![]() ![]() ![]() According to Tarak, he found the journal inside the hole of the meteorite. Tarak discloses to the Editor that he went to the Sundarbans to collect tiger skin while a meteorite crashed in the place. The next story of the series was published three years later.Ī 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). Originally the story was not written as a part of the series as Ray did not have any intention to write a sequel of it. Most notable of these inventions are a rocket to Mars, Bidhushekhar the Robot and a pill called Botika Indica. In "Byomjatrir Diary", 11 of Professor Shonku's 1093 fictional inventions are mentioned. The story follows Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, a Bengali scientist and inventor, who travelled to Mars and after being attacked by the Martians, fled to a planet named Tafa, where the inhabitants welcomed him and made him a citizen of their planet. Ray included this story in his first collection of Shonku stories, Professor Shonku, in 1965. It was first published in Sandesh, edited by Ray himself, in 1961. ![]() "Byomjatrir Diary" ( Bengali: ব্যোমযাত্রীর ডায়রি, The Spaceman’s Diary) is the first story of the Professor Shonku series created by Indian writer and filmmaker Satyajit Ray. ![]()
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