Anish Deb : Agun Ronger Bullet
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“In the beginning there would be the revolver. I would take it. Then, only then, you. We would fire the weapon at our foreheads. First me. Then you. We would try to murder ourselves. On whom is the grace of God, he would survive. The other one’s brain and its juices would be on this floor, on this plastic bag. That would be the end of ‘The Divine Lottery’ ”.
Nona smiles wanly. Then he waits like a dead man, looking at the circling structure. Billu stops it. Billu unveils the two sharp revolvers. They look similar, but one has life while the other embeds death. Nona looks upward and seeks for the divine grace. He closes his eyes when they stumble on the image of the goddess Kali. The lean boy is crying then. He is delirious. Nona picks up one revolver. He places it on the right temple. The lean boy takes up another. He waits with a serpentine stillness. Nona closes his eyes and presses the trigger.
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About the author
Dr Anish Deb (b. 1951) is presently a Professor in the Department of Applied Physics, University
of Calcutta. He is the recipient of two University gold medals and one University Silver medal
for excellence in his studies. Apart from being an academic of class, he is a noted Bengali author
of crime, mystery, detection, science fiction and ghost stories. He has been working in this
literary area for about five decades and has published fifty odd books, containing mostly his
novels and short stories. He has edited many anthologies in Bengali, including three science
fiction anthologies and four anthologies of crime novels and stories. He has also edited a few
collections in English, the latest two being Anthology of 20 Stories: Ghost and Anthology of 20
Stories: Crime, published by BEE Books. His edited anthology – Anthology of 20 Stories: Horror
will soon be published by BEE Books.
