Sukumar ray biography channels
Sukumar Ray( - )
Sukumar Ray was born on October 30, in the illustrious Raychaudhuri family of Calcutta. His father Upendrakisor was an author of children's literature, a musician, artist, and a pioneer of printing technology, the founder of the and Sons, a printing press. Sukumar grew in the enlightened environment of the Brahma Samaj and the questioning spirit of the family among whose friends were Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray, and Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Sukumar graduated with double honours in Physics and Chemistry from the Presidency College in In many ways his interests followed his father's. In he went to England to study printing technology. He did technical work of exceptional quality first in London and later in Manchester, publishing many papers in reputed journals.
Sukumar ray biography channels youtube After graduating from Kolkata's City College School, where his classmate was turned into the famous character 'Pagla Dashu' in several of his works, in , joined Presidency College now Presidency University to carry out dual degrees in Physics and Chemistry. From then on Ramsunder started living in Jashodal. If Sukumar Ray had not written anything other than the 45 rhymes of Abol Tabol, he would still be as popular an author as any in the history of Bengali literature. The Penrose Annual published two articles by Ray.(Upendrakisor had published from Calcutta some technical articles in some of the same journals.) Sukumar also developed an active and serious interest in photograpghy. He was awarded a merit prize when he was in his teens-- and in he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, only the second Indian at that time to become a Fellow.
He published several articles on photography as well. In he was in London when Rabindranath made the historic visit-- they came back together in In the same year Upendrakisor started Sandesh, a children's magazine, which proved to be seminal in the development of children's literature in Bengal.
After Upendrakisor's death in Sukumar took over as Editor of Sandesh. (Much later, in the s, Sukumar's son, Satyajit Ray, the famous filmmaker, would revive the same Sandesh, and in the process, will turn out to be another enormously popular author of children's literature-- the third in the three generations!
Sukumar ray biography channels 1 Ray's son, writer and filmmaker Satyajit, would continue the work with Sandesh in future along with Upendra Kishore's established printing enterprise which Sukumar had taken over. Meanwhile, Sukumar had also drawn acclaim as an illustrator. He started Sade-Batrish-Bhaja as the mouthpiece magazine of the club. In he went to England to study printing technology.If Sukumar Ray had not written anything other than the 45 rhymes of Abol Tabol, he would still be as popular an author as any in the history of Bengali literature. Even some eighty years after the first publication of Abol Tabol, it will be rare to find a literate Bengali who did not start his or her life by reciting these poems.
Besides Abol Tabol, his other popular works are Ha-Ja-Ba-Ra-La, Pagla Dashu, Jhalapala, Lakshamaner Shaktishel, etc.
Published March 15,
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