Times Now's second article among this site's winners is a celebration: Sunday Suspense at 15 years, marked at the Kolkata Book Fair. This blog has covered the phenomenon from the outside, the Mirchi universe around it. This page counts it from the inside. Our catalogue holds 439 Bengali audio stories, and 195 of them, 44 percent, are Sunday Suspense. By author, the shelf has a clear spine.
The authors of the 195
| Author | Stories |
|---|---|
| Satyajit Ray | 39 |
| Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay | 21 |
| Taradas Bandyopadhyay | 19 |
| Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay | 13 |
| Syed Mustafa Siraj | 10 |
| Premendra Mitra | 7 |
| Hemendra Kumar Ray | 6 |
| Narayan Gangopadhyay | 5 |
Ray first, and it is not close: his short fiction, the ghost stories and the Professor Shanku tales, gives the show its prestige spine. The two Bandyopadhyays after him split the difference between detection and dread, Taradas being Bibhutibhushan's son and literary heir, and Siraj's ten carry the rural uncanny. Of the 195, our records carry a duration for 121, and the median episode runs 37 minutes, a radio hour with the ads long gone.
Listening through the shelf
By author is the order that works. A Ray month first, all 39 in our records, because his stories are the show's grammar. Sharadindu next for the Byomkesh atmosphere without the novel-length commitment, then Taradas, writing in his father's shadow and out of it. Keep the celebrations for the milestones; the shelf itself is the everyday miracle, 195 stories deep in our records alone, against the franchise's own reported 670-plus stories in total. When an episode earns a place on your wall of favorites, the Horror Story Poster Maker turns its title into a poster worth keeping.
Sources: ShunoGolpo story catalogue, 439 records verified September 2026 (195 Sunday Suspense). Franchise totals (670+ stories) are the franchise's own reported figures, via Times Now's Sunday Suspense coverage; the Book Fair celebration is Times Now, Sunday Suspense in Kolkata Book Fair.