Mani Sankar Mukherjee (commonly known as Sankar in both Bengali and English-language literature) is an Indian writer in the Bengali language, who also served as the Sheriff of Kolkata.

He worked in various field as typewriter cleaner, private tutor, Hawker for his living.

That impetus led to his first novel, about Barwell,[3] that according to some critics is perhaps the most stimulating -- Kato Ajanare (So Much Unknown).

[4] Around the same time in 1962, Sankar conceived Chowringhee on a rainy day at the waterlogged crossing of Central Avenue and Dalhousie - a busy business district in the heart of Kolkata.

The novel, set in the opulent hotel he called Shahjahan, was made into a cult movie in 1968.