https://harper.yugasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Subimal-Misra.jpg
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
post
page
product
Want to stay in the loop with latest bookish news and views? Subscribe to HarperBroadcast!
Subimal Misra

Subimal Misra

Subimal Misra was born in 1943 and his writing career spanned over four decades. The cliched label, ‘anti-establishment', is often applied the moment his name is mentioned. But since ‘anti-establishment' now seeks to become the establishment, he opposed that too. He was entirely a little-magazine writer, not having written a single letter outside little magazines in his career. Some say Misra brought a different genre into Bengali literature, which made his writing distinctive. From a stance of all-round opposition he said, ‘I try to think differently and yet people make an uproar about me – the two can't coexist, that can't be. If I attain instant recognition and popularity, then I would think that what I'm doing is not new.' When the way of saying becomes the subject was one of his favourite expressions, with a debt to Jean-Luc Godard, of course. He also said that he didn't believe in any prevalent one-dimensional label: Whatever is accepted as correct is what has to be examined much more. Misra passed away in February 2023. 

 

On The blog

HarperCollins presents The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories by Subimal Misra, translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy

HarperCollins presents The Earth Quakes: Late Anti-Stories by Subimal Misra, translated from the Bengali by V. Ramaswamy

Read more

18 Essential Books on Dalit History That You Must Read

18 Essential Books on Dalit History That You Must Read

Read more

Remembering Subimal Misra | Excerpts

Remembering Subimal Misra | Excerpts

Read more