![]() ![]() He was moved by the novel as he could relate to the character of Apu. Ray then read it thoroughly and illustrated the cover for the Signet Press edition. ![]() When Ray said no, Bandyopadhyay told him, “It is blasphemy that you have not read it.” Bandopadhyay had asked Ray whether he had read the novel. Ray’s son, filmmaker Sandip Ray, recalled the encounter. The publishers had commissioned Ray to illustrate an abridged, children’s version of the novel Pather Panchali, called Aam, Antir, Bhepu (Mango, Seed and Horn). The novelist had taken up a part-time job as an editor at Signet Press, a publishing house, in the late 1940s. Keymer in Kolkata that Satyajit Ray ran into Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. It was while working at advertising firm D.J. ![]()
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