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Along with his wife, Alo Mitra, he edited
Hungry generation magazines The Waste Paper (in English) and Unmarga (in Bengali). Mitra and his wife started poetry readings in burning ghats, graveyards, river banks, and country liquor joints of
Kolkata.[4] They also delivered Hungry generation masks of demons, jokers and gods to the offices and houses of ministers, administrators, newspaper editors and other bureaucrats of the
West Bengali establishment.[5]