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On the Stamp
Two children in tall grass, below a scarecrow with a painted pot for a head, under a wide clouded sky, with the words “Satyajit Ray 1921–1992” and “Pather Panchali” in Hindi and English, on a ₹6 stamp.
Pather Panchali
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 shows his first film. Pather Panchali (1955) adapts the 1929 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and follows the childhood of Apu and his elder sister Durga in a poor village. It was the first part of the Apu Trilogy, and it won eleven international prizes, including the Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Its companion stamp shows Ray himself. 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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