Shajarur Kanta
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
| Author | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay |
|---|---|
| Original title | (শজারুর কাঁটা) Shajarur Kanta' |
| Country | India |
| Language | Bengali |
| Series | Byomkesh Bakshi |
| Genre | Detective, Crime, Mystery |
| Publisher | P.C. Sorkar and Sons also anthologized by Ananda Publishers |
|
Publication date
|
1967 in hardcover Byomkesher diary and in the Sharadindu Omnibus in 1972 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 182 pp |
| Preceded by | Chholonar Chhondo |
| Followed by | Benishanghar |
Shajarur Kanta (Bengali: শজারুর কাঁটা) (Lit: The Quill of the Porcupine) is a Bengali mystery novel written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay in 1967. The murderer kills people using porcupine quills thrust from behind into the heart.[1]
Characters
- Byomkesh Bakshi
- Ajit Bandyopadhyay
- Satyabati
- Debasish Bhatto
- Deepa Bhatto
- Prabal Gupta
- Sujan Mitra
- Nripati Laha
- Subhra Ghosh
- Bijoy Madhab Mukherjee
- Kharag Bahadur
- Kapil Bose
Adaptations
Television
- This was one of the stories of 1993 TV series Byomkesh Bakshi titled "Sahi Ka Kanta",[2] that were recreated for broadcasting on Doordarshan, the Indian National Network, by Basu Chatterjee, and immediately went on to become one of the most memorable episodes.
- The story adapted into another TV series in 2014 named Byomkesh, which aired on Bengali channel ETV Bangla.
Film
- A film of same name was made in 1974.
- Another version of the film is made in 2015 with the same name.[3]
