BEST SELLER AUTHOR
ANIRUDDHA BOSE
ENGLISH BOOKS
He has now written several books in Bengali. His first bookANWESHAN created a sensation to the style, presentation, theme, and philosophy in Bengali Literature. His second novelNISHABDE reflected another philosophy. For months, it remained a best-seller and represented India at the London Book Fair.
His third novel DEKHA was again a reflection of highlighting the east through the vision of young British lady of Indian origin, coming to visit India. This also mesmerised the readers with its unique theme, taking into consideration his vast experience of his life both in India and abroad. That too became a best-seller. He decided to move forward repeatedly by breaking his own previous books genre presentation and style in all his novels. He is trying to experiment his writing skills in different forms and themes and in his fourth novel CHAKRA, a psychological murder thriller, has tried to break the standard norms of both in the east and west, with a new concept of his knowledge of science and medicine and redefining murder in a new philosophy. This has also hit the charts as bestseller. His next novel TOMAKE, based on applying physics and mathematical concepts is a sweet lyrical love story literature in an unfathomed form.
Until now, all his novels have all been best-sellers....
Three of his Bengali novels namely ANWESHAN are translated in English by Anwesa Sengupta and him as QUEST and DEKHAas THE VISION rendered by Purnasree Nag and CHAKRA rendered in English as FULCRUM by Partha Pratim Roy.
The novel QUEST is restructured in its English version. Revolving round the affluent and upper middle class milieu of the urbanized society, the characters of this novel are all pawns in the game of life. The truth they discover is life is nothing but a Venn Diagram an array of intersecting circles of relations, which includes its slices, but never its whole. We have an elusive image of our existence. Only a few chosen can comprehend that our life is nothing but a part of a greater nullity.
In the lyrical novella THE VISION he explores the cry of the human soul that lurks behind the glittering façade of wealth and luxury of the West, through the eyes of young confused Brit of Indian origin, who steps into the country of her genetic origin to explore the truth of life. In her sojourn of India, she is exposed to a rich cultural heritage of India as well as a new definition of motherhood. Through the eyes of a young girl, the reader is drawn into the frozen darkness of our deepest emotions.
In the crime thriller, FULCRUM he has weaved a tale of intrigue and suspense spanning across the country, veering away from the beaten path. This is a story of normal flesh and blood human beings doing police work as one would come across in everyday life…real and well within the realm of possibilities. The myriad characters that come into play in this drama show frailties of the mind as to leave the reader stupefied.
His first English International Thriller PURSUIT is different from its genre. In the international craze for money and power, he highlights the shifting geo-economics of the world seeking the truth of human pursuits.
The Vision
There are some fundamental questions in our lives, which either rises in the strata of our emotions or sleeps in the frozen darkness of our deepest emotions. Sometimes it raises a tsunami in our stanch monotonous life shaking up our very existence. Who or what is “I”, “Dad” or filial affection? What is the real colour of affection for our children? Who is a Mom? Can motherhood be attained? Or is it just an animalistic biological event. What is life? Moreover, what will I do with my life? …. Many a times these basic questions overwhelm our cognition. We apparently live our lives more or less happily with not much cataclysm. These philosophical questions hardly play any significant role in many of our lives. Nevertheless, a few can sometimes hear the call of the wilderness. If one does hear such a call, to him the daily chores of life become meaningless. His endeavour then solely focuses in seeking an answer to these questions. These blessed few actually prepare the base for a new beginning where the progeny can cultivate a better harvest.
A lyrical novel of Aniruddha Bose’s ‘Dekha’ (in Bengali) rendered in English as THE VISION explores the answers to these questions through an array of characters. Here the author takes the reader on a guided tour of India showing its rich culture and traditions behind the apparent poverty. He brings forth the cry of human soul that lurks behind the glittering façade of wealth and luxury of the West. Then through the eyes of the main character, Srabasti, the intellectual reader understands the real philosophy. Looking at this philosophy is THE VISION.
Pursuit
Aniruddha Bose’s thriller PURSUIT is something different from its genre. It has everything a thriller possess - multiple mysterious murders; beautiful sirens; handsome hunks; powerful men who can change the world; a staggering international conspiracy; highly complex international geo-economics and politics; the just dose of sex and so on. However, what makes it stand out in the crowd is its philosophy, the humanitarian angle and the universal message of peace and harmony.
There are twists in the tale that suddenly come down on the reader as bolts from the blue. That is expected in a top class thriller. What this book additionally possesses is the touch of universal melancholy that affects every thinking man and woman of every nationality.
Greedy international big shots conspire to conquer the world, and spill the blood of the innocent and guilty alike. Small-time characters are trapped in this web engulfed by the events beyond their control and comprehension. Amidst this chaos, there remains a blind Buddhist monk in an isolated monastery in the high Himalayas, who think about these chaotic currents. He sits in his isolated shrine, watching and analysing the events in the world, like the Nimrod.
The protagonist of the story, a highly intelligent young lady who is fortunate enough to get teachings from the contrasting two worlds, the modern western as well as the timeless philosophy of Hinduism and Buddhism, gets caught in the web and flows along the current.
Besides searching the reasons of the murders, she also searches for the reason of her existence, or rather the existence and meaning of the life as a whole.
Does she reach her destination?
Aniruddha Bose narrates the story in his inimitable style, and draws the reader like a powerful magnet. The story culminates in a startling revelation of the truth. To find it, and to find your own truth, you have to read this unusual book
Fulcrum
Veering away from the beaten path Aniruddha has weaved a tale of intrigue and suspense spanning across the country. This is neither a story of the typical detective and the murderer as we would like to believe, nor does it have the mind games of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercule Poirot. This is a story of normal flesh and blood human beings doing police work as one would come across in everyday life…real and well within the realm of possibilities. The myriad characters that come into play in this drama show frailties of the mind as to leave the reader stupefied. This is a story hard to put down due to its pace as the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle get placed in their correct places with the turn of each page and ends in the final pages…
Quest
It is a small expression, but with an insightful depth. It means a search for something. For what and why? The greatest riddle of all is who is searching? Is it you, the eternal human crave or me? A longing to find the meaning of love, life and our existence.
This short novella by Aniruddha Bose examines the answer to this conundrum.
Revolving round the affluent and upper middle class milieu of the urbanized society, the characters of this novel are all pawns in the game of life. Tossing up and down through their profits and losses, accomplishments and failures, love and hatred, desire and denial, they all pass through this enigma of life. The truth they discover is life is nothing but a Venn Diagram an array of intersecting circles of relations, which includes its slices, but never its whole.
We believe erroneously in relationships. We have an elusive image of our existence. Only a few chosen can comprehend that our life is nothing but a part of a greater nullity.
The ultimate truth is that we live alone in our ‘home’ in solitude and die alone in it.