

Discover everything Scribd offers to offer, including publications and audiobooks from main publishers. After coming back to India, he composed his first detective novel, Kalo Bhramar where his launched his detective character Kiriti Roy. During his stay in England he developed a keen interest in detective stories and met Agatha Christie.

At the age of eighteen he composed his first novel, Rajkumar. He once went to Shantiniketan to seek the blessings of Rabindranath Tagore and took his autograph. After the Partition, his family permanently migrated to Kolkata in 1947.Īs a child Gupta always dreamed of becoming a writer. In his career as a physician he was associated with several hospitals in India. On his return he joined the Calcutta Medical College. After the war, he completed post-graduation in medicine from the United Kingdom, specializing in dermatology. He was posted in Chittagong, Burma and Egypt. During the Second World War, Gupta served as an army doctor and was posted in different parts of the world.

Gupta came from a prestigious Kabiraj family of Itna village under Lohagara police station, in the district of Jessore, presently in the Narail district of Bangladesh. He is the creator of the fictional detective character Kiriti Roy. Nihar Ranjan Gupta (Bangla: নীহাররঞ্জন গুপ্ত) was an Indian dermatologist and a popular Bengali novelist.
