Mani Shankar Mukherjee, or Sankar, who passed away on Friday morning at a private hospital at the age of 92, embodied all of this and more. Still in his teens, Mukherjee worked as a clerk for the British barrister Noel Frederick Barwell at Calcutta High Court. Mani Shankar babu happened to be in the public relations department of Dunlop, the biggest manufacturer of tyres at the time. “I am deeply shocked and saddened by the passing of the renowned Bengali litterateur Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay (Shankar). He saw the corporate world through the lens of a common man.

Source: The Telegraph February 21, 2026 02:20 UTC