Andrew Robinson is the author of more than two dozen books on a wide range of subjects. They include biographies of artists and scientists such as Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein, a large-format photographic study, Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005), and The Apu Trilogy: Satyajit Ray and the Making of an Epic (2011). He has also written about Ray for major newspapers and magazines, such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, American Cinematographer and Sight and Sound.

SATYAJIT RAY: THE INNER EYE by Andrew Robinson
Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations x
Note on the Pronunciation and Spelling of Bengali xii
Introduction: Getting to know Ray
1 A Bengali Banyan Tree: The Ray Family
2 Early Years 1921-40
3 Santiniketan and Tagore 1940-2
4 Commercial Artist and Critic 1943-50
5 The Making of Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) 1950-5
6 The Apu Trilogy 1955-9: Pather Panchali, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), The World of Apu
(Apur Sansar)
7 Comedies: The Philosopher's Stone (Parash Pathar) 1958, Mahapurush (The Holy Man) 1964
8 The Music Room (Jalsaghar) 1958
9 The Goddess (Devi) 1960
10 Three Daughters (Teen Kanya) 1961
11 Kanchenjungha 1962
12 Abhijan (The Expedition) 1962
13 Mahanagar (The Big City) 1963
14 Charulata (The Lonely Wife) 1964
15 Kapurush (The Coward) 1965
16 Nayak (The Hero) 1966
17 Musicals: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne) 1969, The
Kingdom of Diamonds (Hirak Rajar Dese) 1980
18 Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Din Ratri) 1969
19 The Calcutta Trilogy: The Adversary (Pratidwandi) 1970, Company Limited (Seemabaddha)
1971, The Middle Man (Jana Aranya) 1975
20 Distant Thunder (Asani Sanket) 1973
21 Detective Films: Chiriakhana (The Zoo) 1967, The Golden Fortress (Sonar Kella) 1974, The
Elephant God (Joi Baba Felunath) 1978
22 The Chess Players (Shatranj ke Khilari) 1977
23 Two 1964, Pikoo 1980
24 Deliverance (Sadgati) 1981
25 The Home and the World (Ghare Baire) 1984
26 Documentaries: Sikkim 1971, Sukumar Ray 1987, Rabindranath Tagore 1961, Bala 1976, The
Inner Eye 1972
27 Unmade Films: Ravi Shankar, The Mahabharata, A Passage to India, The Alien
28 Ray as Designer, Illustrator and Writer
29 'Some Aspects of His Craft': Ray as Film-maker
30 'The Inner Eye'
31 Koh-i-noor: An Enemy of the People (Ganasatru) 1989, Branches of the Tree (Sakha Prasakha)
1990, The Stranger (Agantuk) 1991, and the Legacy of Satyajit Ray
Epilogue: A Century of Satyajit Ray, 1921-2021
A Conversation with Ray
Glossary
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index