Samir Roychoudhury
Indian writer and poet (1933-2016) · India · On the map · Writers · Died at 82
Samir Roychowdhury, one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation, was born at Panihati, West Bengal, in a family of artists, sculptors, photographers, and musicians.
Samir Roychoudhury is read about 5 times a day, in 7 languages.
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About this person
His grandfather Lakshminarayan, doyen of the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan of Uttarpara, had learned drawing and bromide-paper photography from John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, who was Curator at the Lahore Museum, and thereafter established the first mobile photography-cum-painting company in India in the mid-1880s. The company was later taken over by Samir's father Ranjit (1909-1991). Samir's mother Amita (1916-1982) was from a progressive family of 19th-century Bengal renaissance.
