Mani Shankar Mukherjee

Trivia

• Shankar is a widower and a vegetarian.
• Shankar also is a marketing professional associated with an Indian industrial house.
• In addition to his literary efforts, Shankar is regarded as a street food expert with two books on this topic.
• Shankar marketed his literary work to Bengali households with the marketing slogan "A bagful of Shankar (Ek Bag Shankar)". Collections of his books were sold in blue packets through this marketing effort.
• Noel Barwell introduced Shankar to literature.
• Shankar's father died while Shankar was still a teenager, as a result of which Shankar became a clerk to the last British barrister of the Kolkata High Court, Noel Frederick Barwell.
• Mani Shankar Mukherjee, and generally known in English-language literature as Sankar is a very popular writer in the Bengali language.

Quotes

• "First, I wanted to build a statue. It was not possible. I then wanted to name a road. Even that was not feasible. And then I decided to write a book about him."