The New Age of Bengali literature

Bengali literature

Bengali literature is literary works written in Bengali language particularly from Bangladesh and the Indian provinces of West Bengal and Tripura. The history of Bengali literature traces back hundreds of years while it is impossible to separate the literary trends of the two Bengals during the...

 can be considered to be the phase (starting from the first decade of the 21st Century) when new literary works of a unique genre flowered in the experimental literature scene in West Bengal. The inception of such literary works in this period is based on the "Little Magazine Explosion". New Age Bengali Literature has its lineage in earlier movements like Hungry generation

Hungry generation

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...

 movement, Kaurab

Kaurab

Kaurab is a Bengali language literary magazine representing innovative, alternative, non-mainstream and experimental genres of Indian literature with an emphasis on poetry and poetics. In vogue for more than three decades, Kaurab continuously streams alternative genres of literature and has...

 Cult, Natun Kabita/New Poetry. Although not directly influenced by any one of these movements, New Age Bengali Literature has been collectively impacted by all of them.

Novel

In the New Age (21st Century), Arupratan Ghosh can be considered the only novelist of parallel genre for his novel Suryaheen (published in 2007) from Sheela Library publication.

Scriptures and Spiritual literature in Bengal

Bengal is known that it gave to the world so many pasttimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He appeared in Bengal. See: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India in the 16th century, believed by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism to be the full incarnation of Lord Krishna...

. So there are many scriptures which are related to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who appeared in Bengal. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is called hidden golden avatara of Krsna, Vishnu, so after His appearance golden age started. It is said to last at least 10–000 years. Among many scriptures very important one is Chaitanya Charitamrita

Chaitanya Charitamrita

The Chaitanya Charitamrita is one of the primary biographies detailing the life and teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , a Vaisnava saint and founder of the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya. It was written by Krishna Das Kaviraja , primarily in the Bengali language, but also including a great number of...

. Another great scripture is Chaitanya Bhagavata

Chaitanya Bhagavata

The Chaitanya Bhagavata is a hagiography of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , the famous Vaishnava saint, written by Vrindavana Dasa Thakura . It was the first full-length work regarding Chaitanya Mahaprabhu written in Bengali language and documents his early life and role as the founder of the Gaudiya...

. See also: Hare Krishna.