13 Facts About Manik Bandopadhyay

Manik Bandopadhyay was born on 19 May 1908 in Dumka, a small town of Santhal Parganas district in the state of the then Bihar in British India in a Bengali Brahmin family of Harihar Bandyopadhyay and Niroda Devi.

Manik Bandopadhyay was named Prabodh Kumar, but was known mostly by his nickname Manik.

Parents had fourteen children and Manik Bandopadhyay was fourth of the six sons with all four elder sisters.

Romantic in nature, Manik Bandopadhyay could sing well and play flutes from early in his life almost till death.

Manik Bandopadhyay was much inclined to literature and had read some Bengali masterpieces at an early age.

Manik Bandopadhyay differed and took the challenge with a bet and replied that his first story would be good enough for the purpose.

Manik Bandopadhyay wrote his first story "Atasimami", a romantic love story based on his early life experience of an older couple, a clarionet player and his wife, and went straight to the office of the then renowned monthly Bichitra.

Manik Bandopadhyay handed over the story to the deputy editor present there without even asking when to come next to know the fate of the story.

Never a well-off person, Manik Bandopadhyay had to struggle throughout his life to maintain his family along with wife Kamala Bandyopadhyay.

Manik Bandopadhyay finally joined the Communist Party of India in 1944 and remained a member until his death.

Manik Bandopadhyay wrote his first novel Dibaratrir Kavya at the age of 21.

Manik Bandopadhyay had 16 books of short stories published during his lifetime.

Manik Bandopadhyay Bandyopadhyay is one of very few Bengali authors whose works have been translated into so many Indian, English, and other languages abroad.