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The Nemesis (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 2)

By: Manoranjan Byapari

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The Nemesis (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 2)

By: Manoranjan Byapari

About the Book THE SECOND PART TO THE RUNAWAY BOY, WINNER OF THE KALINGA LITERATURE The second part of this extraordinary trilogy takes us into the late 1960s and early 1970s when the rumblings of liberation grew louder in East Pakistan and refugees came pouring into India, seeking asylum in the camps of West Bengal. The Naxalite movement too was gathering momentum; the Communist Party split into CPI (M) and CPI (ML), and a bitter power tussle ensued between them and the ruling Congress Party led by Indira Gandhi. Amidst this bloody battle, we find a twenty-something Jibon in Calcutta, driven to rage by hunger, inequity and a naïve, contagious nationalistic fervour. This burning torch of a novel is a compelling portrait of a youth negotiating the streets of Calcutta, looking to seize a life that is constantly denied to him.

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Eka

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9395073667

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9789395073660

The Runaway Boy (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 1)

By: Manoranjan Byapari

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The Runaway Boy (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 1)

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About the Book FROM THE WINNER OF THE HINDU PRIZE 2018 AND THE SHAKTI BHATT PRIZE 2022 This powerful trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels begins in East Pakistan. It tells the story of little Jibon, who arrives at a refugee camp in West Bengal in the arms of his Dalit parents escaping from the Muslim-majority nation. He grows up perpetually hungry for hot rice in the camp where the treatment meted out to dispossessed families like his is deplorable. When he is barely thirteen, Jibon runs away to Calcutta because he has heard that money flies in the air in the big city. His wildly innocent imagination leads him to believe that he can go out into the world, find work and bring back food for his starving siblings and clothes for his mother whose only sari is in tatters. And once he leaves home, through the travels of this starving, bewildered but gritty boy, we witness a newly independent India as it grapples with communalism and grave disparities of all kinds.

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310

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939576709X

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9789395767095

Imaan

By: Manoranjan Byapari

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Imaan

By: Manoranjan Byapari

About the Book FROM A WRITER WHO’S LIVED MANY LIVES—THAT OF A REFUGEE, A CLEANER, A NAXAL, A RICKSHAW-PULLER, A COOK, AND NOW AN MLA Imaan Ali had entered Central Jail as an infant with his mother, who was charged with the murder of his father. Zahura Bibi died when he was six, and he grew up, shuttling between a juvenile remand home and the boys’ ward in the prison. Now, twenty years later, he has been released. With no family or home to return to, he ends up at the Jadavpur railway station, becoming a ragpicker on the advice of a former jail-mate, an expert pickpocket. The world of the free baffles him, and although the people living in the shanties by the railside—rickshaw-pullers, scrap-dealers, tea-stall owners, and those who sell dead bodies for a little bit of money—welcome him into their fold, life on a platform is both disillusioning and frightening at once; far more frightening than the precincts he was familiar with. This, too, is a prison, like the one he came from; that was small, and this is much larger. But no one went hungry in the jail he came from. If nothing else, one had a roof on their head, got three square meals, a blanket to sleep on. To get away from this odd world, Imaan wishes to return to the secure existence of a prison cell. He finds out that while there is only one door to get out of prison, there are a thousand doors to return to it—like theft, murder, rioting or rape. But is Imaan up to the task? Is he capable of committing a crime?

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177

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Westland

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9395073535

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9789395073530

There's Gunpowder In The Air

By: Manoranjan Byapari,Arunava Sinha

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There's Gunpowder In The Air

By: Manoranjan Byapari,Arunava Sinha

About the Book SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE, THE DSC PRIZE, THE CROSSWORD BOOK AWARD IN 2019 AND THE MATHRUBHUMI BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE IN 2020 It’s the early seventies. The Naxalbari Movement is gathering strength in Bengal. Young men and women have left their homes, picked up arms to free land from the clutches of feudal landlords and the state, and return them to oppressed landless farmers. They are being arrested en masse and thrown into high-security jails. In one such jail, five Naxals are meticulously planning a jailbreak. They must free themselves if the revolution is to continue. But petty thief Bhagoban, much too happy to serve frequent terms for free food and shelter, has been planted by Jailor Bireshwar Mukherjee among them as a mole. Only, Bhagoban seems to be warming up to them. There’s Gunpowder in the Air is a searing investigation into what deprivation and isolation can do to human idealism. And Manoranjan Byapari is perhaps the most refreshing voice to emerge from Bengal in recent times.

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156

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9395073306

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9789395073301

Amanushik (Bengali): অমানুষিক

By: Manoranjan Byapari,মনোরঞ্জন ব্যপারী

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Amanushik (Bengali): অমানুষিক

By: Manoranjan Byapari,মনোরঞ্জন ব্যপারী

About the Book BASED ON TRUE EVENTS In our judicial system, a person accused of committing the most heinous of crimes can go scot-free, while someone booked for petty theft can stay locked away for many, many years. It largely depends on the depth of the defendant’s pockets and their clout. Those sentenced to death by hanging by the highest court must, according to the law, be executed within two years of the verdict. But in reality, those prisoners die every single day leading up to the date of execution. The stomping of the boots of the guards doing their rounds of the jail corridors doesn’t let them rest; they sound like the death knell. Arjun Chatterji was one such prisoner who had been lodged in jail for fourteen years. Charged with the rape and murder of a fourteen-year-old school girl living in the apartment society where he worked as a security guard, he was the only person to be sentenced for a crime not related to terrorism in the twentieth century. He pled innocence until the moment he was hanged, which sparked off a public debate over how justice is handed out in our country because the evidence presented in court was inconclusive. This is the story of Arjun Chatterji. Both the acts in this novel—the crime and the punishment—are ‘inhuman’; they are both ‘Amanushik’.

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129

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Eka

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9357762299

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9789357762298

The Runaway Boy (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 1)

By: Manoranjan Byapari

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The Nemesis (Chandal Jibon Trilogy - Book 2)

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Amanushik (Bengali): অমানুষিক

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