Chinmoy Mukherjee

Vibha and Baitali (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Queen Vibha, ruler of the ancient kingdom of Ujjayini, is manipulated by a sinister mendicant named Aghora into retrieving the corpse of the Baitali-a female spirit and counterpart to the legendary Betaal-from a haunted Peepal tree in the cremation grounds. The quest is a trap designed to force even a powerful queen to submit to patriarchal sorcery and endless cycles of riddles and submission. Carrying the impossibly heavy spirit (the literal weight of centuries of female oppression) through a long, moonless night, Vibha must endure a series of twenty-five tales that echo classic Indian folktales but are deliberately twisted to justify male dominance, female fragility, and rigid tradition.

Each story the Baitali tells is a moral snare meant to elicit either silence (which would shatter Vibha's head) or speech (which returns the spirit to the tree and restarts the torment). Instead of accepting the false choices offered-celebrating fragile men, helpless women, coercive ownership, self-destructive "love," or retributive justice-Vibha systematically dismantles every premise. She reframes hyper-sensitive women as powerful intelligence assets, voids marriages built on monstrosity or duress, exposes performative male sacrifice as cowardice, and transforms criminals' skills into public goods through restorative justice rather than execution. With each answer she grows stronger and the Baitali's ancient resentment softer, until the spirit herself begins to hope.

In the final confrontation inside the palace, the mendicant attempts to force one last fatal question, breaking the sacred covenant that only the spirit may pose riddles. Recognizing that true liberation lies not in winning the game but in refusing to play it at all, Vibha remains silent, drops the corpse, and walks past both sorcerer and spirit to claim her throne. The Baitali, freed at last from her role as enforcer of patriarchal logic, dissolves in radiant light while the mendicant disintegrates. Vibha immediately issues sweeping reforms-nullifying coerced contracts, elevating domestic and intellectual labor, implementing restorative justice, and establishing matrilineal legitimacy-ushering Ujjayini into a new era where law serves life instead of tradition, and a queen rules unapologetically by the clarity won from carrying, and then releasing, the full weight of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232688554
• Artikelnr.: 75927343

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.