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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.
Shankar Shanmugam (born 17 August 1963), credited as S. Shankar or his mononym Shankar, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who works predominantly in Tamil cinema. He is one of the highest grossing film directors in Indian cinema.
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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Sankar has 141 books on Goodreads with 13283 ratings. Sankar’s most popular book is Chowringhee.
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...
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...
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.
