Bøker av Chinmay Chakravarty

Four haunting tales of mystery, suspense and thrills, set in the Indian milieu: from that of a ranger isolated in the dead of the night at a lodge in a dense forest...to that of the two friends having a nightmare in the cozy comfort of a middle-class living room in a lively city...to that of the three brothers coming to their village home for a family reunion where things go very wrong... and then a journalist taking on the impossible task to cap it all!

Weirdos roam everywhere around us, at times they move within us too. However, one cannot be definitive about the salient features or the rich attributes that make them so. The short stories of this book do accept this fact and therefore, the titular characters described in those stories are not marked out as them, leaving the onus on the intelligent readers to judge for themselves.

Dive into a captivating collection that weaves the rich tapestryof India's diverse narratives. This book invites readers on amesmerizing journey through enchanting tales that unveil thecultural kaleidoscope and timeless wisdom of the subcontinent.

Eating has more or less been universally acclaimed as a joyous act, with, of course, a possible other side attached to it. However, the other side doesn't mean that it shouldn't be as amusing as the act. The Bhogmon stories represent the other side of eating.

This book is not a work of research with diagrams or flowing graphs and charts. However, the book, as a handy ready-reference, could help both interested readers and researchers who'd like to know what exactly happened in India at what point of time during the Pandemic. The writer has tried his best to present correct information along with his opinions and observations based on all inputs available in public domain, continuously tracking the virus. The Pandemic was such an unprecedented crisis to hit humankind that no sensitive writer/author could turn his/her head away from it. It's affected almost every human being on this planet and the journey has also been extremely painful for most of them, losing dearest friends, colleagues and relatives. This writer has also suffered a great deal and got infected too in the Second Wave. The writer would be grateful if the book helps the readers. The book is a collection of the author's writings published across blogs and numerous e-zines and e-papers.

"Right or wrong and reasonable or unreasonable arguments hardly matter in the matters of a happy conjugal life. You accept the wrong gleefully if your spouse says so, and your 'right' is never accepted easily which fact you must surrender yourself to. If you say her wrong as 'wrong' clearly it'll work as a trigger to erupt her like a volcano; never dormant, you must understand that too. You see, all for everlasting conjugal happiness and bliss. However, this is not the general picture..."

"...I almost made it. But unfortunately, just at the final moment of exit I accidentally brushed against the goon standing there, and his gun fell to the ground. Before the goon could react to that I acted impulsively and with a good presence of mind. I instantly stooped down, picked up the gun and handed it back to him with a sweet smile. The bewildered thug also managed a grin, and as I made my last move to exit he said to me in a rather paralyzing perplexity, "You gotta be a good man! But many good guys gotta die sooner than others! Nah..?" he hollered in great merriment over his own humor. "Enjoy the night, goodbye!" he rather guffawed out the farewell to me. I smiled weakly back at him and slowly moved out. The goon leaned out of the entrance to watch me, still giggling.About twenty yards ahead the road turned right, and if I was able to round that corner I would finally move out of his sight. I watched many movies and read many thrillers where the villains appeared to be very suave, sophisticated and benevolent, but at the climax they used to murder the victims mercilessly. Those twenty yards seemed to be an eternity as I started moving slowly ahead measuring every step and at the same time keeping an absolute outward calm..."