Dhaka: Ancestral home of legendary filmmaker and Academy Award winner Satyajit Ray in Bangladesh is being demoslished. The ancestral home of Ray’s grandfather and eminent litterateur Upendrakishor Ray Chaowdhary will now make its way for a new semi-concrete structure. For the unversed, the filmmaker’s house was being used as the Mymensingh Shishu Academy. However, Indian government has stepped in in and volunteered to help in repair and reconstruction of the property into a “museum of literature”.
“It has been reported that the ancestral house of Satyajit Ray’s grandfather, the renowned literary editor Upendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury, in Mymensingh city of Bangladesh, which is associated with their memory, is being demolished. The demolition work has already begun, it was reported. This news is very sad. The Roy family is one of the guardians and bearers of Bengali culture. Upendra Kishore is a pillar of Bengali renaissance. Therefore, I think that this house is inextricably linked with the cultural history of Bengal. I will appeal to the Bangladesh government and all the well-meaning people of that country to protect this heritage house. The Indian government should look into the matter”, wrote West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee on X.
The MEA said: “We note with profound regret that the ancestral property of noted filmmaker and litterateur Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, belonging to his grandfather and eminent litterateur, Upendra Kishor Ray Chowdhury, is being demolished. The property, presently owned by the Government of Bangladesh, is in a state of disrepair.”
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