Atit BanglaPradip Ghosh – Sukumar Roy
Atit BanglaPradip Ghosh – Sukumar Roy

Kobita: Sukumar Roy – Abol Tabol

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Sukumar Ray FRPS (Sukumār Rāẏ; 30 October 1887 – 10 September 1923) was a Bengali writer and poet from British India. He is remembered mainly for his writings for children. He was the son of children’s story writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury and the father of Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray.

Family history

According to the history of the Ray family, one of their ancestors, Ramsunder Deo (Deb), was a native of Chakdah village in Nadia district of present-day West Bengal, India. In search of fortune he migrated to Town Sherpur, Sherpur district in East Bengal.

There he met Raja Gunichandra, the zamindar of Jashodal, at the zamindar house of Sherpur. King Gunichandra was immediately impressed by Ramsunder’s stately appearance and sharp intellect and took Ramsunder with him to his zamindari estate. He made Ramsunder his son-in-law and granted him some property in Jashodal. From then on Ramsunder started living in Jashodal. His descendants migrated from there and settled down in the village of Masua in Katiadi upazila of Kishoreganj district.