Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury

Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri ( also in several other Latin spellings; Bengali: উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরী, Upendrakiśor Rāẏcaudhurī; born May 10, 1863 Moshua village, Bengal, † December 20, 1915 in Kolkata ) was an Indian author, editor, illustrator, composer and entrepreneur.

Life

He was born in a village in East Bengali district Mymensingh. Upendrakishore was adopted by a wealthy childless uncle and assumed the title of Raychowdhury. In the 1880s, he moved to Kolkata and joined the Brahmo Samaj, for which he composed hymns that are still sung today. Upendrakishore himself played the instruments esraj and Pakhwaj. He was in contact with leading figures in the Bengali Renaissance, including the Tagore family, of which the Rabindranath is still best known today.

Upendrakishore was one of the leading block -maker when he instituted new halftone technologies in its business and technical articles in a British specialist Scripture wrote about here. He himself began to publish books that he was first in foreign pressure. Upendrakishore Raychaudhuri sent his son Sukumar Ray to England, so that he could study at the University of Manchester printing technology. In 1913 he founded his own printing and publishing company M / s U. Roy & Sons in Kolkata, where he developed improved methods for monochrome and color printing.

His work is particularly associated with the Bengali children's literature. The illustrations for most of his books made ​​Upendrakishore itself in 1913, he was the first editor of the magazine Sandesh children, which was acquired after his death by his son Sukumar and later his grandson Satyajit Ray and still appears. Upendrakishore published versions of Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata for children, child-friendly recycled articles on scientific subjects as well as collections of folk tales. The best known of these is the 1910 resulting Tuntunir Boi - a collection of 24 animal tales, which became a classic of Bengali children's literature. In 2006, the children's opera Chincha Chancha Cooroo of Bernard Hughes to libretto by William Radice premiere, which is based on a story from the book. Upendrakishore Ray Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne Choudhuris story about the adventures of two completely untalented musician is also known by the eponymous film by Satyajit Ray.

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