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	Defiant Dreams - Tales of Everyday Divas by Rhiti Bose (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Lopamudra Banerjee (Goodreads Author) (Compiler), Sanghamitra Bose (Goodreads Author) 4.51 avg rating — 37 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
	Mock, Stalk & Quarrel - A Collection of Satirical Tales by Indrani Ganguly (Editor), Deepti Menon (Goodreads Author), Ranjan Kaul (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 25 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
	Friendship Bonds Beyond Time by Saravanakumar Murugan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aashi Dahiya, Apurva Joshi 4.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	When They Spoke by Arpita Banerjee (Editor), Sanghamitra Bose (Goodreads Author), Ayan Pal (Goodreads Author) 4.60 avg rating — 15 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 Readomania Book of Romance by Aashisha Chakraborty (Goodreads Author), Anirban Nanda (Goodreads Author), Anupama Jain 4.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2020	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
	A Phase Unknown Woman- A Tribute #2 by Shreyasi Phukon (Goodreads Author) (Initiator Contributor), Dipali Sharma (Editor Contributor), Rajbir Gill (Guest Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	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 Readomania Book of Historical Fiction by Aashisha Chakraborty (Goodreads Author), Anirban Nanda (Goodreads Author), Bhaswar Mukherjee (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2020	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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Some of the stories are stunning; dark, humane and shocking. Black Cobras, Red Lungi, A Taste of Heaven, High Heels(the best story among the collection, I felt). Stories of everyday lives having extraordinary problems. Sometimes, I liked the phrasing ...more
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The writing is pretty sensuous for the time. This can be a good manual for writing explicit scenes without resembling pornography. Other than that, the story evolves on a backdrop of industrial evolution and the looking at romantic relationships from ...more
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It is about a story of man who sees himself travelling the world, doing wonderful things as a doctor. However, the strings of fate are not in his hands. He gets stuck in the village even though he always wanted to leave. He fell in love with Kusum wh ...more
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The story is deceptively modern and could be easily adapted into a Netflix contemporary. The story could have been a lot more dense. There was scope. With the curtailed story in this book, it felt like a short story, not a novel. Disappointed to see ...more
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The search for a house is not only about a house but a sense of identity, achievement, finding a root, putting a flag on a piece of land in this earth and own it, to have a place to go back after a long day, to be yourself. For Mr. Biswas, his quest ...more
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