The story amply showcases the versatility of the literary genius of the late Suchitra Bhattacharya, whose literary repertoire covers a swathe of genres, from social drama, detective thrillers, belles-lettres, social comedies & dark sarcasm. This story, in particular, revolves around a comic stratagem centered on youthful romantic afflictions and zest to try to make things happen.Rediscover the youthfulness of your restless twenties and flex your humor muscles in this comic conflict...

Suchitra Bhattacharya, a literary icon and perhaps among the most revered women literateur ever, whose repertoire covers a swathe of genres, from social drama, detective thrillers, belles-lettres, social comedies & dark sarcasm, forever remains in our hearts as an epitome of an ageless writer par excellence.This treatise features an intriguing tapestry of existentialism from the immortal pen of the legendary author and covers the shifting dunes of social moorings in its varied shad...

Private investigator Ms. Progyaparomita Mukherjee aka, Mitin heard about a murder case from the deputy commissioner of the detective department – Mr. Anischoye Majumdar, at Kolkata Police HQ Lalbazar. The police chief felt that it was an open and shut case wherein a physically handicapped – Mr. Soumyarup Chowdhury, was supposedly murdered by his wife – Chitralekha. Mitin's gut sense told her something amiss as the police had overlooked some critical considerations although the circumstanti...

প্রজ্ঞাপারমিতা মুখার্জি ওরফে মিতিন মাসি বাংলা সাহিত্যের এক মহিলা গোয়েন্দা চরিত্র। অপরাধ বিজ্ঞান, ফরেনসিক সাইন্স, অপরাধ মনস্তত্ব, নানা রকমের অস্ত্রশস্ত্রের খুঁটিনাটি, এনাটমি, ফিজিওলজি, নানা রকমের আইনের বই, বহু কিছু নিয়েই চর্চা করেন মিতিন। তিনি কারাটে জানেন, সঙ্গে রাখেন রিভলভর আবার রান্নাতেও পটু. তার বোনঝি টুপুর মিতিনের সহকারী হিসেবে সবসময় মিতিনের কেসে সাহায্য করতে চেষ্টা করে. মিতিনের স্বামী পার্থ খাদ্যরসিক ও কল্পনা বিলাসী। পুলিশের ডিআইজি অনিশ্চয় মজুমদারও আসেন মিতিন মাসির কাছে পরামর্শ নিতে। ...

Rachana is the busy housewife of the successful corporate executive Barun. Amid an affluent jet-set lifestyle, the middle-aged couple has been traveling around the world, across continents in their continuous push for greener pastures wherever work responsibilities have taken them to. Abundant financials have given them the confidence and the resource to managing every responsibility in life with elan. That includes arranging for caregiving to aged parents even from long distances or takin...

An upper-middle-class urban household is hosting a get-together among close friends over fine dining. The attendees are representatives of the upwardly mobile, educated class who brag about their general intelligence and bask in their self-belief that they understand anything under the sky ranging from the "Perestroika" to the "Swarovski" with equal elan. The freewheeling discussions during the party oscillate between the macabre of the agrarian distress, to the mellow of fine living, in t...

Subhomoe, a government employee, enjoys a comfortable urban life with his wife and his only son - Laltu. Government services present the dual benefit of job security with scope for illicit income from bribes to the opportunistic. Although regular salary in a Govt job is never sufficient to hoard affluence, additional under-the-table succors often prove enough to lift the lifestyle of the opportunist lot. Subhomoe is one such character who has benefited by boarding the gravy train.S...

One History Professor was busy examining university answer papers in the secluded silence of her apartment when the doorbell rang, snapping her attention. Though irritated, she was surprised to see an unexpected visitor standing outside who happened to be a senior citizen but whose face seemed very familiar.Suddenly the Professor recollected that the visitor was her primary school teacher of the yesteryear, and she welcomed her inside. In the course of the conversation, the Profess...

"Papu" is all set to appear for his kindergarten school admission interview. Anxious parents are sweating it out to ensure needful preparation so that Papu can secure an admit offer in this highly competitive slug-fest where demand for seats outstrips the supply by far. Sense of déjà vu is overwhelming as Papu could not manage in his earlier attempts in some other well-known school admission interviews. Concerned parents are determined this time and intend to curb the child's every tender ...

College lecturer Suvendu is a happy and content middle-class character who has deftly segregated his ideal self from his actual self with a liberal dose of practical considerations relating to bourgeois pursuits and comforts in life. Suvendu employs an underage poor village girl in his household as domestic help but feels contented by the sight of her growing sheen courtesy of the regular food that she receives at his house. For Suvendu, this presents a happy spectacle about his contributi...

The household of Mihir and Shrabani and their teenage daughter is atypical of the Indian urban middle class who survive by the proverbial cutting corners. Owning a flat is the veritable "coming of age" for middle-income families as it presents the allure of escaping from the routine rounds of acrimonious altercations with landlords while suffocating inside the ill-maintained tiny rented accommodations to a coveted corner of much-desired privacy and space.Mihir and Shrabani desperat...

প্রজ্ঞাপারমিতা মুখার্জি ওরফে মিতিন মাসি বাংলা সাহিত্যের এক মহিলা গোয়েন্দা চরিত্র। অপরাধ বিজ্ঞান, ফরেনসিক সাইন্স, অপরাধ মনস্তত্ব, নানা রকমের অস্ত্রশস্ত্রের খুঁটিনাটি, এনাটমি, ফিজিওলজি, নানা রকমের আইনের বই, বহু কিছু নিয়েই চর্চা করেন মিতিন। তিনি কারাটে জানেন, সঙ্গে রাখেন রিভলভর আবার রান্নাতেও পটু. তার বোনঝি টুপুর মিতিনের সহকারী হিসেবে সবসময় মিতিনের কেসে সাহায্য করতে চেষ্টা করে. মিতিনের স্বামী পার্থ খাদ্যরসিক ও কল্পনা বিলাসী। পুলিশের ডিআইজি অনিশ্চয় মজুমদারও আসেন মিতিন মাসির কাছে পরামর্শ নিতে। ...