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4 unusual facts about Nabarun Bhattacharya


Nabarun Bhattacharya

It is more familiarly known as the 'Dog star', owing to its prominent position in its constellation, Canis Major (Big Dog).

Anubis, the ancient Egyptian deity guarding the gate between life and death, also comes to facilitate in a mass, almost biblical exodus of the dogs from the city of sin, that is, Kolkata, which is about to experience a massive earthquake as a part of the cosmic punishment.

Now, Lubdhak is a star, the brightest star on the night sky, also known as Sirius.

Terry Eagleton pointed out, "it remains the harsh truth that the dead can be raised only in revolutionary imagination. There is no literal way in which we can compensate them for the sufferings they received at the hands of the ruling order."


Raghab Bandyopadhyay

Some of the contributors are Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ashok Sen, Debesh Roy, Hiran Mitra, Swapan Chakrabarty, Pradip Basu, Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, Sumita Chakrabarty, Ranabir Lahiri, Nabarun Bhattacharya, Debarshi Talukdar.


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