His unfavourite food items appear to be potol diye singhi maacher jhol (a type of fish curry with Pointed gourd) and bashok patar rosh (the juice of the malabar nut leaf). He was a timid member and suffered from a chronic stomach ailment. Pyalaram (Bengali: প্যালারাম), the narrator of the stories, wrote from the point of view of the writer himself. Other two characters Kybla & Habul were added subsequently and profile of Tenida also evolved. Tenida was created initially to mock his landlord in two stories "Matsya-Puran" & "Khattango O Pallanno". When Bishu Mukherjee approached him for stories for 'Mouchak". Narayan Gangopadyay had a good relation with his landlord, to the extent where the two families were almost family friends. In March of 1946 Narayan Gangopadhyay, shifted to a rented house at Patoldanga,Kolkata, where his Landlord was Shri.Probhat Mukherjee (Tenida). In the story entitled as "Kombol Niruddesh" (Bengali: কম্বল নিরুদ্দেশ ), it is mentioned that he knows Boxing and Judo.In the same story,Tenida knocked down a man of 112 kg weight with a single swirl. The shorthand, used after a person's name, is a mark of respect and acknowledgment of seniority. The suffix da used after his actual nickname Teni is short for dada(elder brother) which is used to initiate conversations with an elderly male stranger in colloquial Bengali. The short stories were extensively based in Calcutta and its suburbs, but the Charmurti traveled to Hajaribag, Duars, Darjeeling where their pleasure trip turned into a series of mysterious incidents. (i) Tenida narrates fabricated stories of his so-called heroism (ii)Tenida & Pyala or all the four are involved in hilarious adventures where the gang goes through interesting situations but solves the mystery at the end. The stories of Tenida are basically two types. The other two characters who formed an integral part of the quartet were Habul Sen, who speaks with strong East Bengali accent (Dhakai) and Kyabla, the cleverest among the four. The narrator of the stories is Pyalaram, who seemed to share his leader's frailty in academic exertions. Descriptions of Tenida's nose also make frequent appearances in the text, being described as " a large nose resembling Mount Mainak". The leader of a group of four young lads who lived in the neighbourhood of Potoldanga, Tenida was depicted as the local big-mouthed airhead, who, although not blessed with academic capabilities, was admired and respected by the other three for his presence of mind, courage, and honesty as well as his vociferous appetite. Tenida as depicted on the cover of the comprehensive collection "Tenida Samagra".īhajahari Mukhujjee (Bengali: ভজহরি মুখার্জী), commonly known as Tenida ( Bengali: টেনিদা) or Teni (see Tenida for da), is a fictional native of Potoldanga in Calcutta, who appears in a number of short stories and larger works of the Bengali author Narayan Gangopadhyay.
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