‘Chowringhee’ author Mani Sankar Mukherji appointed as the Sheriff of Calcutta

Sankar has been appointed to the post on the recommendation of Calcutta High Court.

By Anuradha Himatsingka, ET Bureau | Updated: Jul 04, 2019, 04.35 PM IST

The Governor of West Bengal has appointed Mani Sankar Mukherji, better known as Sankar, as the Sheriff of Calcutta on the recommendation of Calcutta High Court.

This is one of the oldest positions in the country since the eighteenth century. In 1775, James MacRabey was appointed the Sheriff of Calcutta when Sir Elijah Impey took over as the Chief Justice of Supreme Court in Calcutta.

Almost six decades ago, Mani Sankar Mukherji began his working life as a Barrister’s Babu (clerk) of Noel Barwell, the last British Barrister practising in Calcutta High Court. His first book around the Law Court began shortly after Barwell’s demise in 1953 following a heart attack in Madras while arguing a case in the then Madras. ‘Kata Ajanarey’ by Sankar has, over the years, emerged as a classic in Bengali literature.

Some of Sankar’s well-known creations include ‘Chowringhee’, ‘Jana Aranya’, ‘Company Limited’, ‘Thackeray Mansion’ and ‘The Monk as Man’, ‘The Unknown Life of Swami Vivekananda’.

Born in Bongaon in 1933, Sankar’s father, a lawyer, moved to Calcutta in 1937 and settled in Howrah.

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