Sharadindu Bandyopadhay’s Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries, featuring the expert inquisitor Byomkesh Bakshi, started a new era in Bengali popular literature. Set in Raj-era Calcutta, these stories starring the astute investigator and his chronicler companion Ajit are as riveting and amusing today as they were when they first appeared.
Byomkesh’s world is fascinating because of its present flavour, with superbly characterised characters and a brilliantly depicted pre-Independence metropolitan atmosphere.
The stories, now available in English for the first time in a magnificent translation, will captivate every fan of crime fiction, young and old.
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Mishul Das
Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay was born in March 1899 to Tara Bhushan and Bijaliprabha Bandyopadhyay at his maternal grandparents' home in Jaunpur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India). The Bandyopadhyay family's residence was at Purnia, Bihar, India, his father Tara Bhushan’s workplace, but the family originally hailed from Baranagar, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He completed his matriculation in 1915 at a school in Munger. He wrote his first story, "Pretpuri," a Boroda story, when he was only 15 years old. After matriculation, he joined Vidyasagar College, Kolkata. Sisir Bhaduri, the doyen of Bengali stages, was his English professor there. After completing graduation, he went on to study law in Patna. He was only thirty years old when he gave up his practice and started working as a writer.
