Chitrochor

Byomkesh Bakshi
Rajit Kapur as Byomkesh Bakshi in the TV series of the same name
First appearance	Satyanweshi
Last appearance	Bishupal Bodh
Created by	Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Information
Nickname(s)	Satyanweshi
Gender	Male
Occupation	Private investigator
Title	Satyanweshi
Family	Ajit
Spouse(s)	Satyabati
Children	Khoka
Nationality	Indian

Bomkesh Bakshi is a popular Bengali fictional detective created by Shardindu Bandhopadhay.

As Sharadindu Bandhopadhay most well known charecter Bomkesh Bakshi first appeared as a character in the story Satyanweshi(truthseeker). The story is set in 1931 in the Chinabazar area of Kolkata where a 'non government detective' Byomkesh Bakshi on the permission of the police commissioner starts living in a mess in that area under the pseudonym of Atul Chandra Mitra to probes a series of murders. Most of the stories are written by Sharadindu under the pen name of Ajit who is said to have met Byomkesh in the mess at Chinabazar . Byomkesh Bakshi is described in Satenrishi as "a man of twenty three or twenty four years of age who looked well educated." Later in the story it is known that Byomkesh lives on a three-story rented house at Harrison Road. The only other person, except Byomkesh, is his attendant, Putiram. At the request of Bomkesh, Ajit starts living at the house.It is also known that Bomkesh did not like being called a detective.He thought the word intelligence was not quite suitable for him.Thus he fashioned a new name for himself and had it inscribed on a brass plate in front of his house .The plaque read " Bomkesh Bakshi Satyanweshi (Seeker of Truth)".Unlike other lead character in detective stories Bomkwsh Bakshi marries, ages contemplates buying a car etc. When Sukumar was charged with a murder story "Arthamanartham" byomakesh meet Satyavathi, sister of Sukumar, With whom later his marriage was completed. In the Adim Ripu story, there is some information about Bomckesh's early childhood. His father was a mathematics teacher at school and at home byomakesh Sankhya philosophy practiced, and his mother was the daughter of the house of Vaishnava. Byomakesera when seventeen years old, his father and his mother TB disease died. Afterwards, Bomckesh passed the university with scholarship(jol pani). During Second World War , and after the independence of India, Ajit and his family live in the mess house of Harrison Road. Later, they decided to buy land in Keyatala in south Kolkata and shifted themselves to their new residence. 

Saradindu Bandopadhyay penned down 32 Byomkesh stories from 1932 to 1970 prior to his death, In his early stories Ajit Banerjee is described as his companion cum chronicler of his stories.But in some cases there Ajit also investigates in absence of Byomkesh (Makarshar rosh, ShoiloRahasya), These stories are all written traditional Bengali language but later stories it has been shifted to colloquial (cholite) language.Even it is also found that the later stories are not penned down by Ajit, as because he is much more engaged in publication business.

These stories are not very complicated, but very grasping one with series of events.From the first one Satyanweshi, where byomkesh destroys an international drug racket, to house hold mysteries and crimes like Arthamanartham, Makarshar Rosh etc all are equally enjoyable. Byomkesh gradually ages thorough out the series, and he has a son who is mentioned as Khoka(little boy) in the series, Saradindu doesn't want to continue the Byomkesh stories, that's why he stopped writing byomakesh stories from 1938 to 1951. At that time he was busy in script writing in Bombay.After his return to West Bengal, there is still craving for Byomkesh stories and he wrote Chitra chor in 1951 and gradually so on to 1970, when his last story "Bishu pal badh"(Killing of Bishu Pal) was not completed owing to his untimely death.