In a dystopian world, technology has taken over. “One platform for all” ensures there is no privacy anymore, everyone is a slave of their own digital life. Siddhanth, a refugee in hiding, and Rhea, a brilliant software engineer meet by fate and embark on an adventurous journey through ‘Toggle’- a Conglomerate almost ruling the world.
“Is technology making lives easier or is it a slow poison strangling humanity?” as Rhea begins to question it all, Syd has his own demons to deal with. The duo is astounded at deducing that society’s darkest minds are connected through a network to have their machinations come to life as justice for the rest of the society.
As Rhea and Syd try to survive the surreal reality, Toggle will not entertain people meddling with their convoluted plans...
Nilutpal Gohain is a Government servant currently serving as Assistant Registrar of Cooperative Societies for the Government of Assam. He did schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Nagaon. During his school days, he won the First Prize of the Kavi Sammelan for three years in a row till he passed out in 2009. He was also the Vice-Captain of the Regional Kabaddi Team that represented the Guwahati Region (encompassing Vidyalayas from Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and North Bengal) in the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan National Sports Meet in 2003 held at Pune.
He graduated in engineering from Vels University, Chennai in 2009 and worked at sea as a Marine Engineer with K Lines Ship Management before moving ashore. In 2014, he joined Canara Bank as a Probationary Officer and worked for about a year as the Assistant Manager and later as the branch-in-Charge of an Urban Branch. In 2015, he cleared the Assam Civil Service and joined the Allied Service of the Cooperation Department of Assam. Since then he has been in his current job.
He started his literary journey in 2017 after finishing his quest for bread and butter. Many of his poems and short stories have been published in print and e-journals such as Muse India, Spillwords, Setu-the bilingual, The Hans India, Poets India, Youth ki Awaz etc. His short stories have been published in many anthologies out of which ‘A Book Called Home’, ‘City of Screams’ (both published by Half Baked Beans) ‘A Fallen Leaf’ and ‘Shattered’ are worth mentioning.
Nilutpal was one of the winners of the first edition of the Co-Author Project conducted by Half baked Beans and as an outcome of the project, he co-authored a dystopian thriller ‘2035’ with Shruti Jain (A resident of Canada). The book is doing well with positive reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. The book also won the Best Sci-Fi Novel for the year 2021 by Sharing Stories Book Awards.
Nilutpal loves to give a fictional makeover to real-life incidents as his Leo instinct of being diligently observant seldom fails him. He believes in perception rather than reality as one person’s truth might be a lie for someone else. When he is not writing, he is usually found in the kitchen trying out a new recipe.
