Ajit Bandyopadhyay (character) - Relation With Byomkesh

Relation With Byomkesh

Ajit's relation with Byomkesh is one of unalloyed love and brotherly affection, as he himself points out in Durgo Rohosshyo. He greatly respects Byomkesh for his superb faculties and investigative skills, and never refrains from extolling to others his wisdom and virtues. He is surprised when Byomkesh falls in love with Satyabati and decides to marry her; perhaps he expected that Byomkesh too will live a bachelor's life. However after they get married, he decides to leave, because he considers it his duty to allow the newly wed couple privacy and scope to let their marriage blossom. But they do not let him leave, and hence they continue to live together. He teaches Byomkesh how to play chess, but in a matter of days Byomkesh defeats him, which leads him to lose confidence in his intelligence. He takes solace in the fact that it was he who taught Byomkesh chess in the first place, his success thus is no more his than his. Whenever Byomkesh and his wife dispute over the question of superiority of male or female, he takes Byomkesh's sides, though admittedly for the losing cause mostly. He cannot bear the thought of living without Byomkesh, so much that when in Amriter Mrityu Byomkesh enters a house that is the site of a life claiming bomb-explosion just a few minutes ago, Ajit follows him into it even though Byomkesh instructed him to stay outside, thinking that if death is lurking inside, they might as well die together.
In Amriter Mrityu, Byomkesh asks Ajit to interrogate the wife of one of the suspects, telling him he himself cannot do it as he has other pressing matters to attend to. Ajit is initially stunned at this assignment; he enjoys the astuteness with which Byomkesh often interrogates, but having never done that himself, he does not quite feel himself equal to the task. While this might suggest that Byomkesh does this because he believes Ajit is now competent enough to conduct a simple interrogation, as the story unfolds, it looks like he did this more to keep Ajit away from the proceedings he was going to institute than to get some clue from the aforementioned interrogation, for it is clear from Byomkesh's narration that by that time he was fully aware of who the culprit is, and those proceedings were in fact to ensure that he was correct in his judgement. The author never explains it, but it can be surmised that it was due to his habit of not letting Ajit into the denouement until the last moment. However this is in contrast with the fact that he explained the entire business to Ajit that very night, something he never does.
Though Ajit does not mention it, or perhaps fails to note it, Byomkesh also loves Ajit like his own brother. When he is kept under house arrest for no reason at all in Heyalir Chhondo, Byomkesh becomes very angry, and he severely deplores the police officer who did so. Ajit himself mentions that they find it difficult to have tea without the company of the other.