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India offers help to rebuild Ray heritage home in Dhaka amid outrage over plan to demolish it

IndiaTimes Wednesday, 16 July 2025 ()
The ancestral home of filmmaker Satyajit Ray in Dhaka is being demolished to construct a new Shishu Academy, sparking concerns about the loss of the Ray dynasty's legacy. Local residents and officials from the Department of Archeology expressed their concerns, but their requests to protect the building were ignored.
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