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Anurag Shrivastava

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Born
Motihari, India
Member Since
May 2013


Anurag Shrivastava is an Indian author and engineer, best known for his debut novel The Web of Karma. Born and raised in Motihari, East Champaran, Bihar, he completed his schooling amidst the quiet rhythms of his hometown before cracking the IIT JEE in 2005. He went on to pursue Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati, graduating in 2009, and has since been serving at Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) in Bhopal.
Writing is not merely a pursuit for him—it is a calling he answers even in the midst of a demanding professional life. His first novel, The Web of Karma, became an unexpected triumph, rising to the rank of Amazon #1 Bestseller in the Literature and Fiction category. Set against the turbulent socio-political backdrop of 1990s Bih
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Average rating: 4.24 · 231 ratings · 197 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Web of Karma

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“Even he himself, a moment later, was aghast at the curse that he had just spewed: it wasn’t his words… Maybe it was Karma who had sat upon his tongue, and put her curse on the family through him. Maybe it was Karma who had used him as an instrument to do the inevitable. Maybe it was Karma! Maybe!”
Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“Jealousy is one of the blackest emotions that humans possess: it stems out of weakness and ultimately bears the bitter fruits of wickedness, which quite often end up poisoning the innocent victims, who have never done any harm to the possessor.”
Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“The ant… the foolish ant,
sitting on the edge of an enormous disc
spinning about its axis,
reckons at every instant of time,
that it’s progressing forward.
Who would hold a mirror up to it?
And convey it the truth,
Clearing out its fallacy,
Clean as a hound’s tooth.
The fallacy that it can see
the whole dimension in entirety.
Shall it ever concede,
If one tries to enlighten?
Or, inured by canard shall it fight
To win against what is right?”
Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“Diverging from singularity, being became in plurality,
Entrapped in the web of karma, pivoted to the void.”
Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“Neither this one nor that one,
Truth is the entire spectrum;
The wholeness how can I see,
Unless the I-ness ceases to be.”
Anurag Shrivastava, The Web of Karma

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.”
G.I. Gurdjieff

“From the dawn of civilization, human beings have tried to find out order in the chaotic world surrounding them. It has however never been easy to find a solution to explain a given system while being a part of that system. The best bet is to find out the most fundamental components within the system and building a theory round these. In other words, a theory that is able to describe the world in totality has to keep the number of basic postulates it depends upon to zero or near zero.”
Subhajit Ganguly, Abstraction In Theory - Laws Of Physical Transaction

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