THE ROAD APU TRAVELLED

purba Kumar Roy urges his five-year-old son, Kajol, “Dadu ke bolbona. Esho… (We won’t tell Grandpa. Come…)” The child runs across, flinging himself up his father’s arms. Last we saw them, Kajol was sitting on his baba’s shoulders, chin on his head, while dadu was left clutching a toy train and looking on with a half-smile. That final scene of Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar (The