Mani Shankar Mukherjee

The Shahjahan Has No Vacancy; Remembering Sankar, Who Wrote Calcutta Before It Forgot Itself

Mani Shankar Mukherjee, who went by the pen name Sankar, wrote Calcutta into literature with a clerk's eye and a novelist's heart. Across 70 books, he became the conscience of Bhadrolok Bengal. He was 92 and irreplaceable.