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Mahasankatey Shonku. Mahasonkote Shonku ( Shonku in Deep Peril) [1] is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1977. [2] Ray wrote the stories about Professor Shanku for Bengali magazines Sandesh and Anandamela. This book is a collection of three Shonku stories.
The list of Professor Shonku adventures include 38 stories of Professor Shonku adventures written by Satyajit Ray. The first "Shonku" story Byomjatrir Diary ( An Astronaut's Diary) was published in the Sandesh in 1965. [1] [2] It was a long story describing Professor Shonku's space travel. The last Shonku adventure Intelectron remained ...
StoryEnglish TitleFirst Date Of PublicationShonku o FrankensteinShonku and FrankensteinAnandamela, Autumn 1988Nakurbabu O El DoradoNakur Babu and El DoradoAnandamela, Autmnn 1980Dr. Sering er SmaramsaktiDr Schering’s MemoryAnandamela, Autumn 1974Shonku'r Subarna SujogShonku’s Golden OpportunitySandesh, April, May and June 1977- Plot Summary
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Summary
A poor and amateur writer named Tarak Chatterjee approaches the nameless Editor of Sandesh with a journal by Professor Shonku (a scientist who had disappeared 15 years ago). Tarak discloses to the Editor that he went to the Sundarbans to collect tiger skin while a meteorite crashed in the place. According to Tarak, he found the journal inside the hole of the meteorite. The intrigued Editor takes the journal home and inadvertently discovers that the journal is indestructible; he unsuccessfully...
Characters
1. Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku: The main narrator and protagonistof the story. He's a Bengali scientist who went into space to explore Mars, lost his way while returning and arrived in Tafa, an unknown planet. Since then, he has been living there and subsequently, has vanished from Earth. 2. Newton: Shonku's pet cat. 3. Prahlad: Shonku's domestic worker and housekeeper who accompanies his master in the space journey. 4. Bidhushekhar: A robot created by Shonku for his help. Bidhushekhar late...
The story, written and illustrated by Ray, was originally published in Sandesh, a children's magazine from Calcutta, edited by Ray himself, as a serial in monthly instalment that began appearing in September 1961 and continued to November 1961. At the time of writing or serialisation of the story, Ray had no intention to write a sequel of it. The n...
Mukhopadhyay, Debashish. Satyajit Ray: Tathyapanji [Satyajit Ray: A Database] (in Bengali) (1st ed.). Kolkata: Srishti Prakashan. ISBN 81-7870-065-4.
Jun 26, 2020 · The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku; Satyajit Ray, Indrani Majumdar (tr.); Puffin; Fiction; ₹299. The Shonku stories are full of detailed descriptions of amazing inventions — more on that ...
May 7, 2020 · Prof Shonku finds the AI machine in Tellus. Indrani Majumdar was just 10 when she “experienced my first adventure with Shonku in the annual issue of Sandesh in 1961.”. Even today, she feels ...
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Bravo! Professor Shonku (New Delhi, India: Vision Books, 1983) [coll: trans by Kathleen M O'Connell of the above: Professor Shonku: binding unknown/] Mahasankatey Shonku ["Shonku in Deep Peril"] (Calcutta, India: Ananda Publishers, 1977) [coll: Professor Shonku: binding unknown/]