সত্যজিৎ রায | Satyajit Ray
Legal name: সত্যজিৎ রায়
Transliterated name: Ray, Satyajit
Birth place: Calcutta, Bengal, India
Birth date: 2 May 1921
Death date: 23 April 1992
Language: Bengali
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The Diary of a Space Traveller and Other Stories
Unknown year
Library edition: 2008, Puffin Classics edition
Puffin / Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-333090-5
Paperback, x+272 pages
₹199
Notes:
• Translated by by Satyajit Ray and Gopa Majumdar.
• Introduction by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Translator's Note by Gopa Majumdar.
• Originally titled The Exploits of Professor Shonku: The Diary of a Space Traveller and Other Stories.
Fiction: The Diary of a Space Traveller // Professor Shonku and the Bones // Professor Shonku and the Macaw //
Professor Shonku and the Mysterious Sphere // Professor Shonku and Chee-ching // Professor Shonku and the Little
Boy // Professor Shonku and the Spook // Professor Shonku and Robu // Professor Shonku and the Egyptian Terror
// Professor Shonku and the Curious Statuettes // Professor Shonku and the Box from Baghdad // Corvus
The Collected Short Stories
2015
Library edition: July 2015, 1st edition, 1st printing
Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-143-42505-2
Trade paperback, 679 pages
₹499
Notes:
• Translated by Satyajit Ray and Gopa Majumdar.
Fiction: Bonku Babu's Friend // The Pterodactyl's Egg // The Hungry Septopus // The Small World of Sadananda //
Anath Babu's Terror // The Two Magicians // Shibu and the Monster // Patol Babu, Film Star // Bipin Chowdhury's
Lapse of Memory // The Vicious Vampire // Indigo // Pikoo's Diary // Ratan Babu and That Man // Fritz // Mr
Brown's Cottage // Mr Eccentric // Khagam // Barin Bhowmick's Ailment // The Admirer // Fotikchand //
Ashamanja Babu's Dog // Load Shedding // The Class Friend // Sahadev Babu's Portrait // A Strange Night for Mr
Shasmal // Pintu's Grandfather // Big Bill // The Attic // Bhuto // Stranger // The Maths Teacher, Mr Pink and Tipu
// Spotlight // Uncle Tarini and Betal // Chameleon // The Citation // Sadhan Babu's Suspicions // Gagan
Chowdhury's Studio // A Duel in Lucknow // The Millionaire // I Am a Ghost // The Two Comedians // A Dream
Come True // Nitai and the Holy Man // Uncle Tarini, the Maharaja // Anukul // The Scarecrow // Kutum-Katam //
The Case of Mriganko Babu // The Promise
3 Rays: Stories from Satyajit Ray
2021
< August 2021, 1st edition
Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-01-4344-898-3
Trade paperback, 478 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Edited and with a Foreword by Sandip Ray, co-edited with Riddhi Goswami.
• Satyajit Ray's translations from the Bengali of stories by Upendrakishore Roy Chowdhury, S. Sukumaran Potti and
Satyajit Ray, plus 2 of Ray's original stories in English ('Abstraction', 'Shades of Grey').
• Illustrated by Satyajit Ray and Upendrakishore.
Fiction: Upendrakishore Roy Chowdhury: Majantali Sarkar // The Toony Bird // Narahari Dass // The Bent Old
Woman // The Ant, the Elephant and the Brahmin's Servant // Tiger in the Cage
S. Sukumaran Potti: Stew Much! // The Old Woodman // The Missing Whiskers // Old Tickler // Uncle's Invention
// The Sons of Rangaroo // Prey for Me // The Pundit's Wrath // Baburam the Snake Charmer // The King's Illness
// The King of Bombardia // Groomy Tidings // Odour in the Court // The Diary of Prof Heshoram Hoshiar
Satyajit Ray: Film Treatment of Upendrakishore's 'Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne' // Bonkubabu's Friend // The Small
World of Sadananda // Patolbabu, Film Star // Bipin Choudhury's Lapse of Memory // Professor Shonku and Khoka
– Draft Script // Night of the Indigo // The Life and Death of Aryashekhar // Magic Box of Baghdad // ratanbabu and
That Man // Fritz // The Sahara Mystery // Corvus // Khagam // The Unicorn Expedition // Tellus //
Ashamanjababu's Dog // Big Bill // Tipu, the Maths Teacher and the Pink Man // The Duel // Abstraction // Shades
of Grey
Essays: Satyajit Ray, Upendrakishore // Sukumar // Satyajit on His Literary Works
Indigo: Selected Stories
2001
Library edition: 2020 edition, 9th printing
Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-143-06809-9
Trade paperback, x+264 pages
₹399
Notes:
• Originally titled The Best of Satyajit Ray in 2001.
• Introduction by Gopa Majumdar.
• Translated by Satyajit Ray and Gopa Majumdar.
Fiction: The Hungry Septopus // Ratanbabu and That Man // Bonku Babu's Friend // The Two Magicians //
Ashamanja Babu's Dog // Patol Babu, Film Star // Indigo // Bipin Chowdhury's Lapse of Memory // Fritz // Barin
Bhowmick's Ailment // The Maths Teacher, Mr Pink and Tipu // Big Bill // Khagam // Anath Babu's Terror // The
Small World of Sadananda // The Pterodactyl's Egg // Shibu and the Monster // Mr Eccentric // A Strange Night for
Mr Shasmal // Bhuto // Pikoo's Diary
Another Dozen Stories
2021
< May 2021 edition
Puffin / Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-344703-0
Paperback, 256 pages
₹250
Notes:
• Introduction by Sharmila Tagore.
• Translated by Indrani Majumdar.
Fiction: The Life and Death of Aryasekhar // Professor Hijibijbij // Poisonous Flowers // The McKenzie Fruit // The
First-Class Compartment // A Hoax // Worthless // Ramdham's Flute // Master Angshuman // Rocket // A Portrait
// Telephone
One Dozen Stories
Unknown year
< March 2014 edition
Puffin / Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-344703-0
Paperback, 256 pages
₹250
Notes:
• Introduction by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
• Unknown translator.
Fiction: Undetermined
Travails with the Alien: The Film That Was Never Made and Other
Adventures with Science Fiction
2018
< April 2018, 1st edition
HarperCollins India
ISBN 978-9-352-77915-4
Paperback, 224 pages
₹699
Notes:
• Edited and with a Foreword by Sandip Ray.
Essays: SF // A Look at Science Fiction Films // Truffaut, Kubrick and SF // Sci-Fi Cine Club Documents // Letter
from Ray Bradbury to Satyajit Ray, 12 February 1963 // Letter from Arthur C. Clarke to Satyajit Ray, 2 October 1987 //
Amita Malik, Satyajit Ray and The Alien // Ordeals of The Alien // Aseem Chhabra, Correspondences and News
Reports Regarding The Alien, including a Note Titled Ray and The Alien
Fiction: Bonkubabu's Friend
Scripts: Bonkubabu's Friend: TV series // The Alien: A Treatment // // The Alien: Script for Columbia // The Alien
script notebook
Interviews: All India Radio (AIR) Interview with Satyajit Ray // The Alien: An Interview with Satyajit Ray
Appendix: Sukumar Ray, The Diary of Prof. Heshoram Hoshiar // Tipu, The Maths Teacher + The Pink Man // A Note
on the Society for the Preservation of Satyajit Ray Archives
The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku
2020
< May 2021 edition
Puffin / Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-344703-0
Paperback, 256 pages
₹250
Notes:
• Introduction 'Professor Enigmatic' by Dhritiman Chaterji.
• Translated by Satyajit Ray and Indrani Majumdar, with a Translator's Note by Indrani Majumdar.
Fiction: Tellus // Professor Rondi's Time Machine // Nefrudet's Tomb // Shonku and the Primordial Man // Shonku's
Date with History // Shonku and Frankenstein // Dr Danielli's Discovery // Prophecies by Don Christobaldi // The
Tree with Golden Leaves
The Mystery of Munroe Island and Other Stories
2015
< August 2015 edition
Puffin / Penguin Books India
ISBN 978-0-14-333328-9
Paperback, 392 pages
₹299
Notes:
• Introduction by Victor Banerjee.
• Translated by Indrani Majumdar.
Fiction: Dr Schering's Memory // Hypnojen // The Black Night of Professor Shonku // Shonku's Golden Opportunity
// The Mystery of Munroe Island // A Messenger from Space // Nakur Babu and El Dorado // Shonku's Expedition to
the Congo // Shonku and the UFO // EA
