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Elixir Sengupta, Sinjini Paperback – 2 December 2017

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Where does our mind go, when we fall asleep? Can dreams weave a layer of parallel existence? Can there be another reality beyond all that we touch, see or feel?

It is a normal day for Manisha. She wakes up from sleep and goes to work. On her way back home, she walks into a coffee shop. The cafe is empty but for an old man behind the counter and another man at a corner table. Later in the night, this man comes back to her in her sleep and then, every night thereafter. A new journey begins and a transcendence. A story weaves itself around a life unfulfilled and a destiny, beautiful and fated.

But... where does this journey lead her to? Will Manisha be able to find her way through these parallel worlds?

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An alumnus of the Indian Statistical Institute, Sinjini spent several years of her working life as an Actuary, clearing difficult exams and designing, pricing and reserving for insurance policies, before she took a career break in 2015 to revive her long-dead passion for writing. Writing didn’t disappoint her, either. Within just a year or two, Sinjini went on to win quite a few coveted national and international awards. As a poet, Sinjini won the National-level English poetry contest—Rhyme India—hosted by Times of India in 2016. Several of her poems got selected and published in the poetry anthology She—The Shakti. One of her short stories themed on Nature writing won the prestigious South Asia FON contest and is soon to be published in an international anthology. The screenplay of Elixir won her the Best Screenplay award from among 550-plus films internationally. As a columnist, Sinjini was awarded the coveted Orange Flowers Awards 2016 (Runners-Up) for her social columns. She writes mainly on gender issues, social reforms and sensitive parenting in a plethora of publications, such as the Huffington Post, Youth Ki Awaaz, Anandabazaar Patrika, Readomania, Feministaa, Women’s Web, MyCity4Kids, SBCLTR, Bonobology and several other popular publications. Sinjini was conferred the ‘Iconic Woman’ award at the international Women Economic Forum in May, 2017. She serves as the Gurgaon Chairperson for Readers and Writers of All Ladies League. Sinjini was recently featured by ICICI Bank as one of the ‘Inspirational Women of India’ in the Fund Your Own Worth initiative. Sinjini lives in Gurgaon with her husband Anirban Guha, a banker by day and a filmmaker by night and Roopkatha, their six-year-old grandmother-cum-daughter cum-spiritual guru.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Readomania (2 December 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 264 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9385854542
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9385854545
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 200 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20 x 14 x 4 cm
Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

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An alumna of Indian Statistical Institute, Sinjini Sengupta is an erstwhile Actuary and now an author, columnist, professional speaker, Distinguished Toastmaster and a multiple times TEDx speaker. She is the founder of LIGHTHOUSE.

Her interviews, profile, columns and book has been featured by India Times, Huffington Post, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, The Statesman, Asian Age, Telegraph, Hindustan Times, ICICI Bank Women’s initiative, Toastmasters International and many others. As a speaker, Ms. Sengupta is regularly invited to various national and international conferences, literary and film festivals, educational institutes, business schools and corporate organisations to deliver keynotes, masterclasses and workshops. More recently, she spoke at:

• TEDx - Meerut

• TEDx - Maitreyi College, New Delhi

• 8th National HR conference (XLRI Jamshedpur)

• 3rd International Symposium - NDIM & Pepperdine university, California

• TEXILA 6th World Conference for Scholars

• Women Economic Forum

She has been felicitated with a number of national and international awards, some of which are:

• Karamveer Chakra Award (Silver) and Global Fellowship

(a global civilian honour given by the international confederation of NGOs (iCONGO) in partnership with United Nations)

• Shortlisting of ELIXIR among 5 best books of 2017 – GLF 2018

• Exceptional Woman of Excellence – Women Economic Forum 2018

• Iconic Woman Award – Women Economic Forum 2017

• Finalist at Quarter-finals of the World Championship of Public Speaking 2017

• Finalist at District Finals of Impromptu Speaking 2018

• Best screenplay award (ELIXIR)– from 550+ films internationally - 2017

• Screening of ELIXIR at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, 22nd Kolkata International Film Festival, and many others

• Featured by ICICI Bank in their Advantage Woman Initiative - 2017

• South Asia Fellows of Nature anthology winner (anthology publication)

• Rhyme India winner – National level English poetry contest by Times of India

• Orange Flower Award – 2016

• Featured among Top 10 women bloggers in India by Women’s Web

ABOUT LIGHTHOUSE –

Lighthouse is a social enterprise which envisions a world that works for all. Its mission is to create a virtuous cycle of change, with focus on Emotional Wellness, Gender Sensitivity and Personal transformation. Lighthouse works with individuals, students, parents, communities and workplaces.

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Saurav Paul
This is poetry in form of prose. Savour it!
Reviewed in India on 29 January 2018
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Elixir is a journey into a woman's psyche and the author has deployed nature, and marital complications, and societal stigmas to add a marvellous blend to the plot. Though there are many books in this genre but Sinjini's use of metaphors and lyricsm makes the narration unique. Though Elixir is about a dream, it maintains perfect connection with mundane earth and the its hard realities - be it related to office, home, relationships, carnal desires or depression. The reader, at times, cannot help but close the book and solemnly draw parallel with his/her own life.
Every subplot is developed with utmost care and groundwork to establish every character make one wonder if this is indeed Sinjini's first novel or her 50th! Her meticulous research on everything - right from home interiors to sculpting is amply evident as well.
Though I did feel Amit's character could have been tad less negative, one cannot deny that Sinjini has done sufficient justice in genuine portrayal of both lead characters.
Finally - you'll mistake if you think it's about dreams and women. Though Elixir is about a woman, a man must read it. 'Coz we, men, need to reminded the most what a woman truly needs.

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Jyoti Y.
Poetic, Intriguing, and Spine-Chilling
Reviewed in India on 12 April 2022
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Love, marriage, mental health, the dreams that we see with open eyes and the ones that we see while sleeping, and then there are some dreams that we forcefully induce as an (only) escape- this novel is all about this and more. It’s poetry in parts and asks intriguing questions, only to leave them unanswered while leaving your mind boggled, in wonder, and at times in awe. The author digs deeper into how one’s (everyone’s) mental health has deep associations with childhood. How we all crave some (one) person who in all honesty gives us their ears for some deep attentive listening. This novel is an exploration of our deepest desire to be heard. To be validated. Finally, it is a story of acceptance of oneself in all its glory and grime. The duality of reality and imaginary gets scary. It is, eerie. If shallow is not your thing and you are a person of depth, then it is a novel you must read to get your deepest emotions evoked.

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Poetic, Intriguing, and Spine-Chilling

Reviewed in India on 12 April 2022
Love, marriage, mental health, the dreams that we see with open eyes and the ones that we see while sleeping, and then there are some dreams that we forcefully induce as an (only) escape- this novel is all about this and more. It’s poetry in parts and asks intriguing questions, only to leave them unanswered while leaving your mind boggled, in wonder, and at times in awe. The author digs deeper into how one’s (everyone’s) mental health has deep associations with childhood. How we all crave some (one) person who in all honesty gives us their ears for some deep attentive listening. This novel is an exploration of our deepest desire to be heard. To be validated. Finally, it is a story of acceptance of oneself in all its glory and grime. The duality of reality and imaginary gets scary. It is, eerie. If shallow is not your thing and you are a person of depth, then it is a novel you must read to get your deepest emotions evoked.

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Debbie Banerjee
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Reviewed in India on 3 January 2018
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It's every woman's journey. While reading it you totally get transported in another world. If you love reading you won't be able to put the book down before you finish.

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Amit Sharma
A Wonderful read
Reviewed in India on 6 January 2018
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Elixir is an exhilarating journey into a woman's mind who lives in two worlds. Manisha has everything and nothing. She craves for intimacy and warmth and thus enters into a world that gives her what her heart desires. At one point, her real world becomes the nightmare she doesn't want to wake up to.
Haven't we all felt that? At times, when we are dreaming, the dream is so lucid that we mistake it for reality. We want to be there forever.
The story flows like poetry. The imagery, the language, the prose - they all point to the brilliance of Sinjini as an author. She dwells deep into Manisha psyche and at one point in the book, you realize that you 'know' the protagonist. As the book progresses, she slowly gets under your skin.
Her lover, the person she runs to, is another brilliant character in the book. He doesn't speak much but every time Manisha is with him, you feel the warmth and love. You root for them to be together.
This is a book you must pick if you like reading stories with fleshed out characters and lyrical language.

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Kamalini Reena Natesan
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Reviewed in India on 18 April 2018
Elixir, a book within a book

So I finished Elixir, the debut novel by Sinjini Sengupta. I did not finish it at one go, and I’d like to confess, I was floating away in my first attempt; the writing was languorous and soporific, despite Manisha’s hard trials at work, both inside her being, and outside of it. Amit’s strange and insensitive conduct also got to me. Lost, are we? Well these are the two main characters in Sengupta’s ELIXIR, an interesting read to boot, and one that cast a spell of sorts on me- however during my second inning.
Is it truly possible to live a life parallely- i.e, can you actually step into another full-blown existence, even as you are trying to do justice to the one that you had been born into? Is it truly even conceivable? Well, Sengupta does a fine job of pushing the suspension of belief envelope, that anything is possible once you taste of it-and discard that voice that repeatedly says, nah, not possible! You embrace it head-on. I am a believer of parallel existences, have always been.
The first half of Sinjini’s debut novel is a bit like Bangla poetry, it whets your appetite. You need to put it away to fully savour what she is trying to build your literary and hungry mind up to. Once you’ve gotten over that ‘hump’ , if I may call it that, you are onto something rather magnetic- you inch along, then you are on a ride that has you by the….stirrups. You want to live Manisha’s parallel life with her- it’s beautiful, riddled with watery drops of romance, and perfumes and love and all that makes life a living heaven. But you return to Manisha’s ‘real world’, the one she must tackle, along with interacting with her blameless husband, who knows no better, boil tea in her kitchen, peek into her fridge, and mix with her professional colleagues. Well what do you know, Moni, as her father lovingly calls her, is quite the gal! She takes it all on, begrudgingly, but not all the time. She knows she wants out- she doesn’t want to re-enter the real world, but who’s going to buy her tale, definitely not the very worldly Amit. He’s befuddled, and he strikes out, using psychiatric means too.
What we have here is a novel with a stark message. Is the message obvious? To me it was. And the distinction lies in the fact that I am being made aware of the fact, that I am perhaps, also living parallel lives, but not with dissonance, which is what allows me to survive each day. Sinjini is telling the reader that it’s perfectly natural to live thus- and that real and infinite possibilities of such like exist. I believe her. I also believed Richard Bach in his novel named ONE, when he and his wife travelled through different dimensions of existence. So why can Manisha, creature hacked by Sinjini’s mind, not do likewise? Sure can too.
Sinjini’s flair for poetic prose, and her deep relationship with rain-water is superbly harvested in this novel. I could almost hear Robindro Shongeet playing in the background- no, not almost, I did hear it. My parallel life peeps into this one, and vice versa as I put away Elixir, and sip from a glass of cold water, to suppress the rising heat. Also, i might have failed to mention the fact that this was a screenplay, that Sengupta has deftly ‘rewritten’ as a full novel, no mean task this. I, even as i enjoy the art of writing, would not attempt such like. More power to Sinjini Sengupta and creative mind!

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Kanchana Banerjee
Beautiful language & a wonderfully written book!
Reviewed in India on 18 December 2018
When the lines between reality and dreams get blurred, what happens? In this book the author takes the reader on a journey which is profoundly sad yet fulfilling. the poetic prose and vivid imagery of the language is very impressive. the author draws you into Manisha's world and the reader becomes a part of her reality and dreams. This isn't a book you read in a hurry. Savour it gradually and enjoy the beauty of the language as you flip the pages. I am eagerly waiting for more books from the author.

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she was happy. How this transformation happened and what was her ...
Reviewed in the United States on 22 January 2018
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Elixir is the debut novel of Sinjini Sengupta. I have been following her blog for a long time. There is a pattern in her writing. Her characters are real, and yet their fates are sometimes not what we see everyday. But, if you look deep into the characters, their fates are what our everyday fears are. Sinjini brings out such a fear of loneliness in this book.

The protagonist, being ignored by her husband and in this eternal cycle of career and family, started losing out on herself. She first suffered from depression and then transferred herself to a different land, where she was no more lonely, she was happy. How this transformation happened and what was her fate forms the crux of this story.

Sinjini's writing is lucid and pacy. You'll never feel bored of this book. She adds her personal touch to the book with references to Denver's songs. I wish she had put "Tamasha" as well.

All in all, you won't be disappointed. Go give it a try

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