''Jakhan Choto Chilam'' (English meaning-''When I was a kid'') is a 1982
autobiographical
An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written account of one's own life.
It is a form of biography.
Definition
The word "autobiography" was first used deprecatingly by William Taylor in 1797 in the English peri ...
book by the famed
film director Satyajit Ray.
In this book, Ray discusses his childhood days in the city of
Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...
(then Calcutta), India from eyes of an everyday boy.
References
1982 non-fiction books
Indian autobiographies
Books by Satyajit Ray
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