Karnapishachcha

by Bal Phondke

This is a series of stories based on the idea that the police force and the scientist work together to investigate the crimes. Each story is different, each has a different set up, yet all the stories are related to Amritrao and Kaushik.

268 pages, Paperback

Published January 10, 2009

About the author

Bal Phondke is the nom-de-plume of Dr Gajanan Phondke, a leading writer in Marathi. His specialty is science literature (fiction and non fiction). He is credited along with Dr. Jayant Narlikar to have started the science fiction genre of writing in Marathi literature. He has worked as a nuclear biologist at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre from 1962 to 1983. From 1983 to 1989, he was with the Times of India group serving 2 stints as the Editor of Science Today magazine and also as the science editor of The Times of India broadsheet.
He later on served as the director of the Publications and Information Directorate of CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) from where he retired in 1999.

Reviews

[Sahil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dr Kaushik and Commissioner of police Amritrao solves many murder or rape cases with their scientific brain of investigation.While reading the book many times I remembered Byomkesh and Sherlok. Dr. Bal Phondke has unique writing style based on the Indian scenario.