Kadambari Devi Suicide Note is Ranjan Banerjee’s mystery novel built around the real and long debated death of Kadambari Devi, the young sister in law of Rabindranath Tagore who died by suicide in 1884. The book uses fictional detection to explore one of Bengali culture’s most haunting unsolved sadnesses.
Sensitive territory, but Ranjan Banerjee handles it with care.