Satyajit Ray has been the subject of many books. However, hardly any have carried the ‘voice’ of Sandip Ray, talking as extensively on his illustrious father. This is what sets Ray on Ray: A Son Remembers apart. In intimate conversations with Sandip Ray, the author talks about the various aspects of the life and films of Satyajit Ray. These range from the rebirth of Sandesh and the birth of Professor Shanku and Feluda, to Ray’s penchant for wordplay and nonsense rhymes, his passion for acrostics, Categories, Scrabble and Boggle, his relationships with actors and directors, and his experiments with Indian and Western classical and fusion music. Ray on Ray is as much a son’s tribute to his father, a poignant look at an incredible father–son relationship as it is the author’s ode to an icon.
Ashoke Nag has been a journalist for close to forty years. He branched out into freelance journalism from around 1988, contributing to various publications including The Telegraph, The Statesman, the New Delhi edition of The Times of India, The Illustrated Weekly, Discover India, The Independent and the famed Hollywood movie journal, Variety. In June 1993, he joined the Calcutta edition of The Economic Times. After his superannuation at ET in August 2014, he continued writing for Discover India, the Indian edition of New York?s Maxim magazine, the Calcutta edition of The Times of India before turning
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