Professor Shonku

Professor Shonku
Professor Shonku (in the middle) along with his English friend Jeremy Saunders and German friend Wilhelm Kroll
First appearanceByomjatrir Diary
Last appearanceSwarnaparnee
Created bySatyajit Ray
Portrayed byDhritiman Chatterjee
In-universe information
Full nameTrilokeshwar Shonku
NicknameTilu, Shanks
TitleProfessor
Occupation
FamilyShonku
RelativesTripureswar Shonku (father)
Batukeshwar Shonku (great-great grandfather (অতি বৃদ্ধ পৌরপিতামহ)
ReligionHinduism
NationalityIndian
ResidenceGiridih
Pets
  • Newton (cat, permanent)
  • Macaw (macaw)
  • Dhimu (slow loris)
  • Corvus (crow)
  • EA (Extraordinary Animal - a new type of undiscovered monkey type animal)
Robots
  • Bidhusekhar
  • Compu
  • Robu
Language skillsCapable of speaking 69 languages
Mother tongueBengali
DegreeB.Sc; Honorary doctorate from the Swedish Academy of Sciences

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 on. 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 Isaac Newton and his man-servant, Prahlad. He was born in the year of 1912 but his year of death is unknown.