Hungryalism

Meaning

1. An experimental movement in arts and literature in West Bengal, India, during the period 1961-1965, claiming that India was in the grip of sarvagrass, meaning that its culture fed on all the morsels available to it from all over the world.

Etymology / origin

The word was derived from Geoffrey Chaucer's line "In The Sowre Hungry Tyme".

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