Triolet- Indiference, The Hero and Music and Senescence

About the Book Why does love-struck young man lift living corpse who stares with infinite contempt man and all his works, including homecoming of peasant revolutionary after years in prison departs from the expected scenario right secret almost destroys hero and his human relationships? What the celebrated musician for age dries music and his tries clam his spirit?

Dipanjan Chaudhuri searches answers in another triplet of short novels, probing the streets and turbulent forests, looking forms of love betrayal, with the spotlight turning on whole spectrum emotions from black despair euphoric optimism.

About the Author Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri, born in Kolkata in 1944, studied Physics at Presidency College in the turbulent late sixties and early seventies. Physics and the fight for democratic rights alternated as dominants in his life, with literature emerging from the background after his retirement as a don at Presidency, and a quest for improvement in teaching methods, especially in science and mathematics.

He has two slim volumes of poetry in Bangla to his credit, an influential tract on education, a publicist's diary called Sovereign are the People' along with a number of research papers in Physics printed in the foremost peer-reviewed international journals. Before the current offering of three novellas had come another such triplet called A Triptych.

Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri lives in Kolkata with his wife. They have a son and a daughter and three grandchildren. As pains and aches start constricting his activities he puts more time into his project of a contemporary Bangla novel in three parts, the first of which has recently been published.

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