was arrested. While arresting Malay Roychoudhury, He was hand cuffed and a rope was tied around his waist and he was forced to walk the streets in that condition with seven murderers, dacoits and pick pockets. 

 Malay was sentenced for a month for writing the poem by Calcutta Court. This is a great difference between Beat Generation and Hungry Generation.
                                        
                                                   


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