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Satyajit Ray. Adrish Bardhan. Premendra Mitra. Dilip Roy Chowdhury. Familiar names right? But did you know that they all once collaborated on a #scifi story in 1966? A landmark in #IndianSF, because it& #39;s perhaps the 1st instance of a shared universe in this part of the world.
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It was called Sabuj Manush (Green Men) & took the form of a radio broadcast. Instead of original plan of one single story told in many parts, each of the writers decided to write a standalone story set in the same shared universe and was broadcast on @AkashvaniAIR in Feb, 1966
The background to Green Men is that the titular alien race is making behind-the-scenes changes to Earth society to control it. In the first story, by Ghanada-creator Premendra Mitra, the protagonist meets a man who warns him about green men creating trouble across the world.
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The second story is by Adrish Bardhan–who coined the term Kalpabigyan–in which a person writes to him about finding documents, containing nefarious plots, left behind on a train by a green-skinned man.
In Dilip Roy Chowdhury& #39;s story, an Indian scientist comes across upon disturbing information at a pharma company in New York, which is researching a tranquiliser that can eliminate & end communal hatred.
The final story is by Satyajit Ray, in which a professor professes to meeting super-humans who pour scorn on, and dismiss, any dreams of world peace because they& #39;re planning to take control of the world themselves. Now, none of the writers knew what the others were writing!
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The broadcast was a success by all accounts and re-broadcast multiple times. And thanks to the good folks at Kalpabiswa magazine, Bengalis have been able to read it. And now i come to the reason behind this thread...
Sabuj Manush (Green Men) by Premendra Mitra, Adrish Bardhan, Dilip Roy Chowdhury & Satyajit Ray is finally here in English! Translated by Arunava Sinha. So those of us who can& #39;t read Bengali can also enjoy this landmark #IndianSF story. Here you go: https://www.amazon.in/Green-Men-Satyajit-Ray-ebook/dp/B09379WPCN/
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