The dilapidated one-storey house in Bangladesh's Mymensingh, which several reports had identified as Satyajit Ray's ancestral ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party has criticized the Bangladesh government for allegedly demolishing Satyajit Ray's ancestral house in Dhaka, calling it an erasure of history and Bengali heritage. The ...

DHAKA, July 17, 2025 (BSS) – Bangladesh has clarified that a house in Mymensingh, reported in some media as the ancestral ...

Eminent filmmaker Satyajit Ray's ancestral home in Dhaka is being demolished by Bangladeshi authorities, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday.

খবরে প্রকাশ যে, বাংলাদেশের ময়মনসিংহ শহরে সত্যজিৎ রায়ের ঠাকুরদা, স্বয়ং স্বনামধন্য সাহিত্যিক-সম্পাদক উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরীর স্মৃতিজড়িত তাঁদের পৈতৃক বাড়িটি নাকি ভেঙে ফেলা হচ্ছে। ভাঙার কাজ শুরু ...

Elsewhere in Bangladesh, legitimate heritage structures have been lost. That reality demands vigilance, legal enforcement, and societal appreciation of our shared past ...

The house, more than a hundred years old, belonged to Ray’s grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, a pioneering figure in Bengali literature and printing.

As per reports in Bangladeshi media, the century-old structure is being torn down to make way for a new semi-concrete building that will serve as the new premises for the Mymensingh Shishu Academy.