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to England to study printing & photography.
In 1911, Sukumar went to England
on a fellowship. He was 23 then.
In London he studied for a year in the London County
Council School of photoengraving & Lithography.
He then studied
Chromolithography and litho-drawing
at the
Municipal School of Technology, Manchester.
His correspondence tells us that his tutelage
under Upendra Kishore was of great help.
This was the time (1912) when
Rabindranath Tagore also went to England
with his translation of "Gitanjali" (Tagore
was to win the Nobel Prize for 'Gitanjali')
Sukumar Ray was one of the
first to welcome him there.
Sukumar wrote an article in 'QUEST'
introducing Tagore to the West.
Sukumar returned to India in October 1913 He
had passed his examinations with distinction.
Two months later he married Suprabha.
In summer of 1913, Upendra Kishore started
publishing a children's magazine called SANDESH.
Earlier he had published children's versions
of The Mahabharata and The Ramayana
and the 'Book of the Toontooni Bird'
A collection of folk tales of Bengal.
In 1914, the family shifted to
a new house at 100, Garpar Road.
His printing press was in the front and
living quarters at the back, facing south.
Sadly, he died just two years
after SANDESH was first published.
But in these two years
SANDESH had become a premium magazine.
The quality of printing in SANDESH
was unsurpassed in its time.
Sukumar took over where
his father had left SANDESH.
His first poem for SANDESH was called Khichudi (Kedgeree/mixture) later
included in his famous collection 'Abol Tabol' (The Ridiculous).
Such convoluted verse and such pictures
could only have come from Sukumar Ray..
Was a duck, porcupine (to grammar I bow
not) Became Duckupine, but how I know not.
Stork tells turtle, it's a delight...
Our Stortle shape is exactly right!
The Parrot-Head Lizard feels very silly: Must
he spurn insects, for a raw green chili?
The goat now hatches a plan to wed... Mounts
scorpion's neck... body unites with head!
The giraffe's reluctant to wander nearby
With his grasshopper wings, he longs to fly.
Says the cow, What ails the pen
That my rear belongs to a rascally hen?
See the Whalephant: The Whale wants the sea;
The Elephant says, It's the jungle for me.
The lion has no horns, that's his woe...
He pairs with a deer; And antlers grow!
SANDESH.
The standards Upendra Kishore set for Sandesh
were never lowered in Sukumar's time.
The whole family contributed (and
some contributions have become classics)
Family apart, almost every well known writer
(Including Tagore) wrote for SANDESH.
But the bulk of pictures,
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