Complete Adventures of Feluda
A marvellous gift to mankind from Satyajit Ray – 2 wonderful characters Feluda and Professor Shonku.
To say something about Satyajit Ray seems like possessing a big mouth
. Few of us know him as a writer since he is better known to us as a film maker. Well, he intended to write some funny, educative, thriller stories for young children for his monthly magazine for children. However, the stories turned out to be read more by adults and easily became the rage of the town. Simply superb way of story telling. Since the stories are meanth for children, Ray has made an excellent choice to have the narrator of stories as Topshe, a young lad in his teens – a cousin of our detective Feluda. The stories are always set in different locales within and sometimes outside India and give such an elaborate account of the locales that reader feels like having seen the same place through Ray’s eyes. To add, without letting you even know about it, the stories add a lot to your knowledge quotient as Ray is spicing up his stories with good amount of knowledge without bogging down the reader with the “learning stress”.
In all, an excellent book to be read by your kids and you as well, in case you are still young at heart