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Subhadra Sen Gupta (1952-2021): A beloved children’s author is taken away by Covid-19 The acclaimed and beloved children’s author died on May 3, 2021, at the age of 68. Subhadra Sen Gupta (1952-2021). | Shyam Madhavan Sarada There are people of a certain vintage, children of the 1980s and 90s, who remember an English children’s magazine called Target. In our house, we were enthusiastic readers of Target. We didn’t get much else Indian fare. For that, there were stories and novels in Bengali. But in English we read Enid Blyton, the classics, and Tintin. Into this world, came Target like a breath of fresh air. ....
Ray 100: Satyajit Ray on his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, whom he never saw May 2, 2021 is Satyajit Ray’s 100th birth anniversary. 3 hours ago Satyajit Ray s drawings of his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and of the family house in Garpar, Calcutta. I have no personal memory of Upendrakishore; and it’s not possible to have any because he passed away six years before my birth. The house which he had built on 100 Garpar Road and the same house where he died was also the house where I was born. My childhood was spent in this house and quite a bit of my growing up years were occupied in one particular portion of the building, within which was housed the U Ray & Sons printing press. ....
Crisp tales: The beauty of Satyajit Ray’s prose lay in its lucidity× On his 100th birth anniversary, a diehard fan and translator of Satyajit Ray’s stories recalls the man and his work So, I grew up worshipping Satyajit Ray; my friends teased me mercilessly about what they called my Rayomania We arrived at his doorstep one morning without an appointment, shaking like leaves in autumn In 2008 I received a call from the then editor-in-chief of Penguin India office, suggesting that I translate Ray’s wife Bijoya’s memoirs Amader kotha (Manik & I)
“If you had different parents, you would have been different, too,” the author Lila Majumdar told her nephew, Satyajit Ray, while dedicating to him the biography she had written about his father a much-loved author of humorous verse and books for children. These words, penned almost 50 years ago, are telling. Because, for me at least, it all started with Ray’s father and grandfather. ....
How a farmers’ march in 2018 entered Anita Agnihotri’s newly translated novel in real time ‘I am walking along with hundreds of other writers in the country.’ An unemployed farm labourer with her sickle | Danish Siddiqui / Reuters I had already written a sizeable portion of The Sickle in 2018 when I found myself perturbed at visuals on the TV screen of innumerable farmers marching 180 kilometres barefoot from Nashik to Azad Maidan in Mumbai. I was able to see an underlying connection between the politics of droughts in Marathwada, the uncertain lives of migrant sugarcane labourers who are bereft of rights, the aftermath to the suicides of farmers in Vidarbha, and the march undertaken by tribal peasants. ....
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