In his personal life, Feluda is a common Bengali youth has been brought up by his father's younger brother ( Tapesh / Topshe's father ) after his parent's death when he was only 9.

He also has a minor role in Boshpukery Khunkharapi, where he takes part in a surveillance mission with the rest of the Feluda gang in disguise.

However, when Feluda returns to the guest house he finds that Burman has already left.

Feluda suspects foul play, and is confirmed when he finds that Burman has misspelled the word Hajra in the attendance register of the guest house.

In the night, Mandar Bose tries to stab Feluda, but Feluda was only pretending to be asleep and has him at gunpoint.

Following recent Feluda films made by Sandip Ray, Satyajit Ray's son, there have been questions over Sidhu Jyatha's continued relevance in the stories considering technologies such as the internet offer a faster, wider and more effective knowledge base than a well-read person.

Lately, a series of Feluda collections have also been published, containing several stories in a single title.

Most recently Feluda titles have been accumulated under Feluda Shamagra.

Jatayu makes his first appearance in Sonar Kella joining Feluda and Topshe in the train at Kanpur, on their way to Jodhpur.

In the Feluda series that followed, Feluda was portrayed as a man of around 27 with a tall ( 6 ' 2 "), athletic figure.

Feluda lives with Topshe's family.

In Baksho Rahasya or Mystery of a box, he confuses hippos with walruses — a tendency that Feluda often tries to correct.

Feluda accepts the assignment and leaves for Rajasthan along with Topshe ( Siddartha Chatterjee ).

About 25 years later Feluda returns in silver screen with a new cast & crews, directed by his Ray's son Sandip Ray.

Byomkesh is one of the most popular characters in Bengali literature, along with Feluda of Satyajit Ray, Kakababu of Sunil Gangopadhyay, Parashor Barma and Ghanada of Premendra Mitra and Tenida of Narayan Gangopadhyay.

In the first two films on Feluda, which were directed by Ray himself, the character was played by Santosh Dutta, and after the first one, Ray modified the literary character to some extent, making him look and behave quite like Dutta himself.

Utpal Dutta immortalised this character in one Feluda movie Joi Baba Felunath, which Satyajit Ray directed.

His interpretation of the character in this and the other Feluda film Joi Baba Felunath were so powerful that Ray modeled the character of Jatayu in later books on him.

* Jatayu ( Lal Mohan Ganguly ), a character in the Feluda stories by Satyajit Ray

He played a crucial role in Gorosthaney Sabhdhan where he saved the lives of Feluda, Lalmohon, and Topshe. In Ambar Sen Ontordhan Rohossho, Haripad is seen carrying the ransom to the kidnapper.

Feluda played by Soumitra, the sharp and witty detective from Calcutta, his cousin Topshe and friend Lalmohan Ganguly played by Santosh Dutta visit Benaras ( Varanasi ), a town on the banks of Ganges.

Coincidentally, Chatterjee also played the role of Topse-the juvenile assistant of another Bengali private investigator, Feluda ( played by Sabyasachi Chakraborty ) in Baksho Rahashya ( film ) in 1996 and a T. V.

Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra, who uses the anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter, is a fictional private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories written by Indian Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray.

Feluda is always accompanied by his cousin Tapesh ( ironically called Topshe by Feluda ), and from the sixth story, Sonar Kella ( The Golden Fortress ), by a popular thriller writer Jatayu ( Lalmohon Ganguli ).

Prodosh Chandra Mitter, popularly known by his nickname Feluda, first appeared in the eponymous short story Feludar Goyendagiri ( Feluda's Investigation ) in 1965.

It is one of the most enduringly popular Bengali films and is still shown very regularly by various TV channels. It is the very first film of Feluda in silver screen.

Alarmed by the failed kidnapping of his son, Mukul's father engages the service of Feluda ( Soumitra Chatterjee ), a private investigator, to help protect his son.

The film is based on the famous Feluda novel of the same name written by Ray himself. It is the second film of Feluda as well as the sequel of Sonar Kella directed by Satyajit Ray.

* Soumitra Chatterjee as Feluda

* Soumitra Chatterjee as Feluda

Soumitra featured as Feluda / Pradosh Chandra Mitter, the famous private investigator from Calcutta in Ray's Feluda series of books, in two films in the 1970s Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath.

Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children ’ s magazine called Sandesh in 1965, under the editorialship of Satyajit Ray and Subhas Mukhopadhyay.

Despite being a strongly built man adept in martial arts, Feluda relies mostly upon his superb analytical ability and observation skill ( jokingly referred to as the ' Magajastra ' or brain-weapon ) to solve cases instead of using physical strength or weapons.

However, contemporary ( 2000's ) movies based on Feluda stories feature scenes of violence uncharacteristic of the series, where Feluda demonstrates his martial art prowess.

Feluda is known to be a good sleight-of-hand and he put that skill to use for solving couple of cases.

Feluda, too, taught in a school prior to his detective career.

Contrary to his otherwise healthy lifestyle, Feluda enjoys smoking cigarettes and chewing betel leaves.

Though Feluda often teases his young cousin, he is extremely fond and very protective of him.

Feluda's jyatha ( that is, uncle ) is said to have a ' photographic memory ', and is a vast source of information which comes in handy when Feluda is in need of some.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality, as Francis Pendleton Gaines showed forty years ago, and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed.

The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.

His wife, Katie, `` as gay as a lark and as lively as a gazelle '', -- she was then seventy-six, -- had `` a sense of humour that has been denied S.K., but neither has any aesthetic perceptions.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

He had read his poetry with musicians as early as 1951, and his entire career has been characterized by radical experiments with the form and presentation of his poetry.

Even the Distilled Spirits Institute has long had a specific prohibition.

Mr. Truman has only to recall the `` hopeless '' campaign of 1948 to remember what a loyal partisan he was and the first experience of Mr. Kennedy with Congress would have been sadder than it was had not Mr. Sam been there.

The board of suspension of the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered a group of railroads not to reduce their freight rates on grain, as they had planned to do this month.

He jammed it this spring and has had to rest it, but he says the old injury hasn't bothered him.

In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.

-- No doubt there have been moments during every Presidency when the man in the White House has had feelings of frustration, exasperation, exhaustion, and even panic.

The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children, which for 20 years has had the responsibility of coordinating the services of tax supported and voluntary organizations serving handicapped children, of studying the needs of handicapped children in Illinois, and of promoting more adequate services for them, indeed welcomes this new important resource which will help the people of Illinois toward the goal of providing an education for all of its children.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

But a realization that each group has much of substance to learn from the other also developed, and a strong conviction grew that each had insights and dimensions to contribute to ethically acceptable solutions of urgent political issues.