This novel, SHADOWS ARE ASSASSINS is a psychological journey. The more the Novel progresses it becomes from a socio political journey of a man to the discovery of his own psychic reality. The first 42 chapters deal with our epistemological limitations as we suffer in our language, in our relations and in our day to day political aspects of life. But the next 40 chapters actually become a spiritual quest in it's own adventure of romance and love. It is violent also in the sense of mutilation of every kind of self suppressions to reach out to the reality of our desire for the Other. And the remaining 33 chapters actually become a surreal description of transcendence of every border line which human beings fear to cross. Indeed if our deeper and therefore unknown desires emerge from within and truly stand before us, it becomes exactly perceptible how a mysterious battleground of hate and love, love and death seek to destroy us and rebuild us. In the novel SHADOWS ARE ASSASSINS Shyamal Bhattacharjee, the author, makes his readers witness this perilous journey inside the mysterious battlefield human mind. Among the characters presented in the novel, some have their desired childhood and adolescence, some woman with repressed sexual desire, some woman her dead son, some man his dead father, some persons with their repressed homosexuality, some with their homicidal and suicidal tendencies. It is a dangerous shadow fight when different shadows of oneself become opponents in different lights It will not be wrong to mention that the the novel is written with a wonderful poetic language from the beginning to the end. So far it is one of the 7th unpublished novels written by Shyamal Bhattacharjee. The whole novel SHADOWS ARE ASSASSINS is framed with small chapters with a headline that captures the central idea of the next 500 to 600 words. Chapters are kept small keeping in view to its poetic and intellectual intensity. Each chapter can be regarde
Drastic has been the condition and pitiable has been the state of Indian Hockey after March 15th 1975 when it won its only World Cup. The game which made India to be known all across the world and the impetus that it created in terms of the stills, skills, effects and impact, hockey should have been the BEST and the most RICHEST game of India, and the most popular , but it continues to live in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT , with the players , leading their life as the paupers , living in the state of PENURY , and the administrators being the DRACULA and the DEMONS which has sucked the blood, to completely kill this game. The author who himself was a creditable Hockey player in his College days and also a former Sports Journalist completely diagnoses the root cause of the decay of the game and analysis to give some of the best solution so that this game once again brings trillions and miles of smiles, and laurel to India. Beautiful in narration and exhaustive in explanation this book really serves as a MUST for the sports lovers for a complete and meaningful reading. The manner in which it is written, the book serves as a revolution in the field of literature that relates to Indian Hockey , beside capable of earning a DOCTORATE for the manner in which the book is written.
Written especially for those who have forgotten what life is, in order to attain status, prestige, success, name and fame. A careful reading of the book will enable the readers about managing their life, and obtaining their end through peace. Quotes on politics and war add colour to the book, and the readers will enjoy browsing through the pages to make their life meaningful and happy.
Shyamal Bhattacharjee's second English novel A Poet in the Bardo tells the story of a man who is dying in an accident. In those moments of death the man sees his whole life in some flashes wherein human concepts of space and time have no bearing. Even all the events that could have happened but did not happen in life become some miraculous visual experiences and lead him to overcome various bonds and obstacles towards a peaceful death. As the movement of a newly deceased soul towards a desired rebirth or void is described within the pattern of Tibetan Bardo Thodol or Book of the Dead, this novel also describes an equivalent experience. The amazing epicness of the language of that description belongs to Shyamal Bhattacharjee's own poetic style.
It is a book which covers the important aspect of those things which encircle and encompass our daily moments of life. Almost everything jotted here in terms of quotes are the harsh and true “realities”, which the author has experienced in his life. Measuring these experiences with others, and with the people residing in other parts of the globe or hemisphere, the author found that irrespective of the beings situated at the corners of the world, the minutes and the moments of the sufferings of the people are same. There is pain, there are sorrows, there are moments of glorious triumphs and despair. People might be different, but the happenings and the bearings are all alike. Those have been the imaginations and the inputs which have been beautifully converted into a book which describes it all in terms of quotes, output into this book. The book in fact is a remedial measure for the worst that the human species suffers in his lifetime.
Plague, most ancient, dreadful and formidable pestilential rodent borne disease was a major public health problem in India till the mid twentieth century A.D. Plague is one of the three epidemic prone diseases still subject to the International Health Regulations and notifiable to the World Health Organization (WHO). In India mortality due to plague reached zero level during 1967. However, sporadic cases of suspected human plague were reported from Himachal Pradesh during 1966 and 1983-1984 and Karnataka during 1984 and at times localized sylvatic plague incidence encountered in the last decade from the trijunction of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in peninsular India. During 1994 a bubonic plague outbreak at Beed district, Maharashtra and pneumonic plague outbreak in Surat, Gujarat were recorded. After 8 long years of quiescence a localized outbreak of pneumonic plague occurred in Himachal Pradesh in 2002. In 2004, a bubonic plague outbreak occurred in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand. Scientists were in general opinion about the role of rodents and fleas in global transmission of plague, and the main means of dissemination carried by infected rats through the international trade routes. Rodents are the carriers of viral, rickettsial, nematode and bacterial diseases and are responsible for the transmission of more than 35 communicable diseases including Hanta viruses. In indirect transmission of diseases, rodents may serve as intermediate hosts for parasites that ultimately infect man and may serve as reservoirs of disease agents which may be picked up by arthropod vectors like fleas, ticks or mites and transmitted to humans through bites. In direct transmission, rodents may transmit the viruses by inhalation of aerosolized excreta, ingestion of excreta or by direct contact with the rodent itself and may directly transmit a pathogen to man through bite. Plague continues to exist as a major public health problem in many countries of the world. In several countries plague has remained quiescent for years together before reappearing all of a sudden. The enzootic foci of plague in India is believed to be present in four groups of foci in northern, central, western and southern India. From 1989 to 1994 active zoonotic foci of plague were detected from the trijunction of Tamil Nadu (Krishnagiri district), Andhra Pradesh (Chittoor district) and Karnataka (Kolar and Bangalore rural district). As the sylvatic rodents live in wild and peri-domestic situations and maintain the natural transmission in enzootic foci for centuries together, eradication of the disease is highly impossible. Natural decline in plague incidence would not justify the conclusion that plague has disappeared from the area. Plague is a re-emerging zoonotic disease. The number of human plague cases reported to W.H.O. by different countries was always lower than the actual number of cases. Under reporting may be attributed to lack of diagnostic facilities for the confirmation of the cases and cessation of plague surveillance work by number of erstwhile plague endemic countries. The worldwide decline in plague incidence since the 1950s resulted in decreased financial support, lesser interest, and ultimately the deterioration of laboratory-based surveillance systems in many endemic countries in the world. The lack of continuous baseline data on plague surveillance may result in an undetected sudden increase of bubonic/pneumonic cases in an enzootic/endemic foci of the world, or re-emerging of the disease. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the number of plague cases shows rising trend worldwide, and outbreaks are reappearing in various countries of the world after decades of quiescence. Plague can re-emerge, vaccination is useless and mass killing of rodents is not the solution for the eradication of the disease. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), global incidence of human plague was the lowest reported in 30 years, and the actual incidence was probably little different. However, we should be extremely vigilant as it is not uncommon to observe the long years of quiescence in natural plague foci, and the sudden appearance of human cases is always destabilizing for national or even international authorities. A plague outbreak may also cause widespread panic, as occurred in India in 1994 when a relatively small outbreak, with 54 deaths, was reported in the city of Surat. This led to a nationwide collapse in tourism and trade, with an estimated cost of US$600 million. Despite major advances in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, it has not been possible to eradicate plague. Due to the high public health significance and the risk of its re-emergence after long years of quiescence, plague should not be relegated to the sidelines. It remains a poorly understood threat that we cannot afford to ignore. Potential new foci should be confirmed and investigated, with special attention to harbours with international trade.
Written especially for those who have forgotten what life is, in order to attain status, prestige, success, name and fame. A careful reading of the book will enable the readers about managing their life, and obtaining their end through peace. Quotes on politics and war add colour to the book, and the readers will enjoy browsing through the pages to make their life meaningful and happy.
Drastic has been the condition and pitiable has been the state of Indian Hockey after March 15th 1975 when it won its only World Cup. The game which made India to be known all across the world and the impetus that it created in terms of the stills, skills, effects and impact, hockey should have been the BEST and the most RICHEST game of India, and the most popular , but it continues to live in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT , with the players , leading their life as the paupers , living in the state of PENURY , and the administrators being the DRACULA and the DEMONS which has sucked the blood, to completely kill this game. The author who himself was a creditable Hockey player in his College days and also a former Sports Journalist completely diagnoses the root cause of the decay of the game and analysis to give some of the best solution so that this game once again brings trillions and miles of smiles, and laurel to India. Beautiful in narration and exhaustive in explanation this book really serves as a MUST for the sports lovers for a complete and meaningful reading. The manner in which it is written, the book serves as a revolution in the field of literature that relates to Indian Hockey , beside capable of earning a DOCTORATE for the manner in which the book is written.
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