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Intercut with the murder mystery are observations on class and caste differences, the alienation inherent in big-city living, and the dual natures of people – though of course these musings don’t preclude an exciting denouement featuring a bulletproof vest and Byomkesh using his “iron fist” to knock out a criminal. As the plot unfolds, we realise that the murders are in some way connected to the lives of an unhappily married couple and a group of disparate characters who meet each evening for social chit-chat.

“The Quills of the Porcupine” centres on a seemingly random series of murders, each perpetuated with a porcupine quill, each victim belonging to a different class of society. In fact, Byomkesh makes his entry quite late into the story, and only after we as readers already know nearly all the facts of the case. This novella is a classic example of how Bandyopadhyay became more ambitious in his later work, eschewing the traditional narrative format and turning his gaze to a larger canvas. “The Quills of the Porcupine”, which was one of the last Byomkesh stories to be published.

Science is about emotions and human interactions, and that is what this book is about.The Quills of the Porcupine (Shajarur Kanta) : Author Nevertheless, I hope I have portrayed accurately the emotions that motivated me to study crocodiles and their relatives. Occasionally I will have gotten the chronology wrong. Many people helped me on my journey, and I hope I can do justice to most, but memory is fallible, and I will certainly have omitted influential persons and forgotten important facts. Eric Pianka’s fame as a community ecologist is rooted in love of deserts and desert lizards. Charles Darwin’s ideas on evolution were forged during an around-the-world adventure. However, his words continue to excite the imaginations of young naturalists, and his book is an example of honest story telling that no scientific paper can match. That was a long a time ago, and Tony has passed on to that great river in the sky where presumably all great crocodilian biologists go. Tony Pooley wrote a wonderful book about his journey to becoming one of the foremost experts on crocodilian behavior, and Tony encouraged me to write an honest account of what makes a crocodile biologist tick. It presents a logical argument for why you should have done the research, not the real reason, or even the true sequence of events that led to the results. As Sir Peter Medawar stated honestly in a BBC Broadcast in 1964, the scientific paper is a fraud. I have been first author or co-author on many scientific papers on crocodiles and caimans, but those papers will not give insights into the real reason that I was involved in the studies.

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