30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur
WRITER
Surender Mohan Pathak is India’s highest-selling crime writer with 298 Hindi novels to his name. His writing career began with his Hindi translations of James Hadley Chase and The Godfather. His first short story, Sattavan Saal Purana Admi (The Man who Existed 57 Years Ago), was published in Manohar Kahaniyaan, an extremely popular magazine of its time. His first novel, Puraane Gunaah Naye Gunahgaar (Old Sins, New Sinners), was published in 1963 in another widely read magazine, Neelam Jaasoos. He then began publishing a series of novels with investigative journalist Sunil Chakravarty as its protagonist and the series running into 100 books. Another popular hero created by Pathak for his second series, the Sudhir Series, is private detective Sudhir Kohli. The Jeet Series features a petty thief who has taken to crime driven by a heartbreak. However, Pathak’s most loved novels come from the Vimal Series whose hero Sardaar Surendra Singh Sohal is a gangster with a conscience. Published in 1970, his novel Paisath Laakh Ki Dakaiti (The 65 Lakh Heist) was a blockbuster that has sold about 250,000 copies till date. Pathak’s novel Colaba Conspiracy was voted the most popular book on AmazoN in 2014. His latest, Heera-Pheri, topped the Nielsen Hindi charts in November 2017. His books have sold millions of copies, and he has a huge fan base across the Hindi heartland.
