Satyanweshi ( bn, সত্যান্বেষী) also spelled Satyanveshi, (Lit: ''The Truth Seeker'') is a

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story written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay featuring the

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detective Byomkesh Bakshi and his friend, assistant, and narrator Ajit Bandyopadhyay. It is the first Byomkesh adventure written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.

Plot

Ajit Bandyopadhyay lives in a

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, along with some other people. Ashwini Babu and Ghanshyam Babu are two of the hostel inmates; they live next to Ajit. The hostel is run by a philanthropic homeopathic doctor, Anukul Babu. Ajit has recently become aware of some murders that have happened in their locality. They seemed to have been done by the same person, possibly a serial killer. One morning a young man named Atul Chandra Mitra comes to Anukul Babu, looking for a vacant room in the hostel. Anukul Babu informs him that there is no vacant room currently available in the hostel. Ajit was sitting nearby and offered to share his room with Atul. Atul is gratified. He even offers to pay the entire rent which Ajit accepts. One night Ashwini Babu is murdered and Atul gets arrested. But after sometime he is released, without any explanation. That night the murderer of Ashwini Babu tries to kill Atul and Ajit, but he fails. The real killer gets arrested, who is Anukul Babu. He has been doing the business of

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behind

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. Ashwini Babu came upon the secret and thus had to be killed. After that, it is revealed to Ajit that Atul Chandra Mitra is really Byomkesh Bakshi who has assumed an alias to know the truth behind the chain of murders. Byomkesh takes Ajit to his home and they begin living together in the former's house with a servant, Punti Ram.

Characters

* Byomkesh Bakshi (Atul Chandra Mitra) * Ajit Kumar Bandopadhyay * Punti Ram * Dr. Anukul Babu * Ashwini Kumar Chodhury * Ghanshyam Babu * Police Commissioner *Servant *Inspector

Adaptations

Radio

* The ''Sunday Suspense series'' of ''98.3 Radio Mirchi (Kolkata)'' adapted this novel as radio drama, voiced by

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, RJ Deep and Richard.

Television

* This was one of the stories of 1993 TV series '' Byomkesh Bakshi'', that were recreated for broadcasting on

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, 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 Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali fictional detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring to himself as a "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in the stories, Bakshi is known for his proficiency with observation, logical reasoning, and fo ...

'', which aired on Bengali channel

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Film

* 2015

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film ''

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! ''Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!'' is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language mystery action thriller film directed by Dibakar Banerjee, and produced by Banerjee and Aditya Chopra. The story is based on the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi created by the B ...

'' is mainly based on this story.Dibakar Banerjee said he wanted a villain who can give competition to Byomkesh.
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References

External links

Byomkesh Quiz 1 – Satyanveshi (সত্যান্বেষী)
{{Byomkesh Bakshi 1934 short stories Detective fiction short stories Indian Bengali-language novels Indian mystery novels Culture of Kolkata Byomkesh Bakshi