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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (, ; ___MASK80___ December ___MASK67___  ___MASK33___ ) was an English journalist , short - story writer , poet , and novelist . Bengali , also known by its endonym Bangla as officially / constitutionally spelled in Bangladesh ,, is an Indo - Aryan language spoken in South Asia . It is the national and official language of the People ' s Republic of Bangladesh , and the official language of several northeastern states of the Republic of India , including West Bengal , Tripura , Assam ( Barak Valley ) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands . With over ___MASK68___ million speakers , Bengali is the seventh most spoken native language in the world . Samir Roychowdhury ( Bengali :             ) ( ___MASK96___ November 1933  22 June 2016 ), one of the founding fathers of the Hungry Generation 1961  1965 ( also known as Hungryalism or Hungrealism ), was born at Panihati , West Bengal , India in a family of artists , sculptors , photographers , and musicians . 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 ( now in Pakistan ), 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 renaissance . Subimal Basak , (         ) is an Indian fiction writer . He is a member of the Hungry generation , with Samir Roychoudhury , Falguni Roy , Shakti Chattopadhyay and the movement ' s creator Malay Roy Choudhury . The Hungry Generation archive , and Weissner Archive with Subimal Basak Papers are held at Northwestern University ; the Howard McCord archive is held at Washington State University . Malay Roy Choudhury ( born ___MASK2___ October ___MASK5___ ) is a Bengali poet , playwright , short story writer , essayist and novelist who founded the Hungryalist movement in the 1960s . Shakti Chattopadhyay ( November ___MASK92___ , 1933 - March 23 , ___MASK31___ ) was a Bengali poet and writer . Kolkata (, also known as Calcutta , the official name until ___MASK40___ ) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal . Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River , it is the principal commercial , cultural , and educational centre of East India , while the Port of Kolkata is India ' s oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port . In 2011 , the city had population of ___MASK61___ . ___MASK83___ million , while the population of the city and its suburbs was 14 . 1 million , making it the third - most populous metropolitan area in India . In 2008 its gross domestic product ( adjusted for purchasing power parity ) was estimated to be 104 billion , which was the third highest among Indian cities , behind Mumbai and Delhi . The Hungry Generation was a literary movement in the Bengali language launched by what is known today as the Hungryalist quartet , " i . e ." Shakti Chattopadhyay , Malay Roy Choudhury , Samir Roychoudhury and Debi Roy (" alias " Haradhon Dhara ), during the 1960s in Kolkata , India . Due to their involvement in this avant garde cultural movement , the leaders lost their jobs and were jailed by the incumbent government . They challenged contemporary ideas about literature and contributed significantly to the evolution of the language and idiom used by contemporaneous artists to express their feelings in literature and painting . The Sabarna Ray Chaudhury family were the Zamindar ( superior landlords ) of the Kolkata ( earlier known as Calcutta ) area , prior to the arrival of the British . On ___MASK95___ November ___MASK41___ , they transferred , by lease , their rights over the three villages  Sutanuti , Kalikata and Gobindapur - to the East India Company . John Lockwood Kipling , C . I . E . ( ___MASK20___ July ___MASK90___  26 January 1911 ), was an English art teacher , illustrator , and museum curator who spent most of his career in British India . He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling . India , officially the Republic of India (" Bhrat Gaarjya "), is a country in South Asia . It is the seventh - largest country by area , the second - most populous country ( with over ___MASK96___ . 2 billion people ), and the most populous democracy in the world . It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south , the Arabian Sea on the southwest , and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast . It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west ; China , Nepal , and Bhutan to the northeast ; and Myanmar ( Burma ) and Bangladesh to the east . In the Indian Ocean , India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives . India ' s Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia . Its capital is New Delhi ; other metropolises include Mumbai , Kolkata , Chennai , Bangalore , Hyderabad and Ahmedabad .