The Genius of Chirajit Paul – Volume 2 is a collection of a novella – Made in Munger (Crime); four plays – Kashmir 1953 (Political), Gandhi and Godse: The Mystery of the Fourth Wound (Political), Bengal 2051 (Political/Satire) and The Intellectual (Political), and a non-fictional account of Indian history, Shaping of Modern India – A Timeline History (1905–1947). The above titles have been written betw
The Genius of Chirajit Paul – Volume 1 is a collection of two novels – The Man, the Ghost and the Proposition of God (Black Comedy/ Religion) and The Trapezoid (Psychology/ Crime), three novellas – Sea of Kashmir (Politics/ Magical Realism), Republic of Wisdomia (Utopian/ Science fiction) and Sita and Draupadi: Where Valour Prevails (Mythological) and a play – Jinnah and Bose: The Missing Pages
Apurba Sundar Sarkar, 43, dies in a road accident and goes to heaven. In heaven, he meets the members of ‘the conglomerate’ – the gods/ prophets of all religions he knows. He finds the conglomerate to be a mutual admiration society which claims to take collective (often unanimous) decisions in the ‘interest’ of mankind. Apurba cannot come to terms with his untimely death and pleads with the conglomerate to grant him permiss
What happens when a Muslim youth in contemporary India gives shelter to an Islamic terrorist, falls in cross-community love with a politician’s daughter and reforms a hardline right wing political force?
‘The Obituary of Salim Nabi’ by debutant author Chirajit Paul is a story of love, friendship, hatred, betrayal, terrorism, patriotism, diplomacy, politics revolving around the extraordinary life of an ordinary man, Salim Nabi.