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Vinayak is Currently Reading

Vinayak Hegde is currently reading

Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space

by Kevin Peter Hand

bookshelves: currently-reading, science, non-fiction, space, astronomy, biology, audiobook, hoopla, nature

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Apr 25, 2026 12:10PM

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The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855–1280 (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

by Vidya Dehejia

bookshelves: currently-reading, ebook, art, asia, india, hoopla, history, poetry

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Apr 09, 2026 01:55PM

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Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine

by Dervla Murphy

bookshelves: currently-reading, asia, travel, politics, non-fiction, cloudlibrary, middle-east, ebook, history

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Vinayak’s Quotes

“IF YOU ARE GOING TO EAT SHIT, DON’T NIBBLE”
― Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship

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“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“Maybe that is why we are all interested in the stories of others, especially the drastic ones. So we can vicariously experience what could very well have been our own story but for a quirk of fate.”
― Ajit Harsinghani, The Living Road

tags: life-lessons, travel

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“A vast army of government employees [Central, state and local government] of around 20 million are taken care by the remaining 380 million of the workforce, which also meets the extortionate and rent-seeking demands of the government employees.”
― R. Vaidyanathan, India Uninc.

tags: facts, statistics

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“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered. I think we would like to kill you ourselves before seeing you killed by the streets that America made. That is a philosophy of the disembodied, of a people who control nothing, who can protect nothing, who are made to fear not just the criminals among them but the police who lord over them with all the moral authority of a protection racket.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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