Satyajit Ray's first ambition was, doubtless, to be a graphic designer. His grandfather, Upendra Kishore Ray Chaudhuri had a press and process studio, and was deeply interested in good printing, illustration and reproduction. He also wrote stories for children based on folk tales and myths and illustrated them; and published a very popular children's magazine, "Sandesh". According to Satyajit he was a very versatile person, a writer, painter, musician, photographer and bolckmaker, with serious interests in science and astronomy. Satyajit's father, Sukumar Ray, was also a man of many talents. He wrote well and his humorous skits and nonsense verse, highly imaginative and original, are among the landmarks of modern Bengali literature. He also went to England to study printing technology, particularly advanced techniques in half-tone reproduction. He too was a caricaturist and illustrator who enriched his published texts with zany ink drawings. So the interest ran in the family.
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