I first met poet Malay Roychoudhury in 2016. It was a rainy day when he along with his wife welcomed me to their flat in Mumbai. I had been researching my book on The Hungryalists since the year before that, and the many conversations on the phone with Malay da had already acquainted me with him. Malay da was well into his eighties by the time we met, but I found him not only active but very sharp for his age. He spoke passionately about the poetry movement that he along with his elder brother Samir Roy Choudhury, Shakti Chattopadhyay and others had spearheaded.