Sukumar Ray

Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) was a prolific Indian writer, poet and playwright. He was one of the first writers of nonsense verse in Bengali, for children. Son of children's fiction writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Sukumar graduated with honors in physics and chemistry from Presidency College, Calcutta (now Kolkata), and trained in photography and printing technology at the London County Council School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography, and Manchester School of Technology in England. He...See more

Sukumar Ray (1887-1923) was a prolific Indian writer, poet and playwright. He was one of the first writers of nonsense verse in Bengali, for children. Son of children's fiction writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Sukumar graduated with honors in physics and chemistry from Presidency College, Calcutta (now Kolkata), and trained in photography and printing technology at the London County Council School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography, and Manchester School of Technology in England. He developed new methods of halftone block-making, and was also elected Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He is the father of internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. After Upendrakishore's death in 1915, Sukumar Ray assumed the editorship of children's magazine Sandesh started by his father, and remained editor until his own untimely death. See less