Detective Tarinichoron: Newest addition to the plethora of Bengali detectives

Detective novels, journals and films have been staple intellectual food in the Bengali literature landscape since the colonial times.

- Mohul Bhattacharya

Bengalis have been stereotyped as cerebral and inclined towards detection; this same pedigree brings on another sleuth, Detective Tarinichoron Ray. Kaushik Majumdar, after creating "the masonic series", has brought out a focused Tarini short story collection. The book "Detective Tarinichoron" was published by Book Farm in November of 2024.

The book illustrations, the cover and the jacket of the book deserve special attention as they attract and decimate a sense of nostalgia for the old hardcover books found in unknown corners of an old library. The whole aesthetic of the book belongs to a pre-technology-dependent time. The stories are no exception. The character of Tarini is an exception from the discourse of detective fiction prevalent in Bengal. He is poor, lower middle class, and is very rarely comfortable in his surroundings. There are shadows of a private consultant from London and an armchair detective from France, but Kaushik Majumdar says, "It was not a conscious choice, and shadows and inspirations come unknowingly."