Several novels for young adults by the renowned Bengali writer, Sunil Gangopadhyay, feature Kakababu, who solves mysteries on the basis of his immense knowledge, and his skill at several things. Kakababu was once in the archaeological survey of India, and so he has travelled to various parts of India, as well as outside. It is when he is in Afghanistan that he loses one of his legs, but this is no impediment to his detecting skills, assisted as he is by his able young nephew, Santu. Kakababu first appears in Sunil Gangopadhyay’s the deadful Beauty. This and another book, the King of the Verdant Island, have recently appeared in an English translations published by the Kolkata based Ponytale Books. Ponytale already made a mark by its translations of Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s books for children. Kakababu first appeared in Bengali fiction first in the early 1970s, when Nirendranath Chakraborty who was at the time editor of Anandmela, a Bengali children's monthly, asked Gangopadhyay ...
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