Professor Shonku
Main Details
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Created by:Satyajit Ray
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Title:Professor Shonku
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Full Name:Trilokeshwar Shonku
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Nickname:Tilu Babu
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First Appearance:
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Last Appearance:Swarnaparnee
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Occupation:Scientific Inventor,
Professor of Physics (formely) -
Residence:Giridih
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Newton (Cat)
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Macao (Macaw)
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Dhimu (Slow Loris)
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Corvus (Crow)
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EA (Unknown Species created by Shonku)
Some of his pets
Some of his robots
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Bidhusekhar
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Compu
Professor Shonku - Details
Professor Shonku is a fictional character, created by the brilliant Satyajit Ray.
His first appearance was in 1961, in the story of Byomjatrir Diary published in the magazine of Sandesh.
In the first story, Professor Shonku, himself, narrated his experiences. From then onwards, 38 Complete Diaries and 2 incomplete diaries have been published till the year 1992.
In these 30 years, Professor Shonku and his stories became one of the best sellers for kids.
The well renowned scientist and discoverer was a True Bengali. He was fearless and a very simple person. He had supreme control over his mind. Professor Shonku's laboratory was located in Giridih. He was internationally recognized as a famous scientist.
Professor Shonku was appreciated by the Swedish Academy of Sciences. His stories were not only of Science Fiction, but they had the essence of mystery, and adventure. They won the hearts of both kids and adults.
Professor Shonku - Inventions
Some of his inventions:
- Annihillin: A pistol capable of annihilating (vanishing or vaporizing) anything that is living, invented because Shonku didn't like bloodshed. It does not work on non-living things.
- Miracurall: A drug that cures any ailment, the name is a short form of Miracle Cure for All Ailments.
- Nerviogour: A tonic to steady nervous system.
- Omniscope: A combination of telescope, microscope and X-ray-scope which looks like and can be worn as spectacles.
- Snuff Gun: A gun that causes sunffing for 33 hours.
- Mangorange: A hybrid tree with characteristics of both mango and orange.
- Mangorange Fruit: A delicious and nutritious variety of hybrid of mango and orange, it earned him a doctorate from Swedish Academy of Sciences.
- Camerapid: Instant color photographs after snap.
- Linguagraph: A device that translates any earthly language to any other. The translation capability is supposed to include animal languages, and works on cats, plants, ants and even viruses too. However, it does not work to translate speech of aliens.
- Time Machine: He attempted to build this one. Unfortunately, two other scientists built it before him.
- Shonku – Frankenstein Formula: Along with other scientists, Shonku invented to bring back the dead to life without changing their brains.
Why do I like him?
Professor Shonku is a fictional character, created by Satyajit Ray. He is one of my favourites too. Professor Shonku has created unimaginable inventions, which are mostly not possible in this era of humanity. He has also discovered quite a few things, which have led him to form interesting conclusions that are etched in our minds for a long time to come.
His pets make his stories even more lively, especially Newton, the cat. He has also tried to invent a time machine, by himself, which I like, because it tells that he can have lots of interesting ideas and can work by himself.
Professor Shanku’s science fictional adventures are what I’m very fond of reading. Without them, I would’ve forgotten about him very easily. He had many adventures, in both real and fantastical places, where we can learn about historical incidents, and some great revelations connected to human civilization.
If a person like him would’ve existed today, he would’ve invented some medicine or vaccine that wiped out the coronavirus easily and saved humanity from the dreaded damage of the virus, just like the Miracurall, which was a drug that cured any ailment.
