Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Kodayake su Bengali Kayasthas ne, Rays sun kasance 'Vaishnavas' (masu bautar Vishnu) kamar yadda yawancin Bengali Kayasthas suke 'Shaktos' (masu bautar Shakti).Sukumar Ray ya mutu lokacin da Satyajit bai kai shekara uku ba, kuma dangin sun tsira daga ƙarancin kudin shiga na Suprabha Ray. Ray ya yi karatu a Makarantar Sakandaren Gwamnatin Ballygunge, Calcutta, kuma ya kammala karatunsa na BA a fannin tattalin arziki a Kwalejin Shugabanci, Calcutta sannan ya haɗu da Jami'ar Calcutta, (yanzu Kolkata) kodayake sha'awarsa koyaushe tana cikin zane-zane. A cikin 1940, mahaifiyarsa ta dage cewa ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Visva-Bharati a Santiniketan, wanda Rabindranath Tagore ya kafa. Ray ya yi jinkiri saboda ƙaunarsa ga Calcutta, da ƙarancin ra'ayi game da rayuwar ilimi a Santiniketan. Shawarwarin mahaifiyarsa da girmamawarsa ga Tagore a ƙarshe ya shawo kansa ya gwada. A cikin Santiniketan, Ray ya zo ya nuna godiya ga zane-zane na Gabas. Daga baya ya yarda cewa ya koyi abubuwa da yawa daga shahararrun masu zane-zane Nandalal Bose da Benode Behari Mukherjee. Daga baya ya samar da fim din, The Inner Eye, game da Mukherjee. Ziyarar da ya kai Ajanta, Ellora da Elephanta sun ƙarfafa sha'awarsa ga fasahar Indiya.  Tambaya: Wanene ya kafa Santiniketan?
Rabindranath Tagore