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DESCRIPTION:
This romantic story, “The Return – Pursuit of a Lost Lover” is about the life of the protagonist Binayak after he lost his lady love in a strange circumstance on a river excursion. It is the second part of the series, ‘Binayak’s Life Journey’ which can be read in continuity with the earlier part “The Uncommon Love Saga”. Yet if someone wants to treat this book as a standalone piece, he can do so.
In a way, this novel also is not a modern-day love story, where education, ambition, the right to choose one’s partner, co-education, friendship, freedom of love, and choosing one’s life-mate were the choices for a common man.
In my novel, one of the protagonists’ childhoods is spent in the village on the other side of the border, and the writer, Arundhati Ray says rules. I have tried to portray the then world that can ignore and forget the depravation of women in various forms but never forgive those who infringe on the ‘love laws’ strictly imposed.
The novel is about a constant struggle between humanity and love versus hatred and violence. It is about the beauty, yet in some way, it is about the ‘ugliness’ too – the beauty of free spirit and human love and ugliness of the destructive virtue of greed.
It is a story of losing one’s close one, yet the protagonist goes undeterred about his works irrespective of what’s in offing!
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Bikash Paul Choudhury (pen Name - Yudhajit)
About The Author
Bikash Paul Choudhury, alias Yudhajit retired as the Chief Engineer, PHE Department of Meghalaya in 2017. After doing B.E. (Civil) from the Regional Engineering College, Durgapur, he completed the Master of Engineering in Public Health from the All-India Institute of Hygiene & Public Health, Kolkata. After a brief stint with the public sector in Mumbai, Bikash decided to serve his state where he spent his entire service life for the next 37 years. His personal experiences during these long service years, varied from fulfilling to traumatic, from the happy-go-lucky to the extreme despondency, and the vicissitudes of life he has richly lived – with all its hope and joy, all its pain and suffering, all its exuberance and disappointment, necessitated to writing books. His life is as it is overwhelming, always real.
The experiences he narrated in his books span not only his service life experiences but his other areas in life. Though a late starter in writing, Bikash is also a budding poet and has a passion for pencil sketching. This is his sixth book written in less than two years; and is the first part of his second fictional series – “Binayak’s Tales”. His first three fiction in a series, “Lucy’s Trilogy”, namely “Ecstasy on the Mountain”, “Over a Long Night”, and “Seashore at Twilight” were all self-published on Amazon platforms; and his fourth and fifth books were” The Unending Trail” (his autobiographical fiction) and “Powerful” (the only non-fiction). Three of his five books were best-seller number one in Amazon. in.
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