The Eclipse: The Eclipse of Mind

By Swagatam Sengupta

About the Book:
An ex-army man appointed as a Defense Investigator. He was taken charge of a case in a defense mental hospital, from where a notorious murderer was missing. He and his partner reached there for the purpose of investigation. There were eighty patients as per there record, but after reaching there, they got the information of only sixty-seven patients. The question arises where are the rest? He found the huge conspiracy inside the hospital. During the investigation he was informed that he killed his wife and child and that is the reason he is here for mental treatment. But he knows something different. The mental hospital is surrounded by a dense forest and a river. So, it is very difficult to escape for any patients. So, where are they? Is he trapped? The mystery begins….

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pencil
• Release date: Jun 21, 2021
• ISBN: 9789354581564

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The Eclipse

The Eclipse of mind

BY

Swagatam Sengupta

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Author biography

Swagatam Sengupta is a fiction novelist. He has completed his graduation from Kolkata, India, and after his graduation he started his career. Like our all shades of life, his job career has also lots of shades. At the beginning of his career he was in aviation industry, then as a real estate marketing manager and after that in a senior position in Banking industry.

But when he was in fifteen years of age, he started writing. From that period of time he was a drama writer in all India radio and he wrote lots of short dramas based on history of city roads, comedy, horror, mystery and thriller. He was awarded for recitation and story writing. He wrote lots of stories and poems in magazines and newspapers.

His Bengali poetry book Shabdohin shabdo ( Soundless Sound ) and a sentimental love story, based on a relationship of a father and a son, Rik- a confined little heart has been published internationally. His crime thriller The Chastisement is also published worldwide. He believes that his life has so many colors and every colors carry a different story. So, writing is his passion, he doesn’t bother that how much he will earn and how his book become a best seller. He thinks that when your life will convert into the ink on the paper, then definitely this story will be interesting.

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About the Author

About the Author

Swagatam Sengupta is a fiction novelist. He has completed his graduation from Kolkata, India, and after his graduation he started his career. Like our all shades of life, his job career has also lots of shades. At the beginning of his career he was in aviation industry, then as a real estate marketing manager and after that in a senior position in Banking industry.

But when he was in fifteen years of age, he started writing. From that period of time he was a drama writer in all India radio and he wrote lots of short dramas based on history of city roads, comedy, horror, mystery and thriller. He was awarded for recitation and story writing. He wrote lots of stories and poems in magazines and newspapers.

His Bengali poetry book Shabdohin shabdo ( Soundless Sound ) and a sentimental love story, based on a relationship of a father and a son, Rik- a confined little heart has been published internationally. His crime thriller The Chastisement is also published worldwide. He believes that his life has so many colors and every colors carry a different story. So, writing is his passion, he doesn’t bother that how much he will earn and how his book become a best seller. He thinks that when your life will convert into the ink on the paper, then definitely this story will be interesting.

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Green desert all around. The fun of returning home after a long time is different. This road does not seem to end. He was lying on the back of the jeep He closed his eyes and thought about his full family, about his wife and children, although he had told her once before on the phone that she was coming this afternoon, he had repeatedly told her not to let his daughter know by mistake, that he did not want to lose the joy in her eyes when he saw her suddenly. Greenery on both sides, the sun almost setting, and for a while. A strange cold frost seemed to make his body intoxicated. This is a strange happiness, a strange feeling that may not be understood by anyone else.

On May 3rd, 1999, he received a sudden call. This Indian soldier had to arrive in Cargill, on emergency duty. It was his naughty sweet girl's birthday. This time she was 5 years old. But it is no longer a birthday celebration He had to carry the bag on his shoulder and go out to defend the country. He looked at the five-year-old girl and her mother with tears in her eyes. He said goodbye with a stone on his chest, I don't know if we will meet again. He made this promise before he waved goodbye, come back once, then celebrate birthday, decorate the house again, maybe. The country is sleeping peacefully because of the promise they have made to protect the country.

On July 26, 1999, the war ended, but he could not return home. He had to go on an unknown and another duty. Today he is returning home after almost a year and a half of fighting. A strange joy in his mind, a reckless joy of getting to his people brought him the dream of a new day. This time a long vacation, he thought he would go somewhere far away with his daughter, and his wife, Darjeeling for seven days after that marriage, he has not gone anywhere since then. An army jeep took him to the front of his house His home environment is very beautiful, quite far from the city. A bungalow surrounded by a beautiful garden, and a huge pond inside, sitting there on vacation was his biggest hobby. The scent of green and beautiful flowers all around made him forget the smell of poisonous gunpowder. He got down from the jeep and picked up the bag on his shoulder.

When he came to the house, he was surprised, so much crowd in front of his house? He realized that his heart had been pounding with excitement for so long that he had suddenly changed his language. An unknown fear engulfed him in a few moments. He slowly entered his house, crossed a garden and then his house, he saw all his neighbors lined up around him, their faces filled with sadness, looking at him with a dumb look. He couldn't hold himself for long, dropping the bag off his shoulder and running towards the door. He entered the house and saw a large crowd. He even asked a neighbor what had happened, and everyone was standing in his room, but all the unanswered answers made him even more upset. When he entered the house and pushed all the crowd, he never dreamed of what he saw. Two bodies covered with white clothes; the two blood-stained faces are asleep forever. She broke down in tears and came to them. He asked everyone like crazy, when did it happen, how