Killed with Kindness

1. Killed with Kindness  The book is bubbling with a sensational story of love principally between Aruna and Alok. They fell madly in love with each other in the prime of their youth when they were college students.  Their relation provoked and fomented by the parents of Aruna, consequently culminated into a marriage, a secret marriage initially, to the shock and trauma of the parents of Alok for the simple reason that they were not prepared for such an eventuality and to accept it.  Their idea about their son, they have brought in and brought up, has undergone a shocking transformation. He is no longer the son they have trained up and educated.  To begin with, they couldn't accept the phenomenon but they couldn't hold on to their stand either because of their deep love for their son.  More shock was in store for them all.  Nikhil, once jilted by Aruna, stormed into Aruna-Alok married relation taking advantage of Alok's long absence away to America and that of Aruna's profligacy and the flirting nature.  Nikhil retaliated on the dishonour ~ in the form of a refusal to marry him ~ meted out to him by Aruna in their early life before the entry of Alok in her life.  Finally, Alok had no other option than to separate him from her because of her betrayal of him and her flirtation with Nikhil.  A childhood friend of Alok and also of Aruna, Nikhil too didn't come forward to marry Aruna.  Alok got punished for no fault of his. He might have been punished for the simple reason of his reposing a boundless love and trust in her. About Author : A student of Sociology and Political Science from the University of North Bengal and the University of Calcutta, a doctorate in Political Sociology on UGC Teacher Fellowship, a Winner of prestigious UGC Projects and ICSSR Publication Grants (New Delhi), Prof. Ghose – already an author of six books (minus the present one), many papers and articles in various periodicals, journals and dailies (both in English and Bengali) ~ has had more than three decades of teaching experience at the college and university levels to his credit. The author's interests include, inter alia, Social Science and English Literature. It may be evident from a look at the author's list of books published or set to be published. The first, second, third and the fifth books are in the zone of Social Science while the fourth, sixth and the seventh books are in the zone of literature. Resident in mofussil West Bengal, India, he is devoted to writing, reading and speaking on his areas of interest out of his belief that “writing is both a solitary activity and a fulfilling process”.