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A black and white portrait of the novelist, Mani Shankar Mukherjee (Sankar).

Beyond Chowringhee: Remembering Mani Shankar Mukherjee – Sankar – the man who gave voice to a working city

February 23, 2026 5:28 pm

The novelist Sankar, who passed away in Kolkata at the age of 92, built a literary legacy that gave voice to the city's workers, dreamers, and forgotten corners

Once considered an art dependent on new locations and unfamiliar landscapes, photography is increasingly understood as a discipline of repeated encounters, a way of seeing the ordinary anew.

The architects of modern photography: 4 thinkers – from Susan Sontag to John Berger – who taught us how to perceive

August 31, 2025 2:26 pm

World Photography Day: As emerging photographers gain recognition for their ability to capture meaning in the everyday, several books continue to guide enthusiasts and professionals alike.

Satyajit Ray and his ancestral house in Bangladesh

Satyajit Ray's ancestral home in Bangladesh and a few untold stories

July 17, 2025 9:50 am

The birth of Bangladesh was a victory of the ethno-linguistic spirit over religious dogmatism. Satyajit Ray’s films and writings upheld that spirit

Kishore Kumar gave Satyajit Ray Rs 5,000 to save Pather Panchali; his first wife lived at Ray's house for 3 years after they separated: Amit Kumar

July 16, 2025 2:40 pm

Amit Kumar talks about the relationship between his father Kishore Kumar and the director Satyajit Ray, and how both men were in awe of each other.

'Satyajit Ray taught us how to think small in scale but big in heart': Australian filmmaker Phillip Noyce

November 25, 2024 8:18 am

Australian director Phillip Noyce, who will receive the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at IFFI, Goa, talks about the influence of Satyajit Ray, why the American film industry is facing mass unemployment, and the struggle of indie filmmakers.

Satyajit Ray's 102nd birthday: The debt we owe him

May 02, 2023 3:36 pm

Sometimes through film, sometimes through books, he has shaped many young minds. Many of us develop our early social values, principles, taste for art and eye for aesthetics from Ray

NFAI gets Rs 363 crore to restore 2,200 films

May 06, 2022 3:12 am

The films chosen for the process were handpicked by language-wise committees consisting of filmmakers, documentary filmmakers, film historians, producers etc.

Book revisits each work of filmmaker Satyajit Ray

October 21, 2021 4:57 pm

Ray, regarded as one of the finest filmmakers India has ever seen, helmed classics like "Pather Panchali", "Charulata" and "Devi".

Satyajit Ray: Some books by the master filmmaker that you can read

June 24, 2021 3:04 pm

Before you dive into Netflix's Ray, here are some stories by the auteur that you can read

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How Satyajit Ray’s films throw up prescient images of viruses afflicting societies

May 01, 2021 9:15 pm

An epidemic silencing Shundi, three bottles of Dettol, contaminated holy water and other stories of viruses in Ray's films, who would have turned 100 today

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Exhibition showcases original costumes from Satyajit Ray's 1977 film Shatranj Ke Khilari

October 25, 2021 12:37 pm

Celebrating the legacy of Satyajit Ray, the exhibition titled A King’s Gambit - Chess, Costumes and a Crown, is an ode to the detailed costume design of those times

The eye of a genius: The cinematic universe of Satyajit Ray

May 24, 2020 1:35 pm

Satyajit Ray was a quintessential humanist who used the camera with empathy to tell stories. Stories that capture the beauty and severity of life in rural Bengal, decaying feudalism, the struggles and aspirations of the Bengali middle class and its conflict with dogmatic religion. His films told stories in ways that only a humanist of his stature could.