The Death Trap Raja Roychowdhury or ‘Kakababu’ is a name that strikes fear in the hearts of all who live in the shadowy world of crime. The ex-bureaucrat’s razor sharp intelligence and feats of breathtaking daring rushes the readers through a maze of spine-chilling mysteries and fearful adventures.
Sunil Gangopadhyay (born 1934) is arguably one of the most popular writers of present day Bengal. Poet, journalist, novelist, script-writer and dramatist - he has been all of these at different times. He began his literary career as a poet and stormed into the arena of the novel with a trendsetter, significantly titled Atmaprakash (self-revelation 1966). After that, he has spun out novel after novel with contemporary Calcutta and its young men and women as their recurrent theme. His novel Sei Samay won the Sahitya Akademi Award for 1985.