Footnotes of History - A Tale of the Mahabharata
Description
It is a narrative poem in 5 parts and seeks to chronicle those episodes and characters who have been treated as minor or of lesser importance in the epic, though some well-known characters with their relatively unknown tales also feature in it.
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Person
A teacher by profession and a poet by temperament, Arnab Chatterjee is presently a Faculty in the Department of English (UG & PG), Sister Nivedita University, New Town, Kolkata, and has also been its interim In-charge. He has been associated with Poets Foundation, Kolkata, duly recognized by FOIPA, UNESCO for over a decade and a half, being its Honorary Assistant Secretary for a brief period of time and one of its valued authors that brought out his first books: In Desolate Dwellings, Residence Beneath the Earth and the long narrative poem The Wind in the Abyss, that is part of "The Reflections Trilogy". An alumnus of St. Xavier's College, as well as Presidency College, Kolkata, his name appears in the prestigious Who's Who of Indian Writers Writing in English(ISBN: 978-81-260-4812-0), a nation-wide record compiled by The SahityaAkademi, the National Academy of Letters of India. Recently, he has completed averse re-telling of the epic The Mahabharata from the point of view of minor characters and incidents.
