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Satyajit Ray s centenary celebrations stalled by pandemic, informs son Sandip Ray
On the 100th birth anniversary of his legendary father, director Sandip Ray is reconciled to the fact that his 1/1 Bishop Lefroy Road residence, a place for pilgrimage for fans of arguably India s best-known moviemaker Satyajit Ray, will remain deserted. Sandip, who along with other family members had
earlier planned a year-long birth centenary which is now being postponed, told PTI he was not in favour of any zoom meet which doesn t befit such an occasion involving an icon like Ray. The ongoing pandemic and the health emergency which it has created hitting hundreds of thousands of people has forced the family to rethink plans for the celebrations as it thinks such events would be inappropriate at this time.
Satyajit Ray centenary: Professor Shonku’s world no longer exists. Can he still cast a spell?
Satyajit Ray’s eccentric super-scientist charmed generations of Bengali children, once upon a time. Today’s children may be less impressed. Dhritiman Chaterji in Professor Shonku O El Dorado (2019) | SVF
My school days in the early 1980s were enriched by Satyajit Ray’s movies and children’s stories. Ray’s Trilokeshwar Shonku, an ex-professor of Scottish Church College and an eccentric super-scientist, is perhaps one of the writer’s greatest creations.
Indrani Majumdar, who translated some of the 38 Shonku stories in
The Mystery of Munroe Island and Other Stories (2015) and