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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.

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3. www.goodreads.com › author › showSankar (Author of Chowringhee) - Goodreads

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   Shankar's real name is Mani Shankar Mukherjee. 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.

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   • Birth Date: December 7, 1933

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   Jun 7, 2022 · The mobile phone that doubles as his landline kept ringing in novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee aka Sankar’s first floor flat overlooking the busy Bondel Road, once an industrial suburb of the...

   • Location: Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu

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   May 5, 2023 · His father died in 1947, and Mani Shankar Mukherjee or Sankar was forced to roam the streets of Calcutta in search of work.

   • Location: Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu

6. timesofindia.indiatimes.com › times-litfestMani Shankar Mukherjee - Times of India

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   Dec 4, 2019 · Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better known by his pen name, Shankar, is one of the senior most writers in Bengali today. He grew up in Howrah, in West Bengal.

7. www.thehindu.com › society › looking-back-atLooking back at ‘Chowringhee’ by Sankar on Kolkata - The Hindu

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   Jun 24, 2022 · After the success of his first book, Koto Ajanare (The Great Unknown) in 1955, on the workings of the High Court, Mani Shankar Mukherjee or Sankar, as Bengal knows him, began to scout for...

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   Who is Mani Shankar Mukherjee?

   • Shankar's real name is Mani Shankar Mukherjee. 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.

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   Why did Shankar become a barrister of Calcutta High Court?

   • 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. The experience of working under Mr. Barwell provided the material for his first book Koto Ojanare ( কত অজানারে ), translated as The Great Unknown.

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   Did Srijit Mukherji make a film based on 'Shahjahan Regency'?

   • In a testimony to the novel’s continued popularity, director Srijit Mukherji made a film based on it just a year before the pandemic hit Indian shores titled ‘Shahjahan Regency’.

   Chowringhee@60: The iconic book which defined popular Bengali fiction

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   Why did Sankar write Kato Ajanare?

   • Barwell’s death saddened Sankar and he felt as if “the ground beneath my feet had been taken away.” He thought of a fitting tribute for Barwell. When building a statue or naming a road after Barwell proved to be impractical ideas, he took to writing a book in his honour. The result was the novel Kato Ajanare ( The Great Unknown ).

   Review of Sankar’s Dear Reader — A Writer’s Memoir - The Hindu

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9. jaipurliteraturefestival.org › speaker › maniMani Shankar Mukherjee - Jaipur Literature Festival

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   Mani Shankar Mukherjee is the writer of classic novels like Kato Ajanare and Chowringhee. His enormous oeuvre, spanning fiction, non-fiction, travelogues, biographies, and more, continues to be a bestselling one in Bengali and has received both critical and popular acclaim through translations into English and other European and Asian languages.