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Mani Sankar Mukherjee (commonly known as Sankar in both Bengali and English-language literature) is an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal.
Sankar is a very popular writer in the Bengali language. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal, India. Shankar's father died while Shankar was still a teenager, as a result of which Shankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Calcutta High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell.
Sankar has 141 books on Goodreads with 13283 ratings. Sankar’s most popular book is Chowringhee.
Set in 1950s Calcutta, Chowringhee is a sprawling saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta’s largest hotels, the Shahjahan. Shankar, the newest recruit, recounts the stories of several people whose lives come together in the suites, restaurants, bar and backrooms of the hotel.
Jun 23, 2022 · A landmark Grand Hotel, now called The Oberoi Grand, on Chowringhee, Kolkata. It’s the 60th year of Bengali writer Sankar’s best-selling novel, Chowringhee, and thereby hangs many tales. After...
May 5, 2023 · The intrepid Bengali novelist, Sankar, with a literary career spanning seven decades, calls Dear Reader a whimsical collection of a writer’s life and work.
Dec 30, 2021 · Welcome to the writer's den where famed novelist Sankar (Mani Sankar Mukherji), author of such best-selling works as ‘Kato Ajanare' (The Great Unknown), ‘Chowringhee', ‘Seemabaddha' (Company Limited) and ‘Jana Aranya' (The Middleman), sits and spins stories based on the myriad characters he has met and the society in which they live, into books.
