India affords to assist Bangladesh restore Satyajit Rays dwelling

In an announcement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) reminded the interim authorities of the long-lasting standing of the Rays within the “shared cultural historical past” of the subcontinent. 

“We be aware with profound remorse that the ancestral property of famous filmmaker and litterateur Satyajit Ray in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, belonging to his grandfather and eminent litterateur, Upendra Kishor Ray Chowdhury, is being demolished,” the MEA assertion mentioned.

“Given the constructing’s landmark standing, symbolising Bangla cultural renaissance, it could be preferable to rethink the demolition and look at choices for its restore and reconstruction as a museum of literature and an emblem of the shared tradition of India and Bangladesh,” the MEA mentioned, providing to cooperate with the Bangladesh authorities for the aim.

The property, presently owned by the Government of Bangladesh, is in a state of disrepair. 

Earlier, media reviews from Bangladesh mentioned the ancestral home of the Rays, who hailed from Mymensingh in pre-1947 East Bengal, was being demolished to make approach for a brand new construction. The property the place Ray’s grandfather, the well-known author and writer Upendrakishore Roychoudhury, had lived was taken over by the Government of Pakistan in 1947 and subsequently served as a centre for kids’s training — Mymensingh Shishu Academy.