Social networks in the online world tend to reinforce the barriers that exist between groups - an insight previously discussed by researchers such as Danah Boyd. Many individual cultural figures also seem to exert influence within narrow communities rather than bridge divides between communities. Today we look at an exception, the network of the master Indian Bengali filmaker, Satyajit Ray, who seems to have lived a life on a bridge between western and eastern cultures.
In hindsight, I should have not been surprised by the challenges in compiling a social network dataset for cultural figures that live on the bridges between east and west. (This blog is part of my current pet project, which I still need a name for). Bridge figures bring a challenge of the diverse and multicultural nature of naming issues that exist in practical social network analysis.
Today's data comes from the biography of the late, master filmmaker Satyajit Ray. The biography was written by Andrew Robinson and published in 1989 by I.B. Tauris & Co. The book opens with an explanation of the Bengali pronunciation of ‘Satyajit Ray’, which it is noted is phonetically close to ‘Shottojeet Rye’. The many Indian proper names throughout the book blew away my previous set of proper names which was originally derived from the standard unix file /usr/share/dict/propernames. From various web sources I was able to collect and process lists of Indian names, and these lists approximately doubled the size of the proper names file I now am using. I use this file of proper name to filter the text from electronic biographies and memoirs – my methodology for beginning the build of social network sets for culturally significant figures. Below are my results.
The Social Network of Satyajit Ray (from Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker by Andrew Robinson.)
David Abraham
Peter Ackroyd
Kamala Adhikari
Mohan Agashe
Roshan Ali
Woody Allen
Tom Alter
Lindsay Anderson
Nigel Andrews
David Ansen
Will Apu
Rudolf Arnheim
Alex Aronson
Peggy Ashcroft
Janet Aston
Richard Attenborough
Ray Bijoya
Kamal Babu
Nanda Babu
Lord Bacon
Satish Bahadur
Krishna Bai
Chandana Banerjee
Nikhil Banerjee
Kali Banerjee
Victor Banerjee
Ratan Banerjee
Ajit Banerjee
Felix Barker
Jyoti Basu
Ananda Bazar
Amrita Bazar
Paul Beckley
Shyam Benegal
Jaya Bhaduri
Henry Biswas
Ray Bizarre
Dilip Bose
Chandra Bose
Kaveri Bose
Nitin Bose
Krishna Bose
Ray Bradbury
Alan Brien
Peter Brook
Gautama Buddha
Ian Buruma
Francis X Bushman
Luis Bunuel
Maria Callas
Vincent Canby
Marcel Carne
Michael Carritt
Lewis Carroll
Gautam Chakravarti
Ujjal Chakravarti
Prem Chand
Subhash Chandra
Charlie Chaplin
Nilima Chatterjee
Chandra Chatterjee
Anil Chatterjee
Kalyan Chatterjee
Sanjiv Chatterjee
Jyoti Chatterjee
Bijoy Chatterjee
Siddhartha Chatterjee
Ray Chaudhuri
Narayan Chowdhury
Anil Chowdhury
Bhaskar Chowdhury
Roy Chowdhury
Ray Chowdhury
Jesus Christ
Jean Christopher
Norman Clare
Arthur C Clarke
James Coburn
Jay Cocks
John Coleman
Ronald Colman
Arthur Conan
Ananda Coomaraswamy
Jim Corbett
Julian Crandall
Arlene Croce
Lord Curzon
Lord Dalhousie
Uma Das
Ray Das
Nalini Das
Siddhartha Deb
Anita Desai
Andre Deutsch
Indira Devi
Santa Devi
Padma Devi
Joe Devlin
Gopal Dey
Gita Dey
Rabindra Dharmaraj
Ray Dickens
Clare Dubois
Krishna Dutta
Asim Dutta
Chandra Dutta
Norman Ellis
Stuart Evans
Joseph Fayrer
George Fenton
Priya Films
Robert Flaherty
Henry Fonda
John Ford
Roger Fry
Jean Gabin
Sanjay Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Anil Ganguli
Sunil Ganguli
Rama Ganguli
John Gassner
Kumar Ghosal
Subhash Ghosal
Gautam Ghosh
John Gilbert
Don Giovanni
Walter Goodman
Lenny Gordon
Graham Greene
Paul Greenough
John Gross
Arjun Guha
Sunil Gupta
Anil Gupta
Robert Hardcastle
Edward Harrison
Hari Helen
Audrey Hepburn
King Hirak
Byron Hopper
Jack Hulbert
John Huston
Christopher Isherwood
James Ivory
Lester James
Suresh Jindal
Roland Joffe
Barry John
William Jones
Jennifer Jones
James Joyce
Raj Kahini
Jennifer Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor
Anna Karenina
Kalyani Karlekar
Stanley Kauffman
Jennifer Kendal
Amir Khusru
Ravi Kiran
Kajal Kohl
David Kopf
Uma Krupanidhi
Stanley Kubrick
Sanjeev Kumar
Prabhat Kumar
Kamal Kumar
Hari Kumar
Roshan Kumari
Akash Kusum
Henry Lawrence
David Lean
Edward Lear
Simon Legree
Tom Lehrer
Pierre Lenoir
Jerry Lewis
Roger Lipsey
Harold Lloyd
Joseph Losey
Eugene Lourie
Sidney Lumet
Claude Levi-Strauss
Michael Madhusudan
Chandra Mahalanobis
Indrani Majumdar
Kamal Majumdar
Kumar Majumdar
Lila Majumdar
Mohan Majumdar
Rabin Majumdar
Robin Majumdar
Samir Majumdar
Swapan Majumdar
Derek Malcolm
Louis Malle
Ranjit Mallick
Gerard Manley
Ray Marquand
Richard Marquand
Anthony Mayer
John McCarten
David McCutchion
James McFarlane
William McGonagall
Steve McQueen
George Melly
Victoria Memorial
Narayana Menon
Michael Meyer
George Michell
Arthur Miller
John Mills
Tom Milne
Leela Mishra
Kamal Misra
Kamal Mitra
Ananda Mohan
William Morris
Gene Moskowitz
Max Mueller
Anil Mukherjee
Arun Mukherjee
Kumar Mukherjee
Manu Mukherjee
Pradip Mukherjee
Prasad Mukherjee
Ramesh Mukherjee
Samir Mukherjee
Sankar Mukherjee
Sita Mukherjee
Subhash Mukherjee
Swapan Mukherjee
Vijaya Mulay
Amar Mullick
Ram Nam
Narendra Nath
Bharata Natyam
Devi Neogy
Alexander Nevsky
Philip Oakes
Morris Oxford
Peter Palmer
Ramakrishna Paramahansa
William Paul
Lester Peries
James Peries
Michael Powell
Bonnie Prince
Frances W Pritchett
Durga Puja
Om Puri
John Pym
James Quinn
Tim Radford
Terrence Rafferty
Amrit Rai
Raja Rammohun
Shanta Rao
Bharat Ratna
Rama Rau
Sandip Ray
Ray Ray
Lila Ray
Vicky Redwood
Jean Renoir
Eric Rhode
Donald Richie
Andrew Robinson
David Robinson
Romain Rolland
Ray Roman
Helen Ross
Roberto Rossellini
Paul Rotha
Richard Roud
Ray Roy
Dilip K Roy
Arun Roy
Indira Roy
Sandhya Roy
Kumar Roy
John Russell
Ray SATYAJIT
Kalidasa Sanskrit
Kumar Sarkar
Sunil Sarkar
Kali Sarkar
Martin Scorsese
Peter Sellers
David Selznick
Robin Sen
Gopal Sen
Kalyan Sen
Ranjit Sen
Dev Sen
Marie Seton
Asim Shakespeare
Ravi Shankar
Bernard Shaw
David Shepard
Gita Siddharth
Narinder Singh
Indrani Sinha
Vidya Sinha
Lord Sinha
Neil Sinyard
Ramesh Sippy
Steven Spielberg
Raymond Spottiswoode
Russell Square
Anil Srivastava
Edward Steichen
George Steiner
Ian Stephens
Isaac Stern
George Stevens
Ray T Tagore
Sharmila Tagore
Anil Talukdar
Jacques Tati
Robert Taylor
Russell Taylor
Walter Thompson
Edward Thompson
Howard Thompson
James Tod
Daniel Toscan
Kenneth Tynan
Peter Unmade
Ray Unmade
King Vidor
King Wajid
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waughish
Johnny Weissmuller
Rainer Werner
Billy Wilder
John Willett
Sir William
Mike Wilson
Van Winkle
Hugo Wolf
Robin Wood
Susan Wooldridge
Will Workers
William Wyler
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