SATYAJIT RAY: THE TEACHER

摘要

2021 marks Satyajit Ray's (1921-1992) birth centenary. Ray was unarguably among the most creative intellectuals born in our country in the twentieth century. He was a graphic artist, film director, musician, author of science fiction and detective stories, film society organizer, journal editor, polemicist, and much else. In the short span of this essay, I want to touch on a few significant aspects of Ray's life and career concluding with his role as a pedagogue of the cinema. This aspect of Ray has not been explicitly discussed even though it is on prominent display in his voluminous writing on film. I hope that Ray's birth centenary will be an opportunity to present to the reading public similar aspects of his life and works.