Indeed, in all the stories the readers find that Byomkesh Intended to portray Ajit as a stereotype foil to a super-sleuth. O Baroda, where they go to Munger in Bihar, or Amriter Mrityu, where they go to Baghmari. Most of the stories are centered on Kolkata, except a few like in Byomkesh In all these stories he assists andĪccompanies Byomkesh in his escapades. Living, Byomkesh isn't interested in keeping any contact with them.Ījit narrates all but five of the thirty-three cases which feature Byomkesh. He earned scholarships from universities which enabled him to complete his studies. His relatives never cared to look after him, leaving him to fend for himself. Ajit mentions in Adim Ripu that his father used toīe a mathematics teacher in a local school, while his mother busied herself in reading scriptures. Not much is known about Byomkesh's background and early life. Ajit consents, and since then they live thereĪlong with their devoted servant Puntiram, until in Arthonamortham Byomkesh gets married to Satyaboti With him for the last two weeks he would find it difficult to live alone. Takes Ajit to his own mess in Harrison Road, where he entreats him to stay there with him, saying that after living As a result the mess members are forced to vacate the mess, while Byomkesh In him being accidentally arrested by the police on charge of murder, he ultimately unmasks the criminal, which
Through a series of complicated events, one of which resulted Prevent others from knowing his actual motives there. He initially introduces himself as Atul Mitra to He wrote a further 21 stories, including one, Bishupal Bodh, leftīyomkesh meets Ajit for the first time in the story Satyanweshi. Stopped and published Chitrochor in the same year. On returning to Calcutta in 1951, Sharadindu began writing Byomkesh stories again after friends asked why he had Sharadindu stopped writingīyomkesh stories for 15 years, during which time he lived and worked in Bombay, writing screenplays forīollywood films, including Durga, Kangan and Navjeevan (all 1939).
Published by Calcutta publishers Gurudas Chatterjee and Sons in three collections. By 1936 he had written ten stories, all of which were Sharadindu started writing the stories regularly. Satyajit Ray, Kakababu of Sunil Gangopadhyay, Parashor Barma and Ghanada of Premendra Mitra and Tenida ofĪlthough the story Satyanweshi, in which Byomkesh and Ajit meet for the first time, is often the first story in mostīyomkesh anthologies, the first Byomkesh story written was Pother Kanta in 1932, followed by Seemanto-Heera in Byomkesh is one of the most popular characters in Bengali literature, along with Feluda of At first, he wrote in Sadhu Bhasha, but later he preferred Chalit Bhasha Which remained incomplete due to his death. In all, Sharadindu wrote 33 stories featuring Byomkesh, one of Initially serialized in the literary magazine Basumati, the stories and novels were all eventually published in hardcover editions, the first being Byomkesher Diary. Roy's Jayanta and Nihar Ranjan Gupta’s Kiriti Roy, though in the view point of complexityĪnd importance of crimes, Byomkesh is much more ahead. There are only two other detective characters who can be thought as purely Bengali of that time: Hemendra Kumar Metropolis-the capital of British India until 1911-that has had been thoroughly Indianised. He began to write of them as investigating in an Indian (Byomkesh's associate and narrator) in Pather Kanta in 1932. It was almost as a postcolonial response that Sharadinduīandyopadhyay introduced the Bengali "Bhadrolok" (gentleman) sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Bandyopadhyay In Kolkata which was identifiably the British metropolis.
The stories of Dinendra Kumar Ray's Robert Blake, Panchkari Dey's Debendra Bijoy Mitra or Swapan Kumar's Deepak Chatterjee were almost always set in London or Of the Western (and particularly English) fictional detectives. He was, however, concerned with how the Indian andīengali fictional detectives created between 18 had failed to exist as something other than mere copies Auguste Dupin produced by Edgar Allan Poe. The advocate-turned-littérateur Bandyopadhyay was deeply influenced by Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conanĭoyle, Hercule Poirot of Agatha Christie and Father Brown of G.K.Chesterton as well as the "tales of ratiocination" He is one of the most successful detective characters in Bengali literature.īandyopadhyay once said that these stories can be thought as and read as social novels only. Byomkesh Bakshi (or Byomkesh Baksi) (Bengali: ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী) is a fictional detective in Bengali literatureĬreated by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.