Rani Ray

Ritwik Ghatak Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality. Ghatak received many awards in his career, including National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo and Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970. Rani Ray studied English at Bedford College, London and University of California. She has taught English at the University of Delhi, University of California at Santa Barbara and Institute Of English Studies in Poland. She has rendered into English a substantial volume of Bengali fiction including short stories of eminent writers like Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Joy Goswami, Suchitra Bhattacharya, Anita Agnihotri and above all Rabindranath Tagore. Her translation of Sibaji Bandyopadhyay’s mammoth, path breaking treatise Colonialism and Children’s Literature in Bengal has been recently published by Tulika Books, Delhi.