I have no personal memory of Upendrakishore; and it’s not possible to have any because he passed away six years before my birth. The house...
I have no personal memory of Upendrakishore; and it’s not possible to have any because he passed away six years before my birth.
The house which he had built on 100 Garpar Road and the same house where he died was also the house where I was born. My childhood was spent in this house and quite a bit of my growing up years were occupied in one particular portion of the building, within which was housed the U Ray & Sons printing press.
What work was being done in that press, how it was being done, how exactly this press was different from the other such presses – I still wasn’t old enough to understand such logistics. Six years after this business had folded up I left Garpar and went to live in Bhawanipore in a completely different milieu. The only link with U Ray & Sons that remained was through a few books written by him, a few bound volumes of Sandesh, some of his own drawings and the prints of his paintings.
