Manik Bandyopadhyay

Prabodh Kumar Bandyopadhyay, known as Manik, was born on 19 May 1908 in Dumka, in the Santal Parganas; his father, a surveyor who became a sub-collector, was transferred all over Bengal. He abandoned the mathematics degree at Presidency College after the success of his first short story, published in 1928, taught, and worked as an editor and in advertising. A reader of Freud and Marx, he joined the Communist Party in 1944. Epileptic and without means, he wrote nearly forty novels and hundreds of short stories, and died in Calcutta on 3 December 1956.

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• NovelPadma River Boatmanপদ্মা নদীর মাঝিManik Bandyopadhyay · 1936Literature