Upendra kishore roy chowdhury and sons
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Upendrakishore Raychoudhury The Multifaceted Print Genius
Some months ago, in an article published in PrintWeek, while talking about the development of printing presses in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in the 19th and early 20th centuries, I had mentioned U Ray & Sons without delving into the background of the company or its founder Upendrakishore Raychoudhury – Satyajit Ray’s grandfather.
Raychoudhury was a versatile genius whose legacy still carries on in West Bengal. Introducing him Satyajit Ray wrote, “Upendrakishore was a combination of scientific enquiry, artistic invention, and the best that art and literature had to offer.” He played the violin and pakhawaj and dabbled in the science of music while composing devotional songs. He indulged in photography and its science and conducted original research in printing technology. He wrote extensively for children and retold stories from epics. He painted and sketched innumerable pictures and looked into the heavens with his own telescope. For him, nationalism was a mission to be achieved through character building.
In spite of this versatility, Raychoudhury’s eminence, even in West Bengal, has mainly centred on children’s literature – storytelling and illustrations. But his co
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Roychowdhury, Upendra Kishore (1863-1915) writer of juvenile literature, musician, artist, and a pioneer of Bengali printing industry. He was born in the village Masua in mymensingh district on 10 May 1863. His early name was Kamodaranjan Roy. At his age of five, one Hari Kishore Roychowdhury, a relative of Upendra's father Kalinath Roy received him as an adopted son. He was then renamed as Upendra Kishore Roychowdhury. Upendra passed the Entrance examination in 1880 with scholarship from Mymensingh Zila School. He studied for a while at Presidency College in Calcutta but passed BA examination in 1884 from Calcutta Metropolitan Institute.
He became an expert in drawing during his school-life. His first literary work was published in the famous juvenile magazine Sakha when he was a BA student in 1883 and from then on continued his literary work. Upendra played a pioneering role in the fields of Bangla juvenile literature by creating rhymes, folktales, fairytales, mythological tales, and science fiction adding fine drawings. He started publishing a monthly juvenile magazine Sandesh under his editorship which is now-a-days the most popular juvenile magazine published from Calcutta.
Upendra Kishore started experiment on printing of halftone pictures by establishing
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Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
Bengali writer queue illustrator
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Life
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