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Manik Bandopadhyay was a Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years he produced 36 novels and 177 short-fiction. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (1936), Shahartali (1941) and Chantushkone (1948). Manik Bandopadhyay was born on 19 May 1908 in a small town called Dumka in the district of Santal Parganas in the state of Bihar in India. His real name was Prabodh Kumar Bandhopadhyay. His pen name was derived from his pet name 'Manik'. He was the fifth of the fourteen children (eight sons and six daughters) of his parents, Harihar Bandopadhyay and Niroda Devi. His father Harihar was a government official who travelled across undivided Bengal in connection with his job. This gave Manik to experience life and living of people in different part of Bengal in his early life. Since his childhood Manik was carefree and adventurous. And indeed, he had a sensitive mind. He lost his mother on 28 May 1924 when he was only sixteen and this bereavment left a deep mark in his payche. Since early life he had struggled with poverty and epilepsy. On 3 December 1956, he collapsed and went into a coma. He was admitted to the Nilratan Government Hospital on 2 December where he died the next day. He was 48. His funeral took place at Nimtala crematorium in North Calcutta.