Monthly Archives: January 2010

January 23, 2010

Feluda Quiz 6 – Gorosthane Shabdhan! (গোরস্থানে সাবধান!)

This is the sixth part of a series of trivia quizzes on Feluda films and stories.  If you’ve read the book, Gorosthane Shabdhan!, you should be able to answer most of the questions in this quiz. Questions: 1. What were … Continue reading →

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January 16, 2010

Feluda Quiz 5 – Chinnamastar Abhishaap (ছিন্নমস্তার অভিশাপ)

This is the fifth part of a series of trivia quizzes on Feluda films and stories.  If you’ve read the book, Chinnamastar Abhishaap, you should be able to answer most of the questions in this quiz. Questions: 1. At the … Continue reading →

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January 3, 2010

Gorosthane Sabdhan- a walk through Victorian Calcutta (গোরস্থানে সাবধান)

When Satyajit Ray wrote the Feluda novel, Gorosthane Shabdhan! (গোরস্থানে সাবধান) in 1977, the process of renaming streets and locations in Calcutta had already started. Of course, this reached a frenzied pace in recent years with the renaming of the … Continue reading →

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January 2, 2010

Feluda Quiz 4 – Feludar Goendagiri (ফেলুদার গোয়েন্দাগিরি)

This is the fourth part of a series of trivia quizzes on Feluda films and stories. This quiz is on the story Feludar Goendagiri, in which both Topshe and Feluda were introduced in 1965. If you get stumped you may … Continue reading →

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January 1, 2010

Feluda and Topshe in Feludar Goendagiri (ফেলুদার গোয়েন্দাগিরি)

When Satyajit Ray introduced a new Bengali detective in Feludar Goendagiri (ফেলুদার গোয়েন্দাগিরি) in the Bengali periodical Sandesh in 1965, he did not have any plans for continuing the series. Details on how the story originated can be found in … Continue reading →

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