Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (1863–1915) was a famous Bengali
writer, painter, violinist, composer, technologist and entrepreneur.
He was born on 10 May 1863 in a little village called Moshua in
Mymensingh District in Bengal, now in Bangladesh. He spent most
of his adult life in Kolkata, where he died on 20 December 1915,
aged only fifty-two. He was the father of the well-known writer
Sukumar Ray and grandfather of the renowned filmmaker Satyajit
Ray. As a writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury is best known
for his retelling of epics and folklore; as a printer he pioneered the
art of engraving and colour printing in India at the time when both
were also being first tried in the West.
