Sibnarayan Ray is no more. He was 87.
In the 1960s, we used to blindly malign this outstanding Marxist. We
discovered his worth after 6 December 1992. We were taught that as he
was a Royist, he had highly probable link with the CIA.
Two other antecedents throng my mind.
Once he dumped Rabindranath's painting but two decades later he made
an excellent self-criticism and described as one of the all-time great
painters in Desh weekly.
Another article was by him on Abu Syed Ayyub who got a first class in
physics (when one or two used to get it) but had to leave science for
high power specs. He turned to philosophy and gave us many preservable
essays and collections of essays especially on poetics.
We will miss him at Jijnasa stall at Book Fair. One comment on me in
person is vivid in my memory. " Mao-er opor Statesman-e lekhata apnar.
Ta chhadmaname kyaono" ( 'Chakrigato bandha', I said as I was in OBP
then). " Besh bhalo hoyechhe", he added. This too was in book fair.
Such appreciation from whom our elders used to call, "Shibe pandit",
was rare.
At least two scholars should write on him; Amlan Dutta and Sobhanlal Dutta Gupta. SNR was among the first to focus on Marx's early writing and cautioned that
old and new Marx should not be counterposed to each other.
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