The Era Of Sci-Fi

With the world moving towards the zenith of technological metamorphosis, paving ways to new and unimaginable ways of life, Niyogi Books have come up with a new timely title by  Rajat Chaudhuri, The Butterfly Effect.

A self-obsessed Calcutta detective who goes by his last name `Kar’, an enigmatic internet cafe hostess in Seoul, and a hotshot geneticist labouring away on a topsecret corporate project. These are just a few pieces in the puzzle that need to be put together to explain a world sucked into the whirlpool of the `butterfly effect’.

The most exciting part about a science fiction is how it dares to imagine a future for what has been historically, abhorrently dismissed as ‘the dark continent’. It is a realism of time which tries to portray the possible future.

About the author

Rajat Chaudhuri Who is also the author of Hotel Calcutta, Amber Dusk and the Bengali short story collection Calculus has won a Charles Wallace Creative Writing Fellowship, UK, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, Scotland, a Korean Arts Council-InKo Residency in South Korea, and a Sangam House residency. He has written for Outlook magazine, American Book Review, Asian Review of Books, The Telegraph, Eclectica, among others

The book will be launched by our three eminent speakers along with the author.

Sanjukta Dasgupta: Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University

Priyadarshi Basu:  Scientist-Gneticist

Chandrila Bhattacharya:  Author, Lyricist

Rajat Chaudhury: Author

And our Chief Guest Mr.Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, eminent author.