Shanku Abhijan by Prasenjit Dasgupta [Hardcover]

When writing a diary, people don't usually write much about themselves. However, Professor Shonku wrote his diary with himself in mind. Therefore, all Bengalis are familiar with his adventures. Erasing the complex equations of imagination and science, Professor Trilokeswar Shonku becomes one of our own. No matter how much people think that Professor Shonku was created in the image of Britain's George Edward Challenger or Hansoram Hushiar or Nidhiram Patkel, we, the fans of Shonku and Satyajit, know and believe that he is a real person made of flesh and blood, albeit intellectually light years ahead of common people.

Despite searching extensively, since he was not found in Giridih, it had to be assumed that he is still hale and hearty, continuing his work in the English countryside or in a cottage by the Channel, or in a palace in the Scottish Highlands, or perhaps in a Schloss in Germany or Austria, or in a villa on the French Riviera, in the company of Prahlad and Newton, due to the strength of Miracureol, Cerebrillium, Nerviger, etc. Since he could not be reached, the effort to know and understand him had to be made based on information derived from his published diaries and some logical assumptions. The result of that quest for Shonku is this book.