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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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Let me be upfront about what I think about this novel: this is an important and greatly relevant piece of literature that raises some pivotal questions pertaining to the ultra-modern world we live in now. It’s a comparatively thin book and if you read without your smartphone nearby, you should be able to finish the …

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Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

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Death of clerk is astonishingly good.
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A depressing story. Couldn't have been more tragic. Chekov wouldn't agree. He thinks it's comedy. ...more
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Anirban Nanda rated a book really liked it The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov	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 sad little town becomes bustling when a migrating army battery sets tent. The constant desire to leave for the city from small town: the cold weather, and accompanying cold philosophy; unrequited love ... it feels the cold weather and lack of infot ...more
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Anirban Nanda rated a book it was amazing The Seagull by Anton Chekhov	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 seagull is a beautiful, melancholy play. The ambition of youth and the disappointment of not fulfilling them. A memento of analog time, being bored, hungry for information, the stark difference with the age of oversupply of info: it feels nostalg ...more
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Anirban Nanda rated a book really liked it Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Banu Mushtaq	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
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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