Goenda Ekenbabu

The character Ekenbabu had been introduced in my very young age and though I remembered the general nature of the stories, the character would had gone into oblivion but for the fact that I stumbled upon this while searching from something else in the Book fair stalls. But on the first opportunity I did not buy it, thinking that at this age this may not be the thing I want though the interest was kindled. So after a few years more when I again got curious about it, I think I couldn't help but got hold of the same, surprised to notice that the price hadn't increased (I remembered the price when I first looked upon it).

Thus again Ekenbabu with his typical miserly attitude of everything personal except his intellect seemed to freshen my spirits up. With a touch of slightly mature content, of which the author acknowledges in the backside, the content runs as

• Greenwich Kando
• Dhaka Rahasya Unmochan
• Harappar Shilalipi

Staying as guest to the narrator Bapi and the only frank critic of his nature, Pramatha, Ekenbabu gets involved with mysteries in the US. But sometimes he even solves dormant cases that had occurred long ago but had kept the slight trail alive to be sniffed up by Ekenbabu like in the second one where a single doubt and a group of snaps were enough for the sleuth to unearth a crime comitted months earlier. In these he is helped by his fan cum police Captain Stuart who gets him all the data that he requires. At other times he is seen solving cases on his own, just like while staying at an aquintance's reside ce during his absence in the first of the narratives, where incidents that seemed so ordinary is found to mask a grave evil. But if the client refuses to proceed in certain other instances like the final one, it is Ekenbabu's sheer eagerness to clear the confusions that unearths the truth. Thus the readers will surely enjoy the stories as not only the plots are interesting but also the storytelling is simple devoid of any undue deviations.