Manoj Basu

Bengali novelist; story credit on Naram Garam · 1901–1987

Manoj Basu was a major Bengali novelist and short-story writer, born in Jessore, now in Bangladesh, whose fiction dealt with rural Bengal and with ordinary people's struggles. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award for the novel Nishi Kutumbo. He is credited with the story of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Naram Garam (1981), the comedy about an astrology-obsessed miser who falls for a girl whose name begins with the letter his astrologer told him to look for.