Chinmoy Mukherjee

The River Never Forgets (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"The River Never Forgets" is a haunting, poetic novella in which the Ganges, personified as a weary, wounded goddess, appears to a silent yogi named Chunmun Singh on a storm-lashed night at Rishikesh. Over the course of one cataclysmic encounter, she forces him to drink the full weight of her three-thousand-year memory. Through twenty vivid, sensory-drenched chapters she relives the horrors she has been compelled to carry: ancient ritual drownings at the Battle of the Ten Kings, Ajatashatru's weaponised flood, Alexander's terrified retreat, Ashoka's eight-day river of corpses after Kalinga, betrayals at Chandawar and Plassey, the burning boats and Bibighar massacre of 1857, Partition's blood trains, the slow strangulation by modern dams, industrial poison, and the unending quiet murder of unborn girls.

Each atrocity is rendered not as dry history but as intimate, physical violation-the taste of ghee-stuffed mouths, the smell of burning hair on boat-pyres, the thud of cannon-blown bodies raining into sacred water, the chemical burn of chromium on her skin. The river is never merely a backdrop; she is witness, victim, unwilling accomplice, and eternal mother who cannot reject even the children who kill her. By the end she stands before the yogi as a disintegrating crone of plastic and sewage, daring him to still call her "Mother" after everything humanity has poured into her.

Chunmun's answer is wordless but absolute: he drinks the poisoned water, vowing lifelong penance. From then on he becomes the Silent Pilgrim, walking each year from Haridwar to Gangasagar, ritually drinking her filth and her purity alike in a futile yet unbreakable attempt to share her burden. The novella closes not with redemption or rage, but with a quiet, heartbreaking acceptance: the river flows on, thicker than water, carrying both the yogi and the reader in the same maternal, merciless embrace-"Because that is what mothers do. We stay."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231618576
• Artikelnr.: 75927316

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.