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Shabash Professor Shonku

1974 short story collection by Satyajit Ray

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7460040 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shabash Professor Shonku (Bravo Professor Shonku) is a Professor Shonku series book written by Satyajit Ray and published by Ananda Publishers in 1974. Ray wrote the stories about Professor Shanku in Bengali magazines Sandesh and Anandamela. This book is a collection of seven Shonku stories.

Stories

Ashcharya Pranee (Sandesh, Autumn 1971),

Swapnadweep (Sandesh, May and June 1971),

Moru Rahasya (Sandesh, May and June 1972),

Corvus (Anandamela, Autumn 1972),

Dr.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1971, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974. For this dossier, Shabash, Professor and Shonku is the immediate research focus.
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