Ghari Rahasya

Syed Mustafa Siraj's detective story, once read in Anandamela and now preserved in digital form, brought some more nostalgic memories and along with it a thrill for the suspense that seemed promising at first. But it was too quick in the finale and doesn't do justice for a bit old readers. Infact the ridiculous coincidence seemed too much in the story but seemed to be kept just for the sake of justification which I think may have been very well crafted in a different manner. All the same the story will be an addition to my prize collection just for bringing with it the fortnightly that I was once fan of.

Guptadhaner Gujab

As Mitin starts to investigate the rumour of a hidden treasure, albeit Partha's doubt in it, she seems to get more and more interested as the investigations progressed in the semi-dilapidated mansions of the Bagchi's at Nurpur. Amidst the treasure seekers haunting the house quite often, ghostly sounds disturb the residents at night. But what actually is happening behind all these? Mitin is intrigued  by the case and asks Partha to do some research that reveals an ancient crime hidden in the dark chambers of the basement. But is it enough? Is the past crime threatening some revenge? Or is some sinister forces of the present trying to take hold of the mansions? All these the readers may find out once they accompanby Mitin, Tupur and sometimes Partha, in their adventure in the novel set at semi-rural Bengal.

Though Suchitra Bhattacharya's detective novels are quite appealing but for one very disturbing point that lies in the names of the characters. By choosing very unique and sometimes quite extraodrinary names for the characters, Mrs. Bhattacharya seems to make fiction more fictional that is quite undue. Prajnyaparamita (Mitin) is ok and it definitely sets her detective aside the others but starting from Anishchoy Majumdar, the recurring IG character, whose name she now cannot change but can definitely offer some good excuse as to exactly what uncertainty the officer's parents were thinking of while naming him, to the client, her naming standard seems very unreal and this, if not anything else, tries to focus on characters rather than the central mystery.