![]() ![]() As readers, we are exposed to the political, social and economic turbulence that hit Bengal during that phase. There’s an under-current tension typical to the pre-independence era. The stories featuring Byomkesh Bakshi are not just another type of whodunit detective thrillers. Saradindu Bandopadhyay and his Byomkesh Bakshi Eventually, they get married and have a kid who’s known to the world as Khokha. He meets his future wife Satyaboti during one of the investigations where her brother is considered a suspect. Byomkesh belongs to that rare breed of detectives in literature who gets married and starts a family. Instead, he prefers to call himself as Satyanweshi (the one in search of the truth). This dhoti-kurta clad resident of Harrison road in Kolkata has his man Friday named Putiram and abhors the term private investigator or detective. This is where he is shown to meet his future housemate, friend, and novelist, Ajit who eventually decides to pen down Byomkesh’s cases in the form of stories. He appeared in disguise under the pseudo-name of Atul Chandra Sen in the novel ‘Satyaneshwi’. The author’s sudden demise left the last story ‘Bishupal Badh’ in the Byomkesh series incomplete.īyomkesh was introduced to the literary world as a private investigator on a mission to bust a drug racquet in colonial India. Most of these stories have been translated into English recently. Originally written in Bengali, the stories/novels of Byomkesh were published in the form of a collection titled ‘Byomkesh Samagra’ in 1995. ![]()
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