Saturday, January 05, 2013

Harano Diaryr Khonje


Bimal Kar’s detective other than Kikira, used to bore me with maybe his only appearance in the novel Harano Diaryr Khonje but for the fact that I was somewhat optimistically biased about Bimal Kar in recent days that I again took up the ebook to refresh my memory about the story which I’d once read in Anandamela. To say that it felt excellent would be not true but the adventure or the slow evolution of the plot seemed now to be so akin to traditional detective novels which I’m sure I was not matured to appreciate at my younger days. But the slowness of the pace seemed to get the better of the story and the climactic revelations that ought to be more splendid seemed not so astounding. It is more of a standard adventure story than detective but for the last two pages, where suspense was created very rapidly and there too detection never seemed a prime motive and so the readers can enjoy Kar’s easy paced storytelling but for the fans of stories involving true investigators this may not be so much of an enthusiastic choice.

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