इस किताब में अतरंगी और विशद के बीच चली बातों के सिलसिले छोटे आकार के हैं, जिससे इसका नाम भारत कैफे: कटिंग चाय हो गया। ये तमाम पहली पुस्तक के साथ ही तैयार हुए, स्वरूप अलग होने से अलग किताब की शक्ल में आपसे रूबरू हैं। बस इतनी ही समानता पहले भाग से है कि मंतव्य पुरानी पुस्तक का है ताकि जब आप यह किताब पहले पढ़ें, आपको शून्य में न भटकना पड़े।
और हां, अतरंगी भाई का यहां दूसरा ही रूप निकल कर सामने आ रहा है, जिसके बारे में वादा किया था कि जल्द सामने आएगा, तो वह भी आ ही गया है। इसमें अतरंगी भाई के विद्रोही कवि - शायर रूप का प्रकटन खुल कर होता है। आनंद लीजिए।
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This book is the 'second part of Bharat Café'. If you’ve read the first one, great! If not, perhaps consider picking it up first. Then again, it doesn’t really matter - 'you can start with this one' and circle back to the first whenever you like.
Unlike the earlier book, the 'conversations between Atarangi and Vishad in this volume are shorter, more concise', hence the title—'Bharat Café: Cutting Chai'. These dialogues were conceived alongside the first book, but their 'distinct structure and essence warranted a separate volume'. The only connection to the previous book is 'its underlying intent', ensuring that even if you read this one first, you won’t feel lost in the void.
And yes—'Atarangi Bhai unveils a new avatar here', just as promised. This time, we see him emerge in his 'rebellious poet-philosopher form', his verses echoing with defiance and introspection. So, settle in and 'enjoy the experience'—this is Atarangi Bhai like you’ve never seen before.
VIVEK AGRAWAL, a journalist with 3 decades of vast experience in the field of crime, defense, legal & terrorism in all the dimensions of media. Since 1985, he actively started writing as a freelancer for the local, state & national newspapers and earned good name in the united Madhya Pradesh.
His career in the mainstream newspapers started in 1992 with Hindi tabloid ‘Hamara Mahanagar’ at Mumbai. In 1993, joined Hindi national newspaper ‘Jansatta’ as a crime reporter. He broke many big time stories in both the newspapers.
His broadcast media journalism days started with India’s First Views Channel ‘Janmat’ (Live India) as Bureau Head, Maharashtra-Goa. He was part of the team of channel ‘Mi Mrathi’. Then joined ‘India TV’ as an investigative journalist.
Vivek Agrawal joined as State Head with ‘News Express’. He cracked many stories of Mumbai Mafia, Terrorism, Financial Crimes and Homeland Security all these days.
He is now focusing on writing and documentary projects, consulting print and electronic media houses to establish & run news businesses with right directions and high esteem.
He is offering his services as a news broadcast channel / newspaper / magazine setup professional to news assessment editor to various new establishments across the nation.
26 books on true crime and other serious subjects written by Vivek. He is the country’s first and only researcher-true crime writer in Hindi language.
His books ‘Mumbhai‘ and ‘Mumbhai Returns‘ created quite a stir in the publishing industry and content field. The book ‘Mumbhai’ won the Maharashtra State Hindi Sahitya Akademi Award 2018 in Journalism Catagory. In the same year ‘Mumbhai’ stood #1 in the non-fiction category in the Jagran-Nielsen survey.
The novel Dattatraya Lodge stood 2nd in the Maharashtra Sahitya Academy, Jainendra Kumar Award 2021-22 in the Novel category.
His one of the bestselling book Bombay Bar translated into Punjabi.
He was Chief Content Coordinator for Documentary Money Mafia Season 3 on Discovery Plus.
He is into creative writing for the Films, TV Shows and Web Series. Scripted 2 films, many short films, TV Shows.
Many Film, Web Series, TV+, TV Shows and Podcast projects are underway based on his books or concepts. Not only Crime, Mafia, Terrorism, Mysteries, Social Crimes, Economic Crimes but Social & Entertaining subjects are also procured by studios / production houses.
Unique and startling concepts and stories for the entertainment shows are his strength.