вЂњThe early works like that of Priyanath Mukhopadhyay and Panchkori De can be noted for having given birth to the genre, but todayвЂ™s readers wonвЂ™t be interested in stories that had a primitive treatment and cramped style and language,' says Dipankar Mukhopadhyay. Jayanta, the detective that Hemendra Kumar Roy introduced, was among the first to don the traditional attire of dhuti-panjabi, though his investigative methods bore traces of the work of Edgar Allan Poe and, invariably, Conan Doyle. IвЂ™d like to remind readers the obvious: Saradindu, was a politically-incorrect writer in a politically-incorrect, colonial age.Author and film-maker Dipankar Mukhopadhyay. There are also passages in the story which modern post-colonial and feminist readers may find somewhat paternalistic and condescending especially when referring to Satyabati and Phanibhushan. In the end, Phanibhushan decides to kill himself instead of handing himself over to the authorities and admittedly this seems a bit contrived to modern readers. It turns out that Phanibhushan, the very well-read, but crippled youngest brother of the trio is the perpetrator. Murderer, Sukumar, is not, and this is evident in part because the evidence is too neatly stacked up against him. However, she is by far, the most interesting of the characters in Arthamanartham and she displays exhibits exceptional poise in order to protect her brother, Sukumar, who turns out to be the prime suspect once key evidence such as a modified will, and bottle of chloroform are found in his room. I suspect many readers who are not familiar with this story will know this and end up eliminating her name from the list of suspects. The story also has introduces the readers to Satyabati, who of course, Byomkesh later gets married to. If Sherlock Holmes had his impediments from Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard, then Byomkesh certainly had his from Lalbazar! The story also presents a whole range of characters who make it interesting such as the police officer, Bidhubabu, whose incompetence is only matched by his dislike for Byomkesh. The other two suspects were the children of the victimвЂ™s sister-in-law, Sukumar and Satyabati. The five suspects who fell in this category included the victimвЂ™s three nephews, Matilal Kar, Maniklal Kar, and Phanibhushan Kar- all uneducated brothers with no source of income who would definitely benefit from a windfall. The fact that the victim was very short-tempered and in the habit of frequently changing his will made it possible that anyone who could inherit his estate would have a motive to commit the crime. As Byomkesh determines later in the story, the victim was chloroformed in his sleep and killed by the insertion of a sewing needle multiple times between his medulla oblongata and vertebra, a curious choice that would indicate that this was a premeditated murder and that the culprit had at least some knowledge of medical procedures. Karali Charan Basu, a wealthy Bengali, with no direct heir, has been murdered in his sleep. Sarandindu also displays remarkable economy in setting the stage: the murder is established in the sixth sentence of the story. In this story, Byomkesh demonstrates his knowledge with important factors associated with homicide investigation that are taught to modern forensic researchers such as motive, modus operandi, time of death, condition of corpse, crime scene, and statements of the prime suspects. How can someone seemingly brilliant like the medical student, Sukumar, make numerous idiotic mistakes in committing a premeditated murder? This is the question that perplexes Byomkesh Bakshi in Saradindu BandyopadhyayвЂ™s story Arthamanartham (а¦…а¦°а§Ќа¦Ґа¦®а¦Ёа¦°а§Ќа¦Ґа¦®а§ЌвЂЊ) and it is one that resonates with readers.ДЄrthamanartham is a magnificent story that demonstrates SaradinduвЂ™s skill at the top of his oeuvre.

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