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Mani Sankar Mukherjee (commonly known as Sankar in both Bengali and English-language literature) is an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal.
Shankar's real name is Mani Shankar Mukherjee. Sankar is a very popular writer in the Bengali language. He grew up in Howrah district of West Bengal, India. Shankar's father died while Shankar was still a teenager, as a result of which Shankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Calcutta High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell.
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Mani Shankar Mukherjee was born on 7 December 1933 in Bongaon, Bengal Presidency, British India. Mani Shankar is a writer, known for Chowringhee (1968), Ek Je Chhilo Desh (1977) and Jana Aranya (1975).
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- Bongaon, Bengal Presidency, British India
- Mani Shankar Mukherjee
Jun 7, 2022 · The mobile phone that doubles as his landline kept ringing in novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee aka Sankar’s first floor flat overlooking the busy Bondel Road, once an industrial suburb of the...
- Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu
Nov 20, 2018 · Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better known by his pen name, Shankar, is one of the senior most writers in Bengali today. He grew up in Howrah, in West Bengal.
Jun 23, 2022 · After the success of his first book, Koto Ajanare ( The Great Unknown) in 1955, on the workings of the High Court, Mani Shankar Mukherjee or Sankar, as Bengal knows him, began to scout for...
- Kasturi Building, Anna Salai, 859-860, Mount Road, Chennai, 600002, Tamil Nadu
Mani Shankar Mukherjee is the writer of classic novels like Kato Ajanare and Chowringhee. His enormous oeuvre, spanning fiction, non-fiction, travelogues, biographies, and more, continues to be a bestselling one in Bengali and has received both critical and popular acclaim through translations into English and other European and Asian languages.
