Exhibition
The brilliant Ray family that dazzled India and the world
To understand them in the modern context
‘To bring youa story, in full glory, of Bengals’ three greatest knights
Upendra Kishore, Sukumar, Satyajit, U Ray & Sons, three Rays of light
Of Tuntuni, Raja and the Tiger and whimsical rhymes from Abol Tabol
Not the ABC of reason but the nonsense alphabets of Hojoborol
Song of the Road Pather Panchali , Jalsaghar the Music Room
Caring love of fellow man, to redeem today’s doom & gloom’
This exhibition will re-live the literature, music and art of the Ray family across three generations, that created children’s chronicles, nonsense rhymes and illustrations, detective stories, surreal music and the most wonderful films ever to come out of the sub-continent.
Foreword
Overwhelmimg Theme Childrens stories, literature
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Contents
Why this exhibition?
To trace the line of creativity from Upendrakishore, Sukumar to Satyajit
What links them? Children,Humour human condition
How do they differ?
Excerpts from Satyajit Ray talking about his father, grandfather, and himself
Their separate times : How they evolved with the times
History of Ray bari
Geneology
Life and Times
His life and times
His childhood
Life in Kolkata
Later life
Birthplaces of sons
Genres of creativity they embraced
Brahmo Samaj – the Bengali and Indian milieu
Other family members
Upendrakishore
Section Two
Tuntuni stories
With translations
Section Three
Sandesh and children’s periodicals
Illustrations and translations
Section Four
Upendrakishore and Music for Brahmosamaj
Violin playing, musical books
Section Five
Upendrakishore & Printing, papers discoveries of half tone printing
Role of his pioneering work in Indian publications
His illustrations
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Sukumar Roy
Biography
Section seven
His inspirations
English nonsense writers
Works of Edward Lear
Works of Lewis Carroll
section Eight
Sukumar’s Abol Tabol, Khai Khai, HJBRL
Translations
Illustrations of nonsense rhymes and absurd animals
Section nine
Sukumar’s HJBRL
Selected translations
Section Ten & Eleven
Sukumar’s Plays & other poems
Other essays
Translations
Section Twelve
Satyajit Ray
Early life
Late life
Section Fourteen
Tagore & Ray
Inspirations for Art – Nandalal Bose
His Art and role as illustrator
Section Fifteen
Inspiration for his films- Kurosawa
section sixteen
Pather panchali the Book by Bibhuti Bhusan Bandopadhyay
Story, making of the film
Music by Ravishankar, the cast
section Seventeen
Early films including Apu trilogy
Section Eighteen
Ray & Tagore
Section nineteen
Ray & Music
Section Twenty
Ray’s art
Ray & photography
Section Twenty-one ( may need an additional chapter)
Ray as writer
Feluda stories, Shonku stories
Section twenty-two
Ray as writer
Other books & essays
Section Twenty-three
The Ray family and contribution to the world
A summary