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Response India's Ram Ray left the world of advertising a better place

He was so knowledgeable about design that any astrologer could have predicted that one day there would be a Ray & Keshavan

Ram Ray
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Ram Ray

Sumit Roy
When I first saw Ram Ray, he was carrying a Kodak Carousel projector in a bag slung across his shoulder.

He emerged from the Brooke Bond lift on his way to meet D P Ghosh, the marketing manager with whom I had just had a two-hour long progress report meeting. (Yes, one did have progress reports meetings in 1978.)

My equanimity had just been shattered, as two-hour meetings with D P Ghosh were wont to do. Short of physically tearing the artworks that I was supposed to have got approved, D P Ghosh had educated me on just how incompetent