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Arjun is a young
fictional detective Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction. These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories. Much of early detective fiction was written during the ...
character of
Bengali literature Bengali literature ( bn, বাংলা সাহিত্য, Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time ...
. He lives at
Jalpaiguri Jalpaiguri is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Jalpaiguri district as well as of the Jalpaiguri division of West Bengal, covering the jurisdiction of the five districts of North Bengal. The city is loca ...
in
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The character was created by
Samaresh Majumdar Samares Mazumdar ( bn, সমরেশ মজুমদার, born 10 March 1944) is an Indian Bengali writer from West Bengal, India. He is best known for his Animesh series of novels, the second of which (''Kalbela'') won the Sahitya Akadem ...
in 1983. Arjun's mentor is retired official cop, Mr. ''Amal Shome''. Although Arjun himself solves the cases but he works most of the time as an assistant of Shome.


Books of Arjun series


Adaptations

* Based on ''Sitaharan Rahasya'' and ''Khunkharapi'', a film was released in 2013 named '' Arjun: Kalimpong E Sitaharan.''. A Hindi tele-serial was released as ''Jungle Ki Gaherai Mey'', based on Arjun novel, ''Derdin''.
Kaushik Sen Koushik Sen (born 19 September 1968) is an Indian actor of film, television and theatre based in Kolkata. He is the director of the well-acclaimed theatre group Swapnasandhani. He has won the BFJA awards for best supporting actor for his perfor ...
played the role of Arjun. * On 18 July, 2022,
Radio Mirchi Radio Mirchi (also known as 98.3 Mirchi) is a nationwide network of private FM radio stations in India. It is owned by the ENIL, EntertainmentNetwork India Ltd (ENIL), which is one of the subsidiaries of The Times Group. ''Mirchi'' is Hindi f ...
Kolkata (98.3 MHz) station aired the story ''"Der Din"'' on the ''Sunday Suspense'' show. The charecter of Arjun was voiced by Indrashish Roy.


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Further reading

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