Bøger af Arnab Chatterjee

In an irate world full of confusions and its miasma, the spring finally comes. It has to. But Nature responds not in the way it should. The screams of the world and the dilapidation of the human spirit mar with the first buds that sprout. There are ""muffled cries"" here and there. As if an unnecessary foliage spoils the flowers of life as weeds do. Thus, the fulcrum of perfectibility is burnt to ashes. This time, the spring is not amiable but ""violent.""A Violent Spring & Other Poems captures this silent malady inherent in existence, in whatever we do. Gaps continue to sprout in the way history is narrated; lovers, perfectly content with themselves ultimately find this tranquility illusory, a sub-tropical storm shows that nothing will be the same again, no matter what we do. If the limiting factor is human nature and the uncertain world wherein we eke out a routine, then springs will continue to be violent, regeneration will be short-lived and Banquo will eternally return, failing not this feast of life and death.Arnab Chatterjee's poems weave the most delicate of images, to bring out the complex interplay that is always on between time and words. Words, flowing on ceaselessly, to paint in verse the passing of time, through seasonal motions of the vernal to the stormy to the autumnal, and yet the words themselves being all too self-conscious about the possible inadequacy in doing the same efficaciously, mark the fundamental quest that Arnab takes his readers on.Prof. Saugata BhaduriSchool of Language, Literature and Culture StudiesJawaharlal Nehru UniversityNew Delhi

From the tale of betrayal and infidelity that unfolded in ancient Egypt during the time of the pyramids, to that of an account of how a homely cat meets a rude fate, from the daily, taxing routine of a suburban commuter to that of a ghostly but tragic tale of a farmer during the British Raj, these stories have something for everyone. Combining the transcendental with the mundane, using a medley of techniques, they capture the essence of life and manners. They are the best while on a long journey or for arm chair reading.

After trying his hands at narrative poetry that sees its culmination in his magnum opus "Footnotes of History: A Tale of the Mahabharata", a book of 50 haiku poems that register multifarious sensations comes straight from the depths of the heart and intellect of the author again-the self-same qualities that marked the mellifluous "September Songs" and "A Violent Spring and Other Poems" . The poet writes freely and even sub-consciously on themes as diverse as religion, mythology, nature, relations and whatever that can be adroitly dealt in words. A must have for haiku lovers and those interested in micro-poetry that still makes sense and is not lost into the desert of non-comprehension and mere epigrammatic blather. Praise for the Book 1.Arnab Chatterjee's Penitent Night revels in mellow ostranenie and surprises. Innovated to delineate the present era, the haiku speak of existential crises, Doomsday, environmental decay, as also of an elevated state of the psyche. The flow of imagery, language and intellection is neoteric and avant-garde and the reader is most fascinated by the author's technical and imaginative prowess. Both arcadian and urban, and with subtly hinted eroticisms, the haikus in the volume achieve in expanding the scope of this traditional form. - Inam Hussain Mullick Award winning poet and author of Roses for the Madhouse & Winter's Electric Architecture. 2. Arnab Chatterjee's modern poetry confronts the daily milieu with a mystifying sap. The effortless images like a painting dog, swaying banana leaves, and a weeping Sisyphus, make the book an austere read. - Madhu Raghavendra, Poet and founder of Poetry Couture.3."Haikus are sages/that will parade in the nude;/till a Picasso takes over."Arnab Chatterjee's Penitent Night possess verses that witness temporal liquidations of days as hours march on, deliberating on minutiae, domestic corners, desert vicinities, and refugee islands with sensitive superimposition, making you pause: an exercise in wondering, nostalgic pondering. -Rochelle Potkar Author, Paper Asylum.

These plays do not convey much, nor do they seek to demonstrate in the traditional sense. They are not "well-made plays" in the strict sense of the term. In one, a meeting that seeks to solve the issues of day-to-day affairs of a residential society sees supernatural beings joining in, but their serio-comic inclusion deepens the complexity further. In yet another, a nondescript man suddenly becomes the center of attention, hitherto neglected and confined to the fringes of human civilization. In the third, the Devil himself gives an altogether new, albeit mock conception of hell and heaven and becomes one with the mundane and the brazen. Whatever be the 'vision' of the dramatist, these plays with three different, yet recognizable backgrounds just give an image of what may happen. The dividing line between reality and illusion is blurred and nothing seems to be impossible. Using a somewhat magic-realist mode, they show the seemingly bizarre, commonplace.

After the earth is devastated by a Third World War and plate tectonic forces, an autocratic government called The Village emerges in 2222 AD that uses the then turned deadly rays of the sun and its quantum supercomputer Nemesis to devise a viral, psychological illness that keeps the populace under control, governed by the enigmatic Boss and his son, the Sir.

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to multi-agent, multi-choice repetitive games, such as the Kolkata Restaurant Problem and the Minority Game.