Kolkata, Feb. 21 -- Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, known to millions by his pen name Sankar whose works transformed the mundane realities of a fast changing urban life into timeless narratives and were adapted into films by Satyajit Ray, died in Kolkata on Friday. He was 92. The Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer, best known for his iconic novel Chowringhee, died of age-related ailments at a private hospital. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief on the novelist's demise and called him a "towering figure in Bengali literature". "Deeply saddened by the passing of Shri Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay Ji, fondly known as Shankar. He was a towering figure in Bengali literature whose words portrayed the lives of people with sensi...