Malay Roy Choudhury(1939-2023)
- Writer
Malay Roy Choudhury was born on born 29 October 1939 in Patna, Bihar, India, into the Sabarna Roy Choudhury clan, which owned the villages that became Kolkata. He grew up in Patna's Imlitala ghetto, which was mainly inhabited by Dalit Hindus and Shia Muslims. His father, Ranjit (1909-1991) was a photographer in Patna; his mother, Amita (1916-1982), was from a progressive family of the 19th-century Bengali renaissance. His grandfather, Laksmikanta Roy Choudhury, was a photographer in Kolkata who had been trained by Rudyard Kipling's father, the curator of the Lahore Museum. Malay is a Bengali poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s.