{"id":46044,"date":"2021-04-28T10:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T14:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=46044"},"modified":"2021-04-28T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T15:46:07","slug":"pandemic-in-india-pradip-choudhuri-r-i-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2021\/04\/pandemic-in-india-pradip-choudhuri-r-i-p.html","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic in India<\/font><\/em>
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Trilingual poet of Bengal’s “Hungry Generation”
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He was perhaps one of the most reliable links that Bengal and India had to the counter-culture movements across America and Europe. His lifelong friend, French poet and collagist Bruno Sourdin called him, \u201cThe sacred fire of Bengal.\u201d \u2014 Sreemanti Sengupta, The Wire<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>

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Previously posted (March 18, 2018)<\/em> \u2014 ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIA <\/a>there was a mimeo magazine called ppHOO69 Intercontinental<\/em> 1969<\/strong>. It was edited by Pradip Choudhuri and published by Subhash Ghose, with a front cover by Alejandro Jodorowsky and a back cover by Claude P\u00e9lieu. The poems and prose were divided into two sections, one in Tamil and one in English (with some French).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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