Mahabharata For Young Readers

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (1863–1915) was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violinist, composer, technologist and entrepreneur. He was born on 10 May 1863 in a little village called Moshua in Mymensingh District in Bengal, now in Bangladesh. He spent most of his adult life in Kolkata, where he died on 20 December 1915, aged only fifty-two. He was the father of the well-known writer Sukumar Ray and grandfather of the renowned filmmaker Satyajit Ray. As a writer Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury is best known for his retelling of epics and folklore; as a printer he pioneered the art of engraving and colour printing in India at the time when both were also being first tried in the West.

Swapna Dutta has been writing and translating, mostly for children, for the last four decades and has more than 40 titles to her credit, including translations. She has been published by HarperCollins, Scholastic, Orient Longman, Rupa, Children’s Book Trust and National Book Trust, among others.