Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Born	(1899-03-30)30 March 1899 Jaunpur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died	22 September 1970(1970-09-22) (aged 71) Pune, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Writer
Language	Bengali
Alma mater	Vidyasagar College
Notable works	Byomkesh Bakshi

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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was an Indian Bengali-language writer.^[1] He was actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Sharadindu composed stories of a wide array of varieties including: novels, short stories, crime and detective stories, plays and screenplays. He wrote historical fiction like Kaler Mandira, Gourmollar (initially named as Mouri Nodir Teere), Tumi Sandhyar Megh, Tungabhadrar Teere, Chuya-Chandan, Maru O Sangha (later made into a Hindi film named Trishagni), Sadashib series and stories of the unnatural with the recurring character Baroda. Besides, he composed many songs and poems.^[2]