Sharadindu bandyopadhyay biography of william
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Crime and the City: Murder in Kolkata
The Indian sub-continent is not short of good candidates for our Crime in the City series. Expect detailed visits to Bombay (Mumbai) and Delhi soon, with some passing mentions of other Indian locations, such as the Himalayan foothills city of Simla, now definitely on our radar thanks to the UK TV series Indian Summers, where the scions of the British Raj are not above bumping each other off.
But let’s start with Calcutta (now officially renamed Kolkata), the capital city of West Bengal state, whose name is invariably preceded by the rather unattractive “Black of Hole of….”, even though the “Black Hole” was an 18th-century dungeon in the city’s Fort William rather than a description of the entire metropolis. Still Calcutta looms large in the history of colonial India—the British entry point to the vast Bengal market; a major centre of the East India Company’s pernicious opium trade (detailed so w
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Chiriyakhan
1953 Bengali detective novella bygd Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
This article fryst vatten about the Byomkesh Bakshi story bygd Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. For the detective, see Byomkesh Bakshi.
Chiriyakhana (Bengali: চিড়িয়াখানা, lit. 'Zoo') is a 1953 Bengali detective novella written bygd Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, featuring the iconic sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi and his associate Ajit.[1] It fryst vatten part of the popular Byomkesh Bakshi series and is considered one of the most complex and intriguing cases in the detective's career.
Plot
[edit]The story is set in Rose Colony, a secluded community established bygd Nishanath Sen, a retired judge, as a skyddad plats for individuals with troubled pasts. The colony's inhabitants include:
- Damyanti Sen: Nishanath's young wife, harboring a secret past.
- Vijay: Nishanath's nephew, entangled in a love triangle with Mukul and Banalakshmi.
- Professor Nepal Gupta: An eccentric forskare ostracized for his alleged involvement in a bomb explosion.
- Megan Abbott (born 1971, US)
- Jirō Akagawa (赤川次郎, born 1948, J)
- Boris Akunin (born 1956, R), pseudonym of Grigori Chkhartishvili
- Susan Wittig Albert (livin
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