Subimal Basak, (সুবিমল বসাক) one of the most original fiction writers among the Hungryalists (the group is known as Hungry Generation in English, Kshudhito Projanma in Bengali and Bhookhi Peedhi in Hindi in India) (হাংরি আন্দোলন), hails from a Bengali weavwer caste family, though his father Taraknath Basak, who came to India from Kaltabazar, Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) during partition of the country, chose the job of a gold bullion broker.

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  • Subimal Basak, (সুবিমল বসাক) one of the most original fiction writers among the Hungryalists (the group is known as Hungry Generation in English, Kshudhito Projanma in Bengali and Bhookhi Peedhi in Hindi in India) (হাংরি আন্দোলন), hails from a Bengali weavwer caste family, though his father Taraknath Basak, who came to India from Kaltabazar, Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) during partition of the country, chose the job of a gold bullion broker. Gold bullion business attracted Taraknath to gambling, resulting into insolvency and eventually, suicide. Taraknath drank 750ml nitric acid. With Taraknath's suicide the family shifted to Lodipur, a notorious lower caste ghetto in Patna, Bihar. Being the eldest son, Subimal Basak did his graduation while working as a bike mechanic, bartender, poster sticker, press-compositor, proof reader, auto spares salesman, stenographer, election campaigner, primary school teacher, social welfare worker, clerk etc. , and raised his three brothers and a sister Subimal Basak was born in Patna on 15 December 1939. His mother, Madhumalati, also belonged to weaver caste.
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  • Subimal Basak, (সুবিমল বসাক) one of the most original fiction writers among the Hungryalists (the group is known as Hungry Generation in English, Kshudhito Projanma in Bengali and Bhookhi Peedhi in Hindi in India) (হাংরি আন্দোলন), hails from a Bengali weavwer caste family, though his father Taraknath Basak, who came to India from Kaltabazar, Dhaka (now in Bangladesh) during partition of the country, chose the job of a gold bullion broker.
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  • Subimal Basak
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