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Nilotpal Roy

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Born

in Kolkata, India

June 19

Website

https://nilotpalroy.com

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Genre

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Magha, Bharavi, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Sajani Kanta Das, Kama ...more

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Nilotpal Roy (born 19th June 1978) is an Indian writer, thinker, literary critic, and commentator on culture. He is a bi-lingual novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. He writes with equal flair in two languages --- in English, and in his vernacular Bengali. So far, he is best known for his bold, maverick, and unforeseen styles of writing, as well as for his unconventional ways of thinking. As the immense magnitude of his erudite brain as well as his ganglionic pen ranges from ‘samizdat’ via ‘tamizdat’ to ‘magnitizdat’, since ‘blue blouse’ through ‘aleatoricism’ unto ‘degree zero’; he offers with effortless ease, a sojourn to cerebral literature.

He claims himself to be a ‘counter-intellectual’, because he feels that i Nilotpal Roy (born 19th June 1978) is an Indian writer, thinker, literary critic, and commentator on culture. He is a bi-lingual novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. He writes with equal flair in two languages --- in English, and in his vernacular Bengali. So far, he is best known for his bold, maverick, and unforeseen styles of writing, as well as for his unconventional ways of thinking. As the immense magnitude of his erudite brain as well as his ganglionic pen ranges from ‘samizdat’ via ‘tamizdat’ to ‘magnitizdat’, since ‘blue blouse’ through ‘aleatoricism’ unto ‘degree zero’; he offers with effortless ease, a sojourn to cerebral literature.

He claims himself to be a ‘counter-intellectual’, because he feels that it is worse to be a ‘refined mediocre’ than being a ‘crude mediocre’, and prefers to be a ‘counter-intellectual’ to a ‘pseudo-intellectual’. He never calls himself an ‘author’ as he rather prefers the term ‘penman’ which is his own coinage. According to this exceptionally experimental penman, the true yardsticks of an exceptional thinker’s and/or writer’s extraordinaire should be --- Magha’s ‘versatility of inventiveness’, Joyce’s ‘fecundity of thought’, Borges’ ‘fastidiousness of analyticity’, and Kamal Kumar’s ‘infinitude of erudition’ --- all these assembled together.

He was born and brought up in north Calcutta, West Bengal, India, and presently lives in Dum Dum with his wife.

Main interests : Indian mythology, Sanskrit literature, Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Absurdism, Postmodernist experimental prose and poetry, Modernist experimental prose and poetry, Avant-garde theatre, Literary theory, Literary criticism, European philosophy, Psychoanalytic literary criticism, Psychological realism in literature, Experimental prose in Bengali literature, Bengali little magazine movement, History of primitive Kolkata, Bengali folklores (songs, riddles, proverbs & tales), Bengali stage theatre, Experimental film. ...more

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"সহসা কোনো দেশ অন্ধ হয়ে যায় না। প্রথমে আসে ক্ষীণ দৃষ্টি, পরে দৃষ্টিহীনতা। তারপরে অন্ধত্ব। এরপরে জন্মান্ধরা। তাদের ইস্কুলে অন্ধ শিক্ষকরা কালো চক দিয়ে ব্ল্যাকবোর্ডের ওপরে কী লেখে? কেন লেখে?"[নবারুণ ভট্টাচার্য]

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