| 1921 | May 2, 1921 - Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921 in an artists' family. His grandfather Upendra Kishore Roychowdhury was a renowned writer, painter and musician. His father Sukumar Ray was the father of Bengali "nonsense" literature writing in the tradition of ...Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray was born on May 2, 1921 in an artists' family. His grandfather Upendra Kishore Roychowdhury was a renowned writer, painter and musician. His father Sukumar Ray was the father of Bengali "nonsense" literature writing in the tradition of Lewis Caroll and Edward Lear. Though Satyajit Ray had been born in an affluent family, he had never known a life of luxury as he lost his father when he was only three years old. Before long his mother had to move out ...  Show more  Show lesswww.indiatravelogue.com/face/face18.html
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| 1955 | 1955 - Pather Panchali a film by Satyajit Ray will be screened, following the Sidharth Maitra Memorial lecture by Partha Mitter and Sharmila Tagore. Pather Panchali, made in 1955, was the very first film of acclaimed Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray's career, and ...Pather Panchali a film by Satyajit Ray will be screened, following the Sidharth Maitra Memorial lecture by Partha Mitter and Sharmila Tagore. Pather Panchali, made in 1955, was the very first film of acclaimed Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray's career, and portrays the everyday life and hardships of an impoverished family in a rural Bengal village. This year, Pather Panchali was selected to headline the Cannes Classics portion of the Cannes Film Festival, to mark the fiftieth ... Show more Show lesswww.ektaonline.org/calendar/index.htm
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| 1958 | Sep 7, 1958 - about a forest family, poverty and the changing seasons. The wonder of India's "Pather Panchali" ("The Little Road") is not its heavy load of international film festival prizes, as the import moves toward an American opening. Nor is it the fact that a film hailed for poetical genius ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50D17F83D59127A93C5A91782D85F4C8585F9
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| 1959 | Dec 13, 1959 - Federation of Film Society of India -- enjoining all the film societies and clubs in the country -- is formed on December 13, 1959 with Satyajit Ray as president and Indira Gandhi as vice-president. Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar is awarded the silvermedal for music ...Federation of Film Society of India -- enjoining all the film societies and clubs in the country -- is formed on December 13, 1959 with Satyajit Ray as president and Indira Gandhi as vice-president. Satyajit Ray's Jalsaghar is awarded the silvermedal for music at the Moscow International Film Festival. Three blockbusters are released in the same week in Bombay -- KA Abbas' Char Dil Char Raahen, Devendra Goel's Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan and V Shantaram's Navrang ... Show more Show lesswww.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980529/14950594.html
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| 1967 | Feb 12, 1967 - Statistics about India have always staggered the imagination of western man. Fifty centuries of uninterrupted history and culture, the Himalayas rising above the endless Indo-Gangetic plains, a larger population than Africa and Latin America put together. Another statistic: ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/510084282.html?dids=510084282:510084282&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+12%2C+1967...Satyajit+Ray%3A...
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| 1992 | Apr 24, 1992 - By PETER B. FLINT. Other major works by India's leading director included "Distant Thunder" (1973), about a man-made 1943 famine that killed five million Bengalis, and "The Home and the World" (1984), about an approaching revolution as observed by an affluent woman from her drawing ... www.nytimes.com/1992/04/24/movies/satyajit-ray-70-cinematic-poet-dies.html?pagewanted=2
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| 1995 | Aug 20, 1995 - One of the century's greatest filmmakers also has been one of the least shown or appreciated in the West. India's Satyajit Ray, maker of masterpieces like the Apu Trilogy (1955-59), as well as "The Music Room" (1958), "Charulata" (1964), "Distant Thunder" (1973) and "The Home and the ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/21102419.html?dids=21102419:21102419&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current...SATYAJIT+RAY...A...
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| 2003 | Dec 29, 2003 - As a young man, [Satyajit Ray] was a Calcutta advertising agency art director and book illustrator whose life was transformed when he began creating drawings for the novel "Pather Panchali," an epic tale of the rural childhood and subsequent urban office-worker existence of Apu. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/517287701.html?dids=517287701:517287701&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+29%2C+2003...Satyajit+Ray's...
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| 2004 | Aug 26, 2004 - By Lata Khubchandani, India Syndicate | Thursday, 26 August , 2004, 16:33. Satyajit Ray, arguably our most talented filmmaker, contributed to Indian cinema a grace that has never yet been surpassed. His Pather Panchali was released in August 1955. This thus becomes the fiftieth year of ... sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=13553096
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| 2005 | Aug 31, 2005 - Satyajit Ray had described him 'a sort of Boswell working with a camera rather than a pen.' The master filmmaker's ace photographer Nemai Ghosh holds a treasure no film collector can dream of. He has 90000 photographs, negatives and transparencies of Ray. ... inhome.rediff.com/movies/2005/aug/31ray.htm
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