Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় About this sound Manik Bandopadhyay was a Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bengali fiction. During a short lifespan of 48 years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi.