Goyenda Gargi : Bangla Sahityer Ek Protivaban Nari Goyenda/ গোয়েন্দা গার্গী : বাংলা সাহিত্যের এক প্রতিভাবান নারী গোয়েন্দা

Abstract

In the nineties, Tapan Banerjee created his fictional female detective Gargi. Gargi's full name is Gargi Mukherjee. She is a student of the Department of Mathematics at Calcutta University and a mystery solver by passion. Her favourite subjects are country, time and time. She loves to read history and sociology. After enrolling in mathematics, she initially thought of becoming a mathematics professor or teacher. Later, she changed her mind. Before coming to detective work, she was a freelance journalist. She made her first appearance in a detective novel called ‘Ershar Sabuj Chokh’. Detective Gargi has sometimes investigated murders, sometimes recovered valuable documents from old history. She has had to travel to different places to do her detective work. Her husband Sayan has helped her a lot in this regard. She has solved one mystery after another while managing the family. Detective Gargi has an outstanding skill in solving mysteries. Gargi solves all the mysteries with her sharp intellect and infallible guessing power. When society slowly starts getting entangled in a web of mysteries, Gargi sometimes gets involved on his own, sometimes gets hired to solve the mystery. Sometimes, the mystery is created by looking at Gargi. Gargi’s curiosity is very wide. He goes out of his own field in search of many more information, theories and arguments. Sometimes literature, sometimes politics, sometimes economics, political science or philosophical theories are among his hobbies. On the one hand, he handles important positions in the family, office and ‘Paradise’ company, and on the other hand, he identifies the criminal through his hard observation and analysis. Gargi never has to take the help of a gun or a pistol to catch the criminal. He finds the criminal only through observation, speculation, analysis and unparalleled intelligence. He never takes payment from anyone for this. He is not a private detective. Gargi considers helping a person in danger to be his supreme religion. It has always been Gargi’s nature to delve deeply into a subject and analyse it thoroughly.