Chinmoy Mukherjee

The Ashwatthama Files (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In "The Ashwatthama Files", the immortal warrior Ashwatthama from the Mahabharata emerges in modern India, cursed to wander eternally with an unhealing wound. Seeking basic necessities-a house, ration card, Aadhaar card, and Ayushman health card-he encounters a labyrinth of bureaucracy and political opportunism. Beginning with a visionary leader who parades him as a campaign symbol promising a "New Dawn," Ashwatthama is shuttled through various ministries, each exploiting his mythic status for their agendas. From security endorsements under the Minister of Order to diplomatic tours with the Diplomat, financial schemes with the Guardian of Wealth, and spiritual revivals with the Monk in Power, his pleas are met with grandiose promises that dissolve into endless delays and paperwork. The novella vividly captures the sensory overload of contemporary life-smog-choked cities, flashing billboards, and sterile offices-contrasting it with Ashwatthama's ancient sorrow. As the story unfolds across twenty chapters, Ashwatthama becomes a reluctant mascot for diverse causes: military recruitment, digital connectivity, opposition protests, commerce deals, infrastructure projects, cultural heritage, and global philanthropy, among others. Each encounter transforms his curse into a marketable asset-symbolizing resilience, authenticity, or eternal struggle-while his actual needs remain unfulfilled, trapped in a cycle of "under process" statuses and anomalous identity errors. Figures like the Defence Titan, Tech Minister, Queen of the East, and Environmental Evangelist offer him stages, slogans, and symbolic roles, but never tangible aid, highlighting the absurdity of a system that prioritizes optics over humanity. Through repetitive motifs of whispered ironies and closing images of mocking billboards, the narrative exposes the dehumanizing grind of bureaucracy, where even immortality succumbs to red tape. In the conclusion, Ashwatthama reaches the Directorate of Forms and Clearances, the bureaucratic heart, only to face eternal queues and incomplete documentation. Defeated not by gods or battles but by indifferent clerks and endless forms, he embodies the plight of the undocumented and marginalized. The novella ends with his silent laughter under a flickering ATM sign, a poignant critique of modern India's promises of inclusion that mask systemic indifference, reminding readers that true curses lie in the margins of progress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232660451
• Artikelnr.: 76077361

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.