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About The Book

A scalpel is meant to heal. In the wrong hands, it teaches death.
When a bus driver(Once aspiring to be a Doctor) turns the streets of South India into his anatomy classroom, bodies fall with surgical precision — jugulars severed, kidneys pierced, hearts silenced. Each stab is not frenzy but lesson, each corpse not accident but chapter. The police call him a psycho. The media christen him the Scalpel Killer. But in his mind, he is a teacher — and the syllabus ends only at fifty.
As states reel under terror, investigators clash, and the courts struggle to separate guilt from spectacle, Fifty Stabs unfolds as both thriller and allegory. It is a story of injustice turned to vendetta, of brilliance corrupted by denial, and of a society that creates its own monsters by refusing them their due.
From crowded temples to darkened barrages, from market marshlands to the corridors of power, the narrative is relentless — a tale of blood and philosophy, of law and loophole, of men broken by the very systems meant to shape them.
At once chilling and thought-provoking, Fifty Stabs forces us to confront a disturbing question:
When the system kills dreams, who carries the blame for the blood that follows?

About The Author

Dr. Anil Kumar Pankajakshan is a distinguished academic, storyteller, and keen observer of the human psyche. With over three decades of experience in teaching, research, and writing, he brings to his work a rare blend of clinical precision and narrative intensity. His interests straddle criminology, psychology, and the darker alleys of human behaviour—territories he explores with unflinching clarity.

A published author and respected educator, Dr. Anil Kumar is known for transforming real-world impulses, aberrations, and moral conflicts into gripping literature. ‘Fifty Stabs- The Anatomy of Death’ continues his foray into the anatomy of crime and the fragile boundaries between sanity and savagery.

He lives in Coimbatore, where he writes, mentors, and studies the minds that most people fear to confront.