SATYAJIT, HIS FAMILY AND RABINDRANATH:AN ENDURING RELATION

摘要

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992) is known throughout the world as a film-maker but he had also made major contributions in the fields of literature, music, art and printing, as had his father Sukumar and grandfather Upendrakisor before him. These family connections brought him close to Tagore and some of his ideas, though he was only 20 when Rabindranath passed away. It is all the more relevant for the journal Science and Culture because the activities of all three spanned the worlds of science, technology and culture. In an article, Satyajit had referred to "a relation with Rabindranath spanning three generations". Punyalata Chakrabarti, in her memoir Chhelebelar Dinguli (1958), and Lila Majumdar, in her biography Upendrakisor (1963) had referred to the close relations between Satyajit's grandfather Upendrakisor and Rabindranath. But the direct impact of his lineage has clearly been discussed only in Chandak Sengupta's book The Rays before Satyajit : Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India (2016).