Birth and family identity: Syed Mustafa Siraj was born on 14 October 1930 in Khoshbaspur village in Murshidabad district to an aristocratic and Muslim family. He was born into a family where education and literary culture were a beautiful environment. Not only that, Arabic-Persian culture and other languages were also practiced in his family. The author's mother Anwara Begum was a famous poet. That is why Siraj learned to taste literary juices with his heart from his childhood.
Student life: Syed Mustafa Siraj passed matriculation in 1947 from Gopalpur Muktkeshi Vidyalaya of the present district. He then graduated from Krishnanath College, Bahrampur. He became interested in reading books from school life.
Career: At the beginning of his youth, Syed Mustafa Siraj became associated with the leftist movement. It was on this basis that he joined the folk drama troupe 'Alcap' in 1950. In that group he played the flute and trained in folk drama and folk dance. According to this group, he traveled to different parts of rural Bengal and got acquainted with the society and economy in those places. In the course of this work he used to travel to different districts of Bengal like Murshidabad, Malda, Burdwan, Birbhum and even Calcutta. Until 1956, Siraj performed all night on behalf of Alcap's team. This experience influenced his later writing.
Later, Siraj's attitude changed. He feels that there is a bigger world around him. Of course he already started writing poems and short stories. His first story 'Kachi', written under the pseudonym Iblis, was published in 'Supravhat' in Bahrampur in 1950. In the same year, his poem 'Shesh Abhisar' was published in 'Patrika'. In 1972, his story 'Love and Down Train' was published in the weekly Desh. In 1984, he joined Bhandar. Along with this, his story writing also continues. Then, in 1986, his first novel, The Blue House Girl, was published, and he gradually rose to fame as a novelist. In 1971 he joined Anandabazar.
Literary work: Throughout his life he has written about 150 novels and about 300 short stories. These include 'Intipisi and Ghatbabu', 'Love and Down Train', 'Herdsmen of Hijl Bill', 'Eyes of Tarangini', 'Birth of Man', 'Battlefield', 'Expectation of Blood', '-' and other illusory people. , 'Amartya Premakatha', 'Nishi Mrigaya', 'Krishna Bari Fereni', 'Trinabhumi', 'Nayakantir Nayak' and 'Uttar Jahanbi' are notable novels. Many of his novels and short stories have been translated into every eighth language of the country and into English. He has also written several novels and short stories.
Syed Mustafa Siraj is the creator of the detective character 'Detective Colonel'. The detective stories he has written for children and teenagers with this character have brought him to the pinnacle of fame.
Honors and Recognitions: Syed Mustafa Siraj has been awarded many prizes and honors. In 1979, he received the 'Ananda Puraskar'. He won the Bankim Award for his most popular novel, Alik Manush, and the Academy Award for Literature (1994). He received the Narsingh Das Smriti Award for his novel Amartya Premkatha (198). In 2010, he received the Vidyasagar Memorial Award.
End of life: This scholar died on September 4, 2012 at the age of 82. Syed Mustafa Siraj will be remembered in the history of Bengali literature as a writer of distinct genres and as the creator of the character of the detective colonel.
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