Tatar detective writer creator Sasthipata Chattopadhyay has died Fox News

Chattopadhyay was born in 1941 and debuted in 1961. The most famous cycle is Pandab Goenda, the name of a team of teenage detectives (plus their one-eyed dog) investigating all sorts of mysteries.Pandab Goenda is an Indian version of Enid Blyton’s “The Magnificent Five” and “Five Finders and Their Faithful Dog” series (in Soviet times they were released in Russian). Based on the Sasthipata cycle, an anime series was made.The author’s other two series are “Detective Ambar Chatterjee” and “Goenda Tatars”. In 2019, a film was made based on the latter, in which the Tatars, the repentant thief Suleiman and a group of teenagers investigate mysterious kidnappings of citizens.Chattopadhyay died after suffering a third stroke in a nursing home, reports Ananda Bazar.