Bibhas Roy Chowdhury

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Full Name	Bibhas Roy Chowdhury
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Aug 1, 1968(1968-08-01)
Age	56
Country	India
Birth City	Bangaon
Horoscope	Leo

Bibhas Roy Chowdhury Biography

Bibhas Roy Chowdhury is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on August 1, 1968 in Bangaon, India. Roy Chowdhury was born to refugees on 1 August 1968 in Bihutipalli in the frontier town of Bangaon within the District of North 24 Pargonas in West Bengal in India. Parents, Shyamdulal Roy Chowdhury and Bithika Roy Chowdhury who originally came from Bangladesh and were left homeless when the country was divided into Bengal and were forced to become full-time workers when they arrived in Bongaon even though they were wealthy families with a large portion of Bangladesh. Roy Chowdhury went to Bongaon High School as well as Gobardanga Hindu College. When he graduated however, he was unable to continue his studies due to extreme poverty. From the beginning of his life, he was attracted to drama, music and poetry. He studied poetry with Usaprasanna Mukhopadyay, who was a professor of Bengali literature at Gobardanga Hindu College and from the poet Subhankar Patra. In the future, Binoy Majumdar was his mentor.

The Muse India review (Issue 58 (November-December 2014) declares, “Roy Chowdhuy’s thematic trajectory touches the milestones of death thoughts that loom large, palpable nostalgia and essential poetic sadomasochism, all through ignited by a sense of Bengali-ness with a view to communicating with the readers about their genesis and probable destination. Roy Chowdhury does not emphasize on any monolithic poetic premise: instead his easeful tete-a-tete mood builds up a quick bond with the readers, and why not? He thinks the way the Bengalis think, he lends voice to the habitual Bengali Poetic thoughts. This rare excellence has characterized every piece of his writings that amuses poetry lovers”.

Rumpa Das, Associate Professor and head of the department of English in Maheshtala College in Kolkata writes (on Ink Sweat and Tears), “Reading Roy Chowdhury’s poems that smell of his thought-ridden soul – his anguished response to the holocaust of the Partition (in Bhatiyali), his painful awareness of a poet’s predicament in today’s society and refusal to conform to pre-conditioned roles (in Bibhas) or his interpretation of relationships as an intimate experience such as those of water-droplets caressing the body while bathing (as in Ashram) – all these arouse us, his readers, as it possibly did Kiriti [Sengupta], to the intense thrill of a life beyond … of a life where every moment encompasses a myriad lives, some colored as dark as pain, and some as mysterious as evening rain.”

The Fox Chase Review says, “Bibhas’s voice pulsates with an undercurrent of passion… it is melancholic yet inflected with hope… pithy in words but loaded with sensitivity… it is a reflection of the loneliness of the poet’s heart and its aches. To quote Kafka, “(his) pen is the seismograph of (his) heart.” I realized that these poems are not for idle reading. I read them once, I read them again and then again each time sinking a little deeper into their profundity, their challenging complexity, and emerged with an ‘aha’ feeling. That is the beauty of these poems… they plummet you beyond the tips into their inner core and thereby into your own deeper recesses, conversing with your sense of self.”

In the 1980s, his poems often appeared in a variety of Bengali literary magazines like Dainik Basumati, Krittibas, Kabisammelan and Desh. The first collection of his poetry, Nasta Prajanmer Vasan (Song of the degraded generation) was released in 1996 during the Kolkata book fair. He has also published books in poetry, such as Udbastu Shibirer Paakhi (1996) Shimul Vasha, Palash Vasha (1999), Jibanander Meye (2002), Chandalika Gaachh (2006), Ananta Ashram (2015). The novel that he wrote, Ashrudana, first was published in Desh on the 4th of November, 2002. His poetry have been featured in various books, including Hirak Khanda published by writer Nirendranath Chakraborty.

Bibhas Roy Chowdhury Net Worth

Bibhas Roy Chowdhury is one of the richest Poet from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bibhas Roy Chowdhury 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Bibhas Roy Chowdhury (Bengali: bibhaas raay’caudhurii ; born on August 1, 1968) is a Bengali novelist, poet and essayist. His work includes over twenty books, including five novels, as well as numerous articles in several Bengali literature magazines. He was awarded awards such as the Bangla Academy Award (Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi) in 2013. Krittibas Award (1997), and the Nirmal Acharya Gold Medal for poetry. A few of his poems were transliterated into English through the Dr. Kiriti Sengupta, a famous poet and translator as well as is published in the form of Inner Child Press (New Jersey, USA) in association with Hawakal Publishers (Kolkata) as Poem Continuous: Reincarnated Expression (2014). The poet is one of the main advisors for the Bengali literary journal, Kabita Ashram, and the founder and director of a troupe of actors named Banga Natya Charcha Kendra. He is now employed by the publishing house.

Roychowdhury pens his thoughts on life in a pithy style, in both non-metrical and metrical poetry. In his poetry his work, he frequently explores the extremes and lows of the human experience as well as the aftermath of the partition of Bengal and the struggles of a refugee’s life, the love of his own language and the suffering of his peers. The most recent collection of poetry, Jashor Roder Gaachh (Trees On either Side of Jessore Road) which is about the thinning of trees, the pollution of the environment, and destruction caused by greed and selfishness. He employs ‘the language of normal people’, but his metaphors have a profound impact on readers. The poet writes using all sorts of poetic styles, including payar, which is a metrical form that was popular in the medieval period of Bengali literature. In the beginning of his journey into poetry, his influences were the famous Bengali poets of the 1970s like Joy Goswami, Shyamal Kanti Das, Mridul Dasgupta, and Nirmal Halder.

The Ethos Literary Journal says (ELJ, Issue I, 9 June 2018), “Roy Chowdhury’s unique and powerful voice lingers long after it stops. It’s soft, warm and soulful. He writes, like he always does, either from epiphany or from peak- experience, so his every poem becomes real and living. Bibhas Roy Chowdhury creates magic reality out of the stark realities. He is the master of the craft.”

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