The book met mostly positive reviews. IBNLive hailed it as a "diabolically smart thriller".[1] It said "The 282-page book is gripping from start to finish. There are not many authors exploring this genre and Ray may have started a trend". Daily News and Analysis considered the end as "tour de force of masterful plotting".[2] Kanchan Gupta of The Pioneer felt "the weaving of stories into each other, the sequential introduction of characters, five experts who are brought in to investigate bizarre events inside the mine and who in turn confront the evil within them, is the work of a good literary craftsman".[3] The Telegraph made a rather ambivalent review saying the book had "all the elements of a jolly horror jaunt" and it also liked the twist in the end. But felt that the idea of death in closed spaces is rather old, and "many of the incidents are fantastic, requiring a willing suspension of disbelief".[4]
At a secret mining facility somewhere in the deserts of Rajasthan, an ancient place of worship, with disturbing carvings on its dome, is discovered buried deep inside the earth. Soon the miners find themselves in the grip of terrifying waking nightmares. One tries to mutilate himself. Worse follows.
Five experts are called in to investigate these strange occurrences. Sucked into a nightmare deep underground, they embark on a perilous journey; a journey that will change them forever, bringing them face-to-face with the most shattering truth of them all...
Arnab Ray, better known as Greatbong, is one of India's most widely read bloggers ( ). He is also the author of six books, including the horror classic: The Mine. Two of his books have been made into web-series on major OTT platforms: Sultan of Delhi in Hindi on Disney+ Hotstar and Mahabharata Murders in Bengali on Hoichoi. A Ph.D. in Computer Science from State University of New York at Stony Brook, he graduated from Jadavpur University in Kolkata and is currently based out of Los Angeles. Arnab Ray has a running column in Times of India and can be found on X (formerly Twitter) at @greatbong.
I am keenly interested in the quantification and characterization of subsurface spatial uncertainty specifically due to aleatory (random) geologic variability, which is an intrinsic property of the processes that created the geology. The primary application of my research is tunneling and underground construction. Through the use of geostatistical algorithms that have been developed for a wide variety of applications including geothermal, oil and gas, and mining, a modification of these algorithms for tunneling and underground construction enhances an understanding of potential uncertainty and risk assessment at all stages of the design and construction process. My work aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of risk and hazard in these industries, which in turn aids engineers and designers who decide to engage in these expensive, challenging, and risky projects.
My research revolves around the application of machine learning on stochastic earth models, specifically those from producing oil fields. The stochastic models used are MCMC and derived from AVA data. The goal of my work is to take the multiple output attributes and many earth models to train and predict production. Currently cross validation is being used to check accuracy and sensitivity. The end goal is to predict production across the field to determine economic areas within the reservoir.
My current research interest is implementing data science, statistical learning, and spatial statistics to interpret various Geophysical and Petroleum data for decision making. My current project focuses on performing wavelet analysis for feature extraction in hydraulic pressure data and implementing anomaly detection for screenout issues with machine learning model.
I am interested the application of data analytics and machine learning techniques to a wide variety of problems in geophysics. I am working on the integrating of geostatistics and machine learning to produce stochastic models of the reservoir. In addition, I am working on the application of dictionary learning to attenuate surface wave noise from land seismic data.
My research interests lie in the field of computational geophysics. I have been working on a variety of seismological projects to understand subsurface structure and earthquake dynamics with advanced computational techniques, such as FEM-based modeling of fault sliding and earthquake rupture, seismic inversion of DAS data, and application of deep learning methods in geophysical data analysis
Devibharathi is a widely read contemporary Tamil writer. The Solitude of a Shadow is the translation of his first novel, Nizhalin Thanimai. It is a minutely observed narrative about the overlapping hierarchies of caste, wealth, and power that the nameless protagonist finds himself grappling with.
With a cover befitting the penny dreadfuls of yore, this novel is about a secret mine in the deserts of Rajasthan that was an ancient place of worship. As the miners are traumatised by unknown fears here, five experts investigate the strange occurrences.
Through the voices of ordinary people far removed from Silicon Valley, this book explores the impact of powerful, flawed, and often exploitative technologies on society at large and asks the question: Can AI strip away our collective and individual sense of agency?
Drawing on ethnography in Bengaluru and Mumbai, Corruption Plots demonstrates how talk of corruption, land grabs, and slum evictions is leveraged to make sense of unequal spatial change and used opportunistically by those who are themselves implicated in wrongdoing.
We are studying nitrogen transformations in agricultural soils; beneficial microbe-mineral-plant interactions in reclaimed soils; and multi-functional biological crusts on arable soils. We combine molecular, microbiological, biochemical, microscopic, and mineralogical techniques to explore microbe-mineral-plant interactions.
Summer lab visitor Bernie Martir, who is an undergraduate engineering student at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, made needed renovations on 'Claude the Clod', our 4000x scale model of a soil macroaggregate with its associated organisms. Thanks to Bernie's engineering and artistic talents, Claude now sports much more realistic depictions of the springtail and mite, members of the two most abundant microarthropod groups in soils. Thanks, Bernie!
Tillage intensity and plant rhizosphere selection shape bacterial-archaeal assemblage diversity and nitrogen cycling genes
Soil and Tillage Research, Cloutier, Mara, Alcaide, Tiffanie, Duiker, Sjoerd, Bruns, Mary Ann, 2023
Recovery of waste nutrients by duckweed for reuse in sustainable agriculture: Second-year results of a field pilot study with sorghum
Ecological Engineering, Fernandez Pulido, Carlos, Caballero, Jonathan, Bruns, Maryann, Brennan, Rachel A., 2021
Innovative Technologies Can Improve Understanding of Microbial Nitrogen Dynamics in Agricultural Soils
Agricultural and Environmental Letters, Cloutier, Mara, Bhowmik, Arnab, Bell, Terrence H., Bruns, Mary Ann, 2019
Electrochemically active microorganisms from an acid mine drainage-affected site promote cathode oxidation in microbial fuel cells
Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, Rojas, Claudia, Vargas, Ignacio T., Bruns, Mary Ann, Regan, John M., 2017
Bacterial and eukaryal diversity in soils forming from acid mine drainage precipitates under reclaimed vegetation and biological crusts
Applied Soil Ecology, Rojas, Claudia, Gutierrez, Rosemary M., Bruns, Mary Ann, 2016
Land-use and land-cover effects on soil microbial community abundance and composition in headwater riparian wetlands
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Moon, Jessica B., Wardrop, Denice H., Bruns, Mary Ann V, Miller, R. Michael, Naithani, Kusum J., 2016