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Dev Kamal Ganguly: The Culture of Crime Pulp Fiction in Bengal
Dev Kamal Ganguly: The Culture of Crime Pulp Fiction in Bengal
The intention of the project is to look closely at those crime thrillers in Bangla which do not have the same recognition as Satyajit Ray's 'Feluda' or Sharadindu Bandyapadhyay's 'Byomkesh' series. The books no longer exist in significant proportions, but they have left a series of questions relevant for cultural study: what made them successful in their good old days; how were the images of the crime, chase, violence etc., portrayed in those books related to the urban phenomena of the big city.