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Ghanada is the great character of great writer Premendra Mitra.

Ghanada (Bengali: ঘনাদা) is a fictional character in Bengali literature created byPremendra Mitra primarily for children and teenagers, though readers of all ages enjoys him. The suffix "da" behind the name "Ghana" commonly means elder brother in colloquial Bengali.

History

Ghanada is a middle-aged, tall and thin fictional character, who first appears in the short story Mosha, which was published in thePuja issue of Alpana (আলপনা) from Deb Sahitya Kutir publishers in 1945 (১৩৫২ inBengali calendar). In the following Puja issues of several magazines, Nuri (1947), Poka(1948), Ghori (1948), Chhori (1949), Machh(1949) etc. were published. Mou-Kaa-Shaa-Bi-Sh Bawnaam Ghanada is the last story written in 1987 and published in the Puja issue ofKishor Jnan Bijnan monthly magazine in that year. In 1984, some Ghanada-fans founded the Ghanada Club[1] at Mitra's residence atKalighat, Kolkata. Siddhartha Ghosh (the writer of Jhantumama) suggested this club inKishor Jnan Bijnan in 1983. Some other members of this club were Rabin Bal andKinnar Roy.

Life of Ghanada

Most of the short stories and novel featuring Ghanada take place at the all-male mess on No. 72, Banamali Naskar Lane in Kolkata,West Bengal where the four young members of the mess Shibu, Shishir, Gour and Sudhir(the narrator) try to trick or please the middle-aged Ghanada in a variety of ingenious ways to force out his stock of unique stories that range from science-fiction, action/adventure to historical conspiracies. In most of his stories, Ghanada himself is the wonderfully wise and wily hero who travels all-round the globe to tackle sinister bad-guys and international conspiracies. Apart from these four, there are two minor recurring characters,Rambhuj the cook and Banowari the all-purpose butler of the mess; also sometimes, a few temporary members have come, such as:Bapi Datta, Sushil Chaki and Dhanu Choudhury . As in Feluda and Tenida, female characters are generally missing in these stories.

But besides the stories taking place in No. 72 Banamali Naskar Lane, Ghanada also features in a number of novels and stories set in regular evening meetings of elderly gentlemen on the side of the Kolkata Lake. In these Ghanada is referred to as Ghanashyam Babu(the suffix Babu in Bengali is similar in usage to the honorific "Mr." in English). The four listeners are: Harisadhan Babu, Shibapada Babu, Ramsharan Babu and Bhabataran Babu. The author's style and approach loses the casual sense and gains a more polished, serious and sarcastically formal aura. In these episodes Ghanada never takes on the mantle of a hero himself (as he does in No. 72 Banamali naskar lane), but instead he fashions his narratives on any one of his illustrious, swash-buckling ancestors. Ghanada's ancestors are shown (except one story) to have influenced highly important historical events like the fall of the Inca Empire or Shivaji's remarkable escape fromAgra in Medieval India. Unlike the mess-time stories, these stories feature heroines and mature scenes while the latters do not. The Lake-side episodes of Ghanada were targeted at an adult reader-base.