Eighty-eight-year old Mukhopadhyay, writer of classics Manojder Adbhut Bari , Manabjamin, Patalghar among others, said writing are reflection of grey things in real life, writings are responses of queries to one s inner self about life and surroundings "which we jot down on papers.
Kolkata: Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata has awarded honorary Doctor of Literature degree to industry doyen Ratan Tata and a host of renowned personalities from diverse walks of life at its inaugural convocation in Kolkata.
Other personalities who have been awarded are Chandra Sekhar Ghosh, Manishankar Mukherjee, Sanghamitra Bandopadhyay, Martin Kampchen and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan.
Originally published as Eka Eka Ekashi in Bengali and translated into English by Arunava Sinha, chronicles this chance rise of Sankar from a clerk to becoming one of India’s foremost Bengali authors.