India, September 27, 2025: Sustainability and AI product leader Dr. Nripanka Das debuts as novelist Rowan Blackwood; his thriller The Babel Paradox heads to the Frankfurt Book Fair – a rare tech-to-literature pivot with global stakes. In the fluorescent hush of an office long past quitting time, the screen flashed a subject line that made him stand still: Frankfurter Buchmesse – Selection Confirmation. The air-conditioning thrummed. Somewhere, a coffee machine clicked. Dr. Nripanka Das – better known in energy-tech circles for taming data streams and carbon ledgers opened the email and read it twice, then once more for its edges. A quiet “okay" escaped him. He closed the laptop, reached for a notepad with draft scene beats in a spare engineer’s hand and underlined a single word: Real.

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