Book description
It is unusual to come across a life so rich in varied experiences as
the one that Bijoya Ray, wife and constant companion to the renowned
film-maker Satyajit Ray, has lived. Despite being closely related,
Satyajit-'Manik' to his friends and family-and Bijoya fell in love and
embarked on a life together years before Ray's groundbreaking film
Pather Panchali was made, and their long, happy married life lasted
right until Ray's death in 1992. Bijoya Ray never felt the urge to write
her memoirs, but was finally persuaded to pick up the pen when she was
well into her eighties. Manik and I brims over with hitherto unknown
stories of her life with Satyajit Ray, told in candid, vivid detail.
