Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku is a fictional scientist and inventor created by Satyajit Ray in a series of Bengali science fiction books of the same name published from 1965.
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15 Facts About Professor Shonku
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Professor Shonku's house contains a laboratory, and he lives with his pet cat, Newton, named after Sir Issac Newton and his man-servant, Prahlad.
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Professor Shonku was born in the year of 1912 but his year of death is unknown.
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Professor Shonku passed matriculation examination of the University of Calcutta at the age of 12.
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At the age of 16, Professor Shonku received his BSc degree with honours in two subjects, Physics and Chemistry.
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In Satyajit Ray's last finished novel of the series, Swarnaparnee, that was initially published in the Special Puja issue of Anandamela children's magazine in 1992, it was mentioned that at the age of 20, Professor Shonku took his first job as a professor of physics in Calcutta's Scottish Church College.
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Professor Shonku had many adventures, in both real and fantastical places, some with historical leanings and some with great revelations connected to human civilisation.
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Professor Shonku is brought under Shonku's care, in a desperate attempt by the parents to bring the child back to normal.
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Professor Shonku meets a fakir who has this ability to re-animate a living thing from its bones.
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Professor Shonku tries to investigate, and to do so, he records the spell using his recorder, which enrages the fakir and causes him to curse Professor Shonku.
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Professor Shonku gets hold of a mysterious sphere which changes its color spontaneously and emanates various sounds.
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Professor Shonku is haunted by a repeating dream where he along, with his friends, are stranded on a beautiful exotic island without any inhabitants.
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Professor Shonku goes to Tibet, to find out about a Unicorn which is reported to be seen there.
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Professor Shonku tries to prove that human civilization has prospered thanks to the help of some alien civilisation that comes to Earth every 5000 years and teaches them something extraordinary.
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Some of Professor Shonku stories has been made into comics and published by Ananda Publishers.
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