Pather Panchali (novel) Pather Panchali (novel) Pather Panchali (, Pôther Pãchali, translated as Song of the Road) is a novel written by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay and was later adapted into a film of the same name by Satyajit Ray. "Pather Panchali" deals with the life of the Roy family, both in their ancestral village in rural Bengal and later when they move to Varanasi in search of a better life, as well as the anguish and loss they face during their travels. It first appeared as a serial in a Calcutta periodical in 1928 and was published as a book the next year; it
Anthony Wall (film-maker) a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures in 20th and 21st centuries, from Slim Gaillard to Amy Winehouse, from Edward Said to Eric Hobsbawm and from Jean Genet to V S Naipaul. Anthony Wall grew up in Hackney, East London. He attended a Catholic grammar school before studying English at King's College, Cambridge. Wall has personally been awarded three Bafta awards, three Royal Television Society awards, an Emmy, the Prix Italia, and the Special Medallion of the Telluride Film Festival. Anthony Wall (film-maker) Anthony Wall is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose lifelong contribution to cinema has been honoured