Bestselling writer Tapan Bandyopadhyay’s Birbal was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi award in 2022. In novel Birbal, Tapan Bandyopadhyay tried to find the real person behind the legend and myth of Birbal, the most famous courtiers of Mughal emperor Akba’s navaratnas. The book was published by Dey’s Publishing.