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Volume-II, Issue-I, September, 2025 |
Received: 02.09.2025 | Accepted: 11.09.2025 | ||
Published Online: 30.09.2025 | Page No: | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.01W.179 | |||
শরদিন্দুর ব্যোমকেশ কাহিনিগুলোর অন্তর্বর্তী সমাজচেতনা রাহুল দে, গবেষক, কটন বিশ্ববিদ্যালায়, গুয়াহাটি, অসম, ভারত |
The Underlying Social Consciousness in
Sharadindu’s Byomkesh Stories Rahul Dey, Research Scholar, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
Criminal tendencies among individuals are not uncommon, they are identified as ‘criminals’ by breaking the fence of well-established principles, rules, reforms or state-specific laws. The police system and intelligence forces have been developed to suppress the crimes that are constantly committed in society. And when a detective proves the crime based on his keen intelligence, logic or assumption and identifies the criminal, then that layered flow of events arouses curiosity with the drama of suddenness. Readers or listeners who are thirsty for stories become interested in listening to such stories. A new genre of social stories is created---detective stories. Social truth is revealed there in a different way. Sharadindu Banerjee was familiar with detective stories from home and abroad. It cannot be said that he did not imitate, there was no assimilation; however, Sharadindu Byomkesh Bakshi is a Bengali character who is deeply involved in Bengali life and culture. His keen observational skills have revealed the mystery of the murder and the psychology of many characters and the contemporary social background. Not only are the characters he creates truth-seekers, but Sharadindu himself seems to have fulfilled the social responsibility of truth-seeking here, in a sense he is also a ‘truth-seeker’. In the discussed article, we will shed light on how Sharadindu's detective stories reveal the socio-economic-political history of the then Bengali society. Among his various literary works, he has completely relied on detective stories to portray the social character of the then post-independence and pre-independence period. | ||
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