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Satyajit Ray

From Genius to Divinity

MJ Akbar

Satyajit Ray never touched alcohol, and listened to a sonata by Beethoven on his turntable gramophone at breakfast. What else could possibly be required for the biodata of a Calcutta god?

Ray, Forever

Ray is forever because he validated higher culture

Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): Rays of Light

Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee showed what it is to be a man in modern India

Soumitra Chatterjee (1935-2020): A Global Humanist

From his debut as an adult Apu, Soumitra Chatterjee taught generations of Bengalis, especially the men, how to be at home in the world

Basanti’s Dream

Reading as an act of emancipation in the early Indian novel

Auteur’s Spaceship

Satyajit Ray and science fiction

Manmatha Nath Dutt—Sanskrit and English

Had Manmatha Nath Dutt studied in Oriental Seminary, Rabindranath Tagore would have known him personally, as a co-pupil

Manmatha Nath Dutta: The Zamindar

On the road to uncover a name that haunts

Scotch Whimsy

Of bagpipes and Indian popular culture

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