Sujan Dasgupta (1942 â 18 January 2023) was an Indian origin American writer and professor. Outside Academia, he was famous for his fictional Bengali detective character series Ekenbabu. The first story of Ekenbabu series to be published was Manhattane Moonstone in 1991 in Anandamela magazine.
Sujan Dasgupta was born in 1942 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India. He completed his early education in the city before enrolling at Jadavpur University, where he earned a degree in engineering. After completing his studies in India, Dasgupta moved to the United States in the 1960s to pursue higher education. He later received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati around 1970. Following his academic pursuits, Dasgupta joined Bell Labs in the United States, a leading research and development institution.