{"product_id":"amanushik-bengali","title":"Amanushik (Bengali)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout the BookBASED ON TRUE EVENTSIn our judicial system, a person accused of committing the most heinous of crimes can go scot-free, while someone booked for petty theft can stay locked away for many, many years. It largely depends on the depth of the defendants pockets and their clout. Those sentenced to death by hanging by the highest court must, according to the law, be executed within two years of the verdict. But in reality, those prisoners die every single day leading up to the date of execution.The stomping of the boots of the guards doing their rounds of the jail corridors doesnt let them rest; they sound like the death knell. Arjun Chatterji was one such prisoner who had been lodged in jail for fourteen years. Charged with the rape and murder of a fourteen-year-old school girl living in the apartment society where he worked as a security guard, he was the only person to be sentenced for a crime not related to terrorism in the twentieth century. He pled innocence until the moment he was hanged, which sparked off a public debate over how justice is handed out in our country because the evidence presented in court was inconclusive.This is the story of Arjun Chatterji. Both the acts in this novel-the crime and the punishment-are inhuman; they are both Amanushik.About the AuthorManoranjan Byapari writes in Bengali. Some of his important works include Chhera Chhera Jibon, Ittibrite Chandal Jibon and the Chandal Jibon trilogy of novels. He taught himself to read and write at the age of twenty-four when he was in prison. He has worked as a rickshaw-puller, a sweeper and a porter. Until 2018, he was working as a cook at the Hellen Keller Institute for the Deaf and Blind in West Bengal. In 2018, the English translation of his memoir, Ittibrite Chandal Jibon (Interrogating My Chandal Life), received the Hindu Prize for non-fiction. In 2019, he was awarded the Gateway Lit Fest Writer of the Year Prize. Also, the English translation of his novel Batashe Baruder Gandha (Theres Gunpowder in the Air) was shortlisted for the JCB Prize 2019, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019, the Crossword Prize 2019 and the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Prize 2020. The English translation of his novel Chhera Chhera Jibon (Imaan) was shortlisted for the JCB Prize 2022. He also received the Shakti Bhatt Prize this year for his body of work. In 2021, Byapari became a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Westland\/Pratilipi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45866214752454,"sku":"DADAX9357762299","price":4.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/81Nf-OrTtBL.jpg?v=1779348022","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/amanushik-bengali","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}