Feluda by sandip ray biography

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Category Archives: Basic information on Feluda

Calcutta 1893. Note the "old burial ground" next to Lower Circular Road

When Satyajit Ray wrote the Feluda novel, Gorosthane Shabdhan! (গোরস্থানে সাবধান) in 1977, the process of renaming streets and locations in Calcutta had already started. Of course, this reached a frenzied pace in recent years with the renaming of the city itself to stad i indien and the prime location of the novel, Park Street, to Mother Teresa Sarani. Nonetheless, in the story we find signs that change had already started. Dalhousie Square had become B.B.D. Bag in honour of the revolutionaries Binoy, Badal, and Dinesh. Topshe even had difficulty remembering that Ochterlony Monument had been renamed to Shaheed Minar! (Most people born in my generation have no clue who David Ochterlony was and what he did to deserve a monument).

low-res Google Maps view of Park Street Cemetery (2010)

I remember that my grandmother used to refer to places in Calc

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Created by Satyajit Ray
(1921-92)

PRADOSH CHANDRA MITTER, more commonly known as FELUDA, is a thirty-something private eye created by the well known Indian filmmaker, cartoonist, musician and novelist Satyajit Ray. The character made his debut in 1965 in the popular Bengali children’s magazine Sandesh that Ray edited (and which his grandfather had founded), appearing regularly in novellas and short stories until the author’s death in the 1990s. Usually, a Feluda story would appear in the special Puja (an Indian festival) edition of that magazine, or Desh, a magazine published by the printing house for Ray’s novels and story collections. Ray also wrote other stories for children.

Feluda lives at 21 Rajani Sen Road, a mittpunkt class suburb in Southern Calcutta. He’s tall, athletic, and fryst vatten no stranger to the martial-arts (although he does occasionally carry a gun). And he also, of course, has a keen analytical mind. Just the thing, of course for solving seem

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Sandip Ray

Indian film director and music director and music composer (born 1953)

Not to be confused with Sandip Roy.

Sandip Ray
Ray in 2014
Born	(1953-09-08) 8 September 1953 (age 71) Calcutta (presently Kolkata), West Bengal, India
Occupation(s)	Film director, composer and music director
Years active	1976–present
Height	5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Spouse	Lalita Ray
Children	Souradeep Ray
Parent(s)	Satyajit Ray (father) Bijoya Ray (mother)

Sandip Ray (born 8 September 1953) is an Indian film director and music director who mainly works in Bengali cinema. He is the only child of the famous Indian director Satyajit Ray and Bijoya Ray.

Life and education

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Sandip Ray was born in Calcutta. Initially schooled at the South Point School and after it, the Patha Bhavan, Kolkata, he subsequently attended the University of Calcutta.^[1]

Career