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| Author | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pother Kanta or transliterated as Pather Kanta (পথের কাঁটা) |
| Language | Bengali |
| Series | Byomkesh Bakshi |
| Genre | Detective, Crime, Mystery |
| Publisher | P.C. Sorkar and Sons also anthologized by Ananda Publishers |
Publication date | 1934 in hardcover Byomkesher diary and in the Sharadindu Omnibus in 1972 |
| Publication place | India |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 182 pp |
| Preceded by | Satyanweshi |
| Followed by | Seemanto-heera |
Pother Kanta (Bengali: পথের কাঁটা, romanized: Pather Kā̃ṭā, lit. 'A Thorn on the Path') also spelled Pather Kanta, is a detective story written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay featuring the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi and his friend, assistant, and narrator Ajit Bandyopadhyay. It is one of the first forays that Sharadindu took in the realm of creating a mature logical detective moulded in the pattern of Sherlock Holmes in the Bengali language, and one that Bengalis could immediately identify with. As such, it is not as well-drawn out as some of Sharadindu's later works and relies heavily on Sherlock Holmes and Holmesian deductive reasoning for inspiration.