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Nilotpal Roy

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in Kolkata, India
June 19

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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
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Nilotpal Roy To me, this phrase has no meaning at all. It never happened to me. I write only when I feel like writing. Writing is a spontaneous act; and you can ne…moreTo me, this phrase has no meaning at all. It never happened to me. I write only when I feel like writing. Writing is a spontaneous act; and you can never initiate it forcibly. You must be self-taught before you try to write. Writer's block happens only to inferior writers, who are like those kids, that go to sit for the exam without even knowing the syllabus. You need to realize that here quality matters; quantity is insignificant. Writing is not trading, and literature is not commodity.(less)
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কালিঝুলি

(রচনাকাল : ২৫-২৮ মে, ২০১৫)

"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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