Professor Shonku

Professor Shonku
Professor Shonku (in the middle) along with his English friend Jeremy Saunders and German friend Wilhelm Kroll
First appearance	Byomjatrir Diary
Last appearance	Swarnaparnee
Created by	Satyajit Ray
Portrayed by	Dhritiman Chatterjee
In-universe information
Full name	Trilokeshwar Shonku
Nickname	Tilu, Shanks
Title	Professor
Occupation	Physicist Scientific inventor Professor of physics at Scottish Church College (formerly)
Family	Shonku
Relatives	Tripureswar Shonku (father) Batukeshwar Shonku (great-great grandfather (অতি বৃদ্ধ পৌরপিতামহ)
Religion	Hinduism
Nationality	Indian
Residence	Giridih
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 skills	Capable of speaking 69 languages
Mother tongue	Bengali
Degree	B.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.