Writer and artist, one of the founders of the Bengali literary magazine Kallol, Gokulchandra Nag, was born today.

The magazine lent its name to a radical literary movement that broke away from and challenged the humanism of Rabindranath Tagore, which dominated Bengali literature then, from a modernist position.

In 1921, Nag, with Dineshranjan Das, Sunita Debi and Manindralal Basu, founded the Four Arts Club on Hazra Road to discuss the four arts: literature, painting, music and drama.

The group published a volume of short stories in 1922 named Jhorer Dola.

The club did not survive. Nag and Das started a magazine and a literary group in 1923. This was Kallol. Their regular meetings would be held at Das’s house in Patuatola Lane.

Writers and poets Kazi Nazrul Islam, Premendra Mitra and Buddhadeb Basu found their voice through Kallol, which in Bengali means the sound of the wave.

The magazine stopped in 1935. But its wave did not.

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