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The Great Silence

One ordinary morning the internet dies—every screen, signal, and server on the planet falls silent. In Neo-Seattle, software engineer Arvind Singh and graphic designer Vibha Jha watch their connected lives shatter and flee to the remote settlement of Confluence, where survivors learn to live by firelight, barter, and memory. Decades later their grandson Kael unearths the buried servers of the old world, forcing the community into a perilous “Second Choosing”: embrace the digital ghosts again, or protect the quieter, more vivid life they have finally earned.

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The novella "The Great Silence" depicts a dystopian scenario where the internet and all digital networks abruptly vanish, plunging the hyper-connected world into chaos. Set in Neo-Seattle, it follows Arvind Singh, a software engineer, and his girlfriend Vibha Jha, a graphic designer, as they navigate the immediate aftermath: frozen screens, lost communications, and societal breakdown. The story explores the profound impacts on daily life, from disrupted work and entertainment to severed family ties and knowledge gaps, leading to economic collapse, violence, and mass migrations. As civilization fragments, Arvind and Vibha flee to a rural settlement called Confluence, where survivors adapt through analog skills, bartering, and community bonds, forging a sustainable, low-tech existence that emphasizes self-reliance and human connection over digital dependency.

Decades later, the narrative shifts to future generations grappling with the legacy of "the Fall." Arvind, now an elder, witnesses his grandson Kael and peers rediscover buried servers, unleashing digital ghosts of entertainment and knowledge that threaten to erode their hard-won resilience. A schism arises between those enchanted by the old world's allure and elders advocating caution, culminating in a crisis that forces a "Second Choosing." Ultimately, the community integrates select technologies sparingly, achieving balance and honoring the lessons of overreliance. The conclusion reflects on a quieter, more vivid world illuminated by human spirit rather than screens, where true progress lies in knowing when to embrace or reject the past's echoes.

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Chinmoy Mukherjee

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 15–30%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveries — some thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google’s Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without paying — only to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India’s first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed “Patient Analytics,” a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled “Build Android-Based Smart Applications” via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.

Check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gt0W_GVnxEg for proof.

List of all books published by Chinmoy Mukherjee:

Proof that NP equals P

Title

How Not to Kill Tagore

The Kurukshetra Losers

When the Water Stills

The Engineer’s Boundary

The Blockchain Bride

Tigers in the Fuselage

When Flow Becomes Fire

Microslop

The Sound of Crimson

The Last Algorithm

The Final Prompt

Iskandar’s Oracle

Narada’s Kurukshetra

69 Fines and a Baby

The Uncertified

The Loom of Consequence

The Siege of Lanka

The Unexpected Click

The Coma Club

The Parramatta Princess

The Desperation Index

Digital Monk

Balled

The Karma Protocol

Gods of the Grid

The Last Breath of Lanka

The Saree Glitch

Code, Conscience and Chaos

The Crown of Devotion

Basant's Eternal Bloom

Azure For Starters

Ms. Aussie and Mr. Ravana

Ideas to Change the World

Coding Interview Questions and Answers

Eat, Slurp, Ascend

The Crimson Yarra: A Desperate Hunt

Mahabharata Reloaded

The Unbroken Vows

Sujata Down Under: Melbourne Nirvana

Shadows of Lust: Murder in the Night

Hacker Baba

The Chlorophyll Genesis

The Legend of Chunmun Singh

The Fire and the Throne

Beneath the AI's Glow

The Divine Weapons

The Sage’s Quest

AI Gone Rogue

The Electrician's Wife

The Sacred River

Life Reviews of Self-Destroyed Souls

Ahalya’s Echo

The Architect of Love

Yarra Ripper

A Jar Full of Delights

Ideas for a Better World: A Technologist's Blueprint

The AI Mirage

The Sage and the Serpent

The Twilight of My Life

The Sage's Legacy

The Lost Scrolls

The Fire Sermon

Janaloka's Calling

Red Bindi and Black Greed

Who Rocked My Boat?

Talking Things

The Quest for Eternal Flame

The Optimist's Dilemma

The Sage's Apprentice

The Yogi’s Moon

The Last Yuga

The River of Time

The Forest of Illusions

The Tech Interview Playbook: From DSA to System Design

Whispers of the Infinite

The Celestial Charioteer

The Light That Remains

AI Unhinged

The Rishi's Challenge

The Sage's Trial

Beneath the Parramatta Towers

The AI Hallucination

The Sage's Redemption

Thread of Fate

Rishis of the Forest

The Oracle of Ayodhya

The Loom of Justice

The Vagabond, The Violinist, and The Vixen

Veil of the Serpent

The Sage’s Vision

The Curse of Gautama

HumoRamayana

The Divine Messenger

The Baba Bank Debacle: Anatomy of an AI Disaster

Abyss of Pain

When the Pole Flips

Melbourne Mirage

The Rishi's Prophecy

Mastering GCP for Web Applications: A Well-Architected Approach to Cloud Excellence

Mastering Azure for Web Applications: A Well-Architected Approach to Cloud Excellence

The Vision of Renewal

Neon and Spice: The Valley Ascent

The Hidden Temple

Nymphs Down Under

The Divine Healer

The River Never Forgets

The Sidda’s Mirror

The Grey Shroud

Unseen Chains: Caged Taxpayers

The Celtic Yagna

Cloud Native by Design: Patterns and Best Practices for AWS

The Divine Artifact

The Poisoned Jacaranda

Parashurama’s Gauntlet

The Sage's Wisdom

The Enchanted Forest

The Divine Bridge

The Sage's Secret

Beyond The Ramayana

The Boy and the Bow

Perth's Parvati

Where Peanuts Sing

Cracking the Security Engineer Interview: 101 Interview Questions and Answers

Mastering AWS for Web Applications: A Well-Architected Approach to Cloud Excellence

The Sage’s Blessing

Whispers of Tapovan

I Too Had a Divorce Story

The Journey of Soul

The Parramatta Prince

The Sage's Journey

Kali's Curse

The Empty Seat

The Scarcity Mindset

The Scent of Survival

The Path to Forgiveness

The Yaksha's Quest

A Marriage of Secrets

Abhimanyu: The Agniveer

The Bridge to Patala

The Lotus and the Lightning

The AI Harvest

The Moonlit Penance

Love Across Yugas

The API of Truth

Muqut Mahal

Viral Grace of Krishna

The Healer’s Embrace

Shadow of the Sun

When the Shiraz Hit the Fan

Silk Sarees and Sin

Pro Se Judgment: Winning Your Case Without a Lawyer

Don't Call Me Goobe

Catch-482

AI Slop

The Misspelled Judge

AI/ML for Beginners

Digital Metamorphoses

NASDAQ to Neem Tree

The Rishi’s Gambit

The Golden Hum

A Bucket Full of Bribe

The Second Pilgrimage of Xuanzang

The Macedonian Ascetic

Jaya Hey Bengaluru Maate

The Patient's Instinct

Govinda Is Not Coming

The Falcon and the Flame

Dawn at Bondi Beach

The Accidental Ascetic

The Emperor’s Unpaid Debt

Daughter of Bangalore

The Silicon Twilight

Artificial General Intelligence

The Second Coming: An Audit of The Apostles

God Will See You Now

The Kong Man

The God Code

The Day It Rained Money

The Arjuna Belt

Banned for Truth: The Whistleblower's Nightmare

Kaikeyi’s Exiles: A Twisted Ramayana

Pangs of the Gopis

Whispers of the Sun

The Logic War

A Fire in the Blood

The Pakistani in the Mirror

P Equals NP

Blue Light Over Parramatta

Red Roses and Blue Jacarandas

Brisbane Brahma

Project Guardian

The Asura of Electronic City

Fatal Prompt

I'm Outta Here

Is Nobody Innocent?

The Man Who Sold Sleep

Beyond Redemption

The Ashwatthama Files

Blockchain of Souls

Cloud Wars

Bring Your Own Ravana

Billionaires to Beasts: A Karmic Redemption

Vibha and Baitali

The Astral Architect

Kurukshetra's Echo

The Son of the Wind and Sea

The Anti Ramayana

The Kalpa Chronicles

Sydney Aftershocks

Quantum Betrayal

The Singularity Dividend

Draupadi’s Dice

The Bong Blunder

The Great Silence

The Parramatta Perfumer

The Global Put

The Head on the Hill

Shattered Vows

Lage Raho Chunmun Bhai

Rainbow Wings

The Workplace Antagonists

Dance of the Fireflies

The Data Dancer

The Currency of Love

Santa's Last Christmas

Wings over Vrindavan

Conscious Code

NRI, Wanted

Chatbots at War

The Invisible Tenant

Saree, Not Saree

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