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Kanika Sharma

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Born

in New Delhi, India

Website

https://kanikasworldhome.wordpress.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Horror, Poetry, Contemporary

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September 2020

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HR Professional by the Day, Author by the Night. Kanika is a passed out of premium colleges like Sri Ram College of Commerce and Hindu College. She is also a Three time-Published Hachette Author, who recently cracked the code of traditional publishing when Hachette India selected her pitch for a collection of Short Horror Stories based on folklores from around the world called Creepy Crawlies (Kolkata Bookworm's ReaderChooce Winner) that too solely on merit without any Literary Agent.

She also an accomplished open mic artist, who has performed open verse and poetry on prestigious platforms like Spill Poetry, unErase, Habitat, Ghar , TaT, IndieOwl, Social House and Poems and Kahaniyan.

Her first novel was out, 'Bikram and Vithhal by Bluerose, ...more

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	Creepy Crawlies 4.28 avg rating — 32 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
	Bikram and Vitthal 4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	Memoirs-The Imperfections of My Life 4.57 avg rating — 21 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
	Select Poetry Collection by Kanika Sharma (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Dhawal Pandey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 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
	Days and Nights by Kanika Sharma (Goodreads Author), Namita Das (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 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
	Around the World by Kanika Sharma (Goodreads Author), Namita Das (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 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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	RIESENZELLEN IN VERSCHIEDENEN LÄSIONEN DER MUNDHÖHLE: ENTSTEHUNG, GESCHICHTE, KLASSIFIZIERUNG UND ROLLE VON RIESENZELLEN BEI ORALEN LÄSIONEN by Kanika Sharma (Goodreads Author), ANKAJ KRISHNATRE 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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गुप्त कहानियाँ: शु !!! किसी से ना कहना !! - भाग 5 (किसी से ना कहना ( अन्तर्वासना ) Book 6) (Hindi Edition)

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“Home is not to be mistaken with a house~ Home, Select Poetry Collection”
― Kanika Sharma, Select Poetry Collection

tags: emotion, home, hope, love, missing, nostalgia

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“I have a dream when it comes to us,
not a big ambition, but a small one right~ I have a dream, Around the World Anthology”
― Kanika Sharma, Around the World

tags: dream, emotions, love, relationship

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“A City where I grew up, I learnt to walk for the first time. A city whose landscape is sprawled with huge bungalows. Bungalows spread in acres, connected by adjacent roofs & pillars, or having a common verandah. Everyone connected literally and figuratively in one another’s life; No one willing to mind their own business ~ ~ A Tale of Two Cities, Days and Nights Anthology”
― kanika sharma, Days and Nights

tags: emotion, home, hope, lost, lost-souls, love, missing, new-york-city, nostalgia, souls

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“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

tags: dumbledore, philosophy

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

tags: love, simile

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“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

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