My Take - Topser Notebook by Koushik Majumdar
Topser Notebook by Koushik Majumdar is a fictional biography of Prodosh C. Mitter a.k.a Feluda as well as his family history purportedly written by his nephew Topesh Ranjan Mitra a.k.a Topshe. It is in the form of Topshe’s personal diary and begins by presenting the details of their family history. The diary also gives the readers the glimpses to the hitherto unknown cases solved by Feluda. It is basically a fan fiction which tries to assert Feluda and the other characters related to him as real flesh and blood humans by dismissing the fictitious nature of these characters. I think it is a praiseworthy attempt by the author and as far as I know a pioneering attempt as well, at least on a major scale (as a published book). It took me a little while to get the hang of the writing style. Initially I found it a little haphazard and incongruent but gradually it started making sense. I found the initial few sections to be a little drag, however by the time I reached the middle of the book