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The Mysterious Dreamsby
Nandita Chakraborty Banerjji
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Back then in 1960s, a youth movement took birth in United States…
“Beats symbolized energy, and created a ‘happening’ atmosphere. Beats made them dance. They were called
Beatniks. Songs were just an excuse.”
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This was called Hippies era. A new freedom from rules!It also brought them together.
But what does it really mean to be together?
Could their romance be the end to all the nightmares?
Shibani - A Bengali girl living in Mumbai and Chris, a hipster living in states.
A romance that was meant to be liberating - one that breathed freedom, love,
unabandoned sex and thrills. A romance that could free one from the shackles of peers, of society
or even of destiny. The days of love, revenge, soul searching intoxication, mythology,
beliefs, drugs and unending mysterious dreams. Copyrights @ Castle of Books
When John Lennon said, “Imagine there is no Religion”…
He did not suggest, “There is no God”. He meant God is one. Religion is just a brand.
Taking heart from these words, Nandita Chakraborty Banerjji creates a novel that weaves between the lives of two characters carrying the burden of dark secrets and
oppressive lives.
A journey, filled with humor, experiences, imaginations and wisdom and insights into the
hippie culture of yesteryear.When they met, they were woven together in this
unbreakable bond. The thing held them together was their desire to rebel and do the new. They became
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Drugs. Soul -Search ing . Mytho logy. Be l ie fs . Our Past . Our Future .
A n o v e l t h a t w i l l m a k e y o u s i t b a c k a n d t a k e n o t i c e .
“They just let him be. That was nature. The touch of nature lay in the feel of soft, wet mud, in the fragrance and colors of flowers and in the beholding of natural and scenic
beauty.”
“People had forgotten to live. To breathe and be conscious of it. They just
breathed mechanically, half heartedly, without thought and withoutappreciation. People had become a commodity.”
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Excerpts from the book“The hippies wanted to distort the years of social programming
that had led to both men and women continuing to be harassed in various ways and not coming out to defy the
defaulters.”
“They had successfully invaded the minds of youngsters who would give anything to dress like them. The hippies became
the pioneers of modernism.”
“Mini- skirts took the world by storm. Necklines plunged. Repression turned to expression and the hippies carried on
sans shame or jealousy.”
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From the America-Vietnam war to the Hippie movement to the state of nuclear armament.
From popular music - the Beatles to Bangla Baul – t0 the uses of Hemp.
From Woodstock and Mardi Gras to Drug Abuse and Bengali culture.
Religion, Cancer, ISKCON, Tie-dye, Terrorism, Women's lib, Consumerism, Environment, Rabindra Sangeet.
To the world as it is.
The world as it was.
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The mystery of the unending dreams.
The history that made the present.
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Nandita Chakraborty Banerjji, a Mumbai based author, is a qualified microbiologist. She has been interested in writing from school days and was editor of her school magazine. She is a simple-minded, shy and reticent person. She believes in ‘Live and let live’ and in moderation in everything. Some of her short stories and have been published in magazines. She is presently working on her second novel.
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The Mysterious Dreams by Nandita Banerjee.
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