Misir Ali

Misir Ali (Bengali: মিসির আলি) is a fictional psychiatrist character in a series of novels by Bangladeshi author, Humayun Ahmed. He was described as a "famous character" in "Bengali literature, TV and film over the last three decades."

In the books, Ali plays the role of a part-time professor of Psychology at the University of Dhaka. Despite his not being a professional psychiatrist, people come to him for psychiatric treatment because of his special interest and knowledge in parapsychology.Later he was expelled out from the University. Misir Ali is a very intelligent person and often seen solving mysteries, although never accepting money for them. He is a logical person and doesn't believe in any paranormal activities. He has a personal diary named unsolved,in which he writes about those mysteries not solved by him. He is black, tall, thin person but in other story it was mentioned that he is short.

He always lives in a small flat with a servant. Most of the time those servants are seen to be run away by stealing his money. His age in 'Nishithini' was 41 and in 'Misir Ali's Amangsito Rahayso' his age is 51. He has a nephew named Amita. His mother died when he was two years old. His father was a Hujur (Muslim priest), who died when he was in class five. He grew up in his relatives' house. He is a chain smoker. Every times he gets a letter he reads it three times. He is attracted to a girl named Nilu who was his university student. He is unmarried but in the story 'Onnobhuvon' only it was mentioned that he got married to Nilu.