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	Timepass-Story of Internet Addiction by Amit Joshi (Goodreads Author), Nandan Kumar (Editor), Abhyudaya Shrivastava (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chhote Shehron Ka Aakash 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Death of a Dentist: A Humourous Murder Mystery really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lying Through My Teeth it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Whole Tooth: And Nothing But The Tooth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lying Through My Teeth: Three Girls and One Broken Heart 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Communal Tensions in Mangalore

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This year in February, I went along with my wife to a small trip to Karnataka for some stress-bustin’. Our stops included Mangalore, Udupi, Murudeshwar and Gokarna. Now the air over the past few months has turned heavier than before or so my short-term memory serves. Topics that involve Hindu-Muslim conflict have started dominating the News cycles and it is i

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Abhyudaya Shrivastava and 5 other people liked Prachi Gupta's review of Simple Passion: "My first Ernaux! I want to read everything written by her, preferably multiple times. I know I'll be returning to this one time and again. Here's a longer review: I read this book twenty days ago and I still keep thinking about it. I find myself wanting" Read more of this review »
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While reading this novel, I was acutely aware of the pertinence of this work of literature. It is a politically charged novel written as a sharp commentary on the era of Emergency and the society of those times. It is written with a sense of purpose. ...more
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Abhyudaya Shrivastava is on page 546 of 603 of A Fine Balance: Suddenly it has started making sense. The hyperbole was not without purpose. I feel an anger against caste violence, discrimination and disbalaned power structures in India. It is an incredibly sad book but that's because the author seems to be incredibly angry with the status quo. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry progress:	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Abhyudaya Shrivastava wants to read A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Abhyudaya Shrivastava and 2 other people liked Amisha's review of Verity: "Okay… wow. Verity was a wild ride from start to finish. Colleen Hoover doesn’t just tell a story, she gets under your skin, making you second-guess every character’s motive and your own gut reaction. The tension pulled me in, but it was the eerie psy" Read more of this review »
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Abhyudaya Shrivastava and 3 other people liked Annie Zaidi's review of The Blind Owl: "A strange novel. Sits (in a literary vein) on an eastern surrealist shelf and it reminded me in parts of Naiyer Masud's Seemiya, and perhaps even Khalid Jawed's Nematkhana. Though it is not really 'like' these other Urdu novels. The Blind Owl achieve" Read more of this review »
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