In "The Grey Shroud," a young Archivist inherits her grandfather's attic filled with trunks of wartime relics from his service as a Captain during a global conflict reminiscent of World War II. As she sorts through the dust-shrouded items, she uncovers a hidden portfolio revealing untold, bizarre, and horrifying truths about the war: a chemist's secret sabotage of a heavy water plant to thwart atomic ambitions, the reedy true voice of a tyrannical leader exposed on tape, sunken ships laden with unexploded ordnance near her city, elaborate deceptions like inflatable ghost armies and staged corpses carrying false intelligence, and unlikely alliances, such as enemy soldiers fighting alongside prisoners against fanatics. These discoveries shatter her orderly understanding of history, exposing the war's absurdities, cruelties, and moral ambiguities, from incendiary bats and anti-tank dogs to dark bargains with criminals and immunity for war criminals in exchange for scientific knowledge.
Driven by the revelation of a massive, still-live bomb in a nearby estuary?intentionally sunk through a hero admiral's conspiracy with an engineer?the Archivist grapples with the code of silence that protected these secrets for decades. Ultimately, she chooses to expose the truth by sending evidence to a newspaper, igniting a public scandal that upends her career and the city's complacency. The novella concludes with the "grey shroud" of postwar peace being lifted, forcing society to confront the lingering shadows of deception, heroism tainted by betrayal, and the explosive legacies of the past that continue to threaten the present.
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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.