SANKAR (Mani Sankar Mukherji) is one of Bengal's most widely read novelists in recent times. He has also written several non-fiction best-sellers, including a biography of Swami Vivekananda, to his credit. Two of his novels, Seemabaddha (Company Limited) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman), were turned into films by Satyajit Ray. He lives and works in Kolkata.