Byomkesh Bakshi

ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী  is a self-proclaimed 'satyanweshi' who acts as a consultant to the Kolkata Police Department. Atul Chandra Mitra

Biography
Byomkesh Bakshi is described in Satyanweshi as "a man of twenty three or twenty four years of age who looked well educated." Later in the story it comes to be known that Byomkesh lives on a three-story rented house at Harrison Road. The only other person living with him, is his attendant, Putiram. At the request of Byomkesh, Ajit starts living at the house with them. It is also mentioned that Byomkesh did not like being called a detective, and the word 'investigator' was even more worse. Thus he fashioned a new name for himself and had it inscribed on a brass plate in front of his house .The plaque read " Byomkesh Bakshi Satyanweshi (The Inquisitor". Unlike other lead characters in detective stories, Byomkesh Bakshi marries, ages contemplates buying a car etc. When Sukumar is charged with murder in the story "Arthamanartham",

Byomkesh meets Satyabati, sister of Sukumar, whom he later marries. In the story Adim Ripu, there is some information about Byomkesh's early childhood. His father Mahadev Bakshi was a mathematics teacher at a school and practised Sankhya philosohy at home while his mother was the daughter of a Vaishnavite. When Byomkesh when seventeen years old, his parents died of TB. Later, Byomkesh passed University with scholarship. During the Second World War, and after the Independence of India, Byomkesh, Satyabati and Ajit live in the mess house of Harrison Road. Later, they decide to buy land in Keyatala in South Kolkata and shift to their new residence.