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A portrait of Satyajit Ray, chin resting on his hand, beside a gold Oscar statuette and a strip of film, with his name in Hindi and English and the years 1921–1992, on an ₹11 stamp.
Satyajit Ray
India Post issued two stamps on 11 January 1994 in memory of Satyajit Ray (1921–1992), ₹6 and ₹11, printed side by side as a pair. This one honours the man and his last great award. Ray began as a commercial artist and turned to film after meeting the French director Jean Renoir and seeing Bicycle Thieves in London. He also wrote fiction, composed and drew. In 1992 he received an Honorary Academy Award, presented by Audrey Hepburn by video link 24 days before his death on 23 April, and India’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna. Its companion stamp shows a scene from his first film. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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