The plaque read "Byomkesh Bakshi: Satyanweshi" (The Inquisitor). Thus he fashions a new name for himself which he inscribes on a brass plate in front of his house. He is fluent in Bengali, Hindi, and English.īyomkesh does not like being called a detective, and thinks the word 'investigator' even worse. He habitually smokes and drinks tea with milk. He travels frequently, and does not own a gun and does not consider himself to be an "expensive helper". He does not live in luxury but possesses numerous books. In the beginning of the stories, Byomkesh Bakshi is described as "a man of twenty-three or twenty-four years of age who looked well educated." Byomkesh is a Hindu and wears mostly a white shirt/kurta with a white dhoti, occasionally draping a shawl. The only other person in his household is his attendant Putiram. Byomkesh later asks Ajit to live with him at his three-story rented house at Harrison Road as his assistant and chronicler. Most of the stories are written from Ajit Kumar Banerjee's perspective, who meets Byomkesh in the mess at Chinabazar. The story is set in 1932 in the Chinabazar area of Kolkata where a 'non-government detective' Byomkesh Bakshi, owing to the permission from the police commissioner, starts living in a mess in that area under the pseudonym of Atul Chandra Niyogi to probe a series of murders. Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's most well known fictional character Byomkesh Bakshi first appeared as a character in the story Satyanweshi ( The Inquisitor). 4 In television, movies and other media.
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