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Bhattacharjee, Arun

 
9781449024079: Death Of A Brahmin: Bhrigu's Child
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1449024076 ISBN 13 : 9781449024079
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2010

Synopsis

This is about an intrepid child's struggle to reach a moral height, wasted, as the global environment, family ties, and perceptions in rural and urban societies underwent tectonic changes. Catapulted into a world least prepared for from a conservative Brahmin family, living in a sylvan rural environment and with small-town companionship, Anil's life was transformed into one he never bargained for. Poverty, family tragedies and a difficult career, different from the traditional profession of teaching that his parents wanted him to follow, took a toll as he strived hard to prove himself. He lived in the past most of his life, yearning for the sylvan village environment, the simple love and affection he shared, and the small adventures that dotted the vast landscape of his experience, not all pleasant, from sexual abuse by a distant aunt in childhood, to conceding to be separated from a girl he loved, took a severe toll, but failed to have a major impact on his psyche. Problem came late: alienation from his children, living with an alcoholic son, and the loss of his wife. It was the aloneness that affected him most, compelling him to withdraw from the rest of the world and take shelter in a mental sanatorium he visited in his early youth in one of the hill stations of India, where he befriended a doctor and found in his wife a daughter he never had, but longed for. There he fought a constant battle of wits to fool the psychiatrists and physicians, to play the role of a patient living with schizophrenia. Ultimately he took his own life, not through suicide his beloved sister had chosen, but through Brahminic, Vedic rites; invoking death, a constant companion, he was never afraid of.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Arun Bhattacharjee was born in a village in eastern India before the subcontinent was divided into two nations. Along with more than a million unfortunate victims, he and his family chose to live in a democratic and secular India rather than a theocratic state. He completed most of his schooling in a small town now in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), graduated from the University of Calcutta, and completed his post graduate studies in journalism and a fellowship program in the United States with the World Press Institute as a Reader's Digest Fellow. His journalism career began in a Calcutta newspaper, before he moved to Delhi to work for the news/feature service of the Press Foundation of Asia and finally, to Africa to work with the United Nations. These days he contributes as a freelance writer and teaches communications and print media journalism as a visiting lecturer in two institutions. This is his first venture into writing fiction. He had refrained from trying his hand in it earlier; afraid that 'all journalists want to be creative authors and all journalism teachers active journalists - few achieving'.He authored five works on non-fiction. His first book, Dateline Mujibnagar, was a researched journalistic work on the birth of the new nation of Bangladesh. His second book, Indian Press: From Profession to Industry, was written when he was the Assistant Director of the Press Institute of India, provided a blue print of the forces that were to shape India's print media transforming a trade into an industry. His other book, Chasing the Missing Link, deals with the relationship between the growth of communications technologies and economic development. It was written in the backdrop of the first wave of telecommunications liberalization, when the New Telecom Policy catapulted India into a high growth economy. His last book, Communications Technologies, was edited by him and included contributions of his writing

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is about an intrepid child's struggle to reach a moral height, wasted, as the global environment, family ties, and perceptions in rural and urban societies underwent tectonic changes. Catapulted into a world least prepared for from a conservative Brahmin family, living in a sylvan rural environment and with small-town companionship, Anil's life was transformed into one he never bargained for. Poverty, family tragedies and a difficult career, different from the traditional profession of teaching that his parents wanted him to follow, took a toll as he strived hard to prove himself. He lived in the past most of his life, yearning for the sylvan village environment, the simple love and affection he shared, and the small adventures that dotted the vast landscape of his experience, not all pleasant, from sexual abuse by a distant aunt in childhood, to conceding to be separated from a girl he loved, took a severe toll, but failed to have a major impact on his psyche. Problem came late: alienation from his children, living with an alcoholic son, and the loss of his wife. It was the aloneness that affected him most, compelling him to withdraw from the rest of the world and take shelter in a mental sanatorium he visited in his early youth in one of the hill stations of India, where he befriended a doctor and found in his wife a daughter he never had, but longed for. There he fought a constant battle of wits to fool the psychiatrists and physicians, to play the role of a patient living with schizophrenia. Ultimately he took his own life, not through suicide his beloved sister had chosen, but through Brahminic, Vedic rites; invoking death, a constant companion, he was never afraid of.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1449024076
ISBN 13 
9781449024079
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
380
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