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Shonku Ekai Aksho
''Shonku Ekai Aksho'' (''Shonku, All in All'') is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1983. Ray wrote the stories about Professor Shanku for Bengali magazines ''Sandesh'' and ''Anandamela''. This book is a collection of four Shonku stories. Stories * Mahakasher Doot (Anandamela, Autumn 1979), * Shonku'r Congo Abhijan. (Anandamela, Autumn 198 1), * Nakurbabu o El Dorado (Anandamela, Autmnn 1980), * Professor Shonku o UFO (Anandamela ''Anandamela'', ''Anondamela'', or ''Anondomela'' (Bengali: আনন্দমেলা) is a children's periodical in the Bengali language published by the ABP Group from Kolkata, India. History and profile The first issue of ''Anandamela'' ..., Autumn, 1982) See also *'' Punashcha Professor Shonku'' *'' Selam Professor Shonku'' References {{Professor Shonku 1983 books Science fiction short stories Professor Shonku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of film-making, Ray is celebrated for works including ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959), ''The Music Room'' (1958), ''The Big City'' (1963) and ''Charulata'' (1964). Ray was born in Calcutta to nonsense rhyme author Sukumar Ray. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent film-making after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film ''Bicycle Thieves'' (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. Ray's first film, ''Pather Panchali'' (1955) won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with ''Aparajito'' (1956) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, fifth most-spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official language, official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professor Shonku
Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku (Bengali: প্রফেসর শঙ্কু) 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. He is the central protagonist of the series. Professor Shonku resides in Giridih. His house contains a laboratory, and he lives with his pet cat, Newton, named after Sir Issac Newton and his man-servant, Prahlad. He was born in the year of 1912 but his year of death is unknown. Character Development Introduction to the character Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku (known popularly as Professor Shonku) is the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's series "The Adventures of Professor Shonku." The first story of the series introduced him, in "ব্যোমযাত্রীর ডায়রি" ( Byomjatrir Diary). Professor Shonku's father Tripureshwar was a physician. Professor Shonku was born on 16 June 1912. His nickname is Tilu. Professor Shonku passed matriculat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anandamela
''Anandamela'', ''Anondamela'', or ''Anondomela'' (Bengali: আনন্দমেলা) is a children's periodical in the Bengali language published by the ABP Group from Kolkata, India. History and profile The first issue of ''Anandamela'' appeared in March 1975. Satyajit Ray designed the cover of first issue. The magazine is published on a fortnightly basis. It has been edited by several eminent personalities at different times including the poet Nirendranath Chakravarty, Ashok Kumar Sarkar, and Debasish Bandopadhyay. The present editor is Caeser Bagchi . ''Anandamela'' is one of the oldest surviving Bengali children's magazines and is published twice a month, on the fifth (previously second) and twentieth days. Many authors started writing for children through ''Anandamela''; for example, author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay was noticed as a children's author after writing ''Manojder Adbhut Baari'', which was published in ''Anandamela'' as a serial novel. On 19 June 2004, '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Dorado
El Dorado (, ; Spanish for "the golden"), originally ''El Hombre Dorado'' ("The Golden Man") or ''El Rey Dorado'' ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish in the 16th century to describe a mythical tribal chief (''zipa'') or king of the Muisca people, an indigenous people of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense of Colombia, who as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita. The legends surrounding El Dorado changed over time, as it went from being a man, to a city, to a kingdom, and then finally to an empire. A second location for El Dorado was inferred from rumors, which inspired several unsuccessful expeditions in the late 1500s in search of a city called Manoa on the shores of Lake Parime or Parima. Two of the most famous of these expeditions were led by Sir Walter Raleigh. In pursuit of the legend, Spanish conquistadors and numerous others searched what is today Colombia, Venezuela, and parts of Guyana and northern Brazil, for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punashcha Professor Shonku
''Punashcha Professor Shonku'' (''Shonku Once Again'') is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1993. Ray wrote these stories about Professor Shanku for Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ... magazines ''Sandesh'' and ''Anandamela''. This book is a collection of five Shanku stories. Stories * Ashcharjantu, * Shonku o Adim Manush, * Shonkur Porolokchorcha, * Professor Rondir Time Machine See also *'' Shabash Professor Shonku'' *'' Professor Shonkur Kandokarkhana'' References {{Professor Shonku 1993 books Science fiction short story collections Professor Shonku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selam Professor Shonku
''Selam Professor Shonku'' (''Hats off, Professor Shonku'') is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1995. Ray wrote these stories about Professor Shanku for Bengali magazines ''Sandesh'' and ''Anandamela''. This book is a collection of seven Shonku stories. Stories * Nefrudet er Samadhi (Sandesh, Autumn, 1986), * Dr. Danieli'r Abishkar (Sandesh, Autumn 1988), * Shonku o Frankenstein (Anandamela, Autumn 1988), * Don Christobaldi'r Bhabishyadbani (Anandamela, Autumn 1989), * Swarnaparnee (Anandamela, Autumn 1990), * Intelectron (Anandamela, Autumn 1992), * Dreksel Island er Ghatana (Anandamela, Autumn 1992) See also *'' Shabash Professor Shonku'' *''Punashcha Professor Shonku ''Punashcha Professor Shonku'' (''Shonku Once Again'') is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1993. Ray wrote these stories about Professor Shanku for Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Ben ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Books
The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro. * January 25 ** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. ** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space. February * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women. * February 3 – Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Short Stories
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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