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BOOK REVIEW: 'THERE'S GUNPOWDER IN THE AIR' by Manoranjan Byapari

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NOT LETTERS ON PAPER, THIS IS SPARK OF FIRE!  BOOK: THERE'S GUNPOWDER IN THE AIR AUTHOR: MANORANJAN BYAPARI TRANSLATOR: ARUNAVA SINHA PUBLISHER: EKA (WESTLAND AMAZON) PUBLICATION: 2019 ABOUT: 'THE JCB PRIZE for literature SHORTLISTED 2019' 'THE DSC PRIZE LONGLISTED 2019' AMAZON:  ENGLISH   BENGALI REVIEW: Some stories are not really stories, they are testimonial of revolution, memorandum of unsung events. 'There's Gunpowder in the Air' is one of them. It's really hard to describe this rare book. Don't be fooled by guessing it as a jail break story, it's far from it, as I said earlier, it's fire, blazing fire! Manoranjan Byapari has an intensely tragic life story, you should know. It's unbelievable to think how he managed to write so much novels, with so much class! Or maybe his life events actually made him such a genius writer. He was the eye witness of the story he wrote. But still he manages to write a story wi