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Adil_khan

Adil_khan

Joined June 2019

I like big books and I can't lie.
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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss | Rajeev Balasubramanyam
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Chandra Shekhar is a 69-year-old professor of economics who missed the Nobel prize. On a random campus walk, he hits a bicycle and suffers a heart attack. The doctor advises him to take less stress and follow his bliss. Whether he does so or not is revealed in the book. Prof. has two daughters, Jasmine and Radha, and one son, Sunil. He is more inclined toward his elder daughter, Radha. Over time there relationship grew bitter. #autumnplease

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If you cannot make it greater, atleast preserve it. Do not let things slide. #TATA #business #coffee

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The Handmaid's Tale | MARGARET. ATWOOD
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One of the best dystopian works I have came through that I even don't want to continue this keeping the intensity of work in mind. #handmaidstale #margaretatwood

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5g won't kill you. #5g #kiteaton #wtfis5g #joannawendel

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A Better India a Better World | N R Narayana Murty
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A series of lectures given by NR N murthy, the founder of infosys are compiled in this book.The topics include Education, entrepreneurship, important national issues and so on. Murthy believes that the poverty can only be eliminated by creating jobs. He also believes that globalisation can reduce the gap among countries and hence creat opportunities for all.
#india #abetterindiaabetterworld #nrnarayanmurthy

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It's a story of love, casteism, childhood, Marxism and more. There are two twin protagonists in it. A masterpiece exceptional in every way. #thegodofsmallthings #arundhatiroy

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It's a story of charles benetto a former baseball player and a failed salesman. He has got into drinking and wasn't invited in his daughters wedding coz he might creat a ruckus there. Now he wants to kill himself and in an attempt of doing he gets to spend a day with his dead mother who changes his perception of life. A heartwarming story.
#foronemoreday #mitchalbom

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The book narrates the various ups and downs in the life of author.

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DO EPIC SHIT. | ANKUR. WARIKOO
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It makes u more aware so that u make choices in life from a state of awareness and not ignorance.Highly insightful

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Talks about values, self-awareness, relationships, death and more.It's highly insightful and recommended.
#subtleartofnotgivingfuck #markmanson #life #awereness

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It is a book every social media user should once read. The author tells how to avoid social media in the current period. Social media has become a constant source of distraction . The book is clear and easy to understand. It is thus highly recommended.
#digitalminimalismus #calnewport #sunday #weekendreading #socialmedia

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M is for Autism | The Students of Limpsfield Grange School, Vicky Martin
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Its a story of M an autistic girl . she live with her Mom , who is very supportive for her . she faces hardships at school , other places due to autism . The story tries to send a message that anxiety is better to be managed than consider to be eradicated .

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. It's a Story of Gilda an anxious person who thinks herself and everyone around her dying. She is antisocial, lesbian who joins a catholic church as an employee. Later she falls in a mystery murder case of a former employee of the church
#everyoneinthisroomwillsomedaybedead #emilyaustin #death #lesbian #gender #anxiety #church #review

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A marvellous book by two outstanding researchers on the nature of poverty and how to end it.
#pooreconomics #abhijitbanarjee #december #economics #2021

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Emily is anxious as hell and full of dead vibes.

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Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss | Rajeev Balasubramanyam
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Professor Chandra is a wonderful character — stodgy, flawed, contentious, contemptuous — yet vulnerable, insecure, lonely, repentent, and ridiculous enough to win our sympathy.
#reading #december #profchandra #review #bookreading #yearending

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The book elaborates the pathology of fake and staged encounters ,the circumstances under which these killings take place and the complicity of the state machinery. It narrates the reality of an Indian democratic state whose agents arbitrarily kidnap ,torture, rape and kill for personal benefit or gratification and are given immunity for doing so under laws like AFSPA.
#indianauthor #bloodonmyhands #weekend

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A mouse is telling you a story to save himself from darkness. It's a story of a mouse, a rat and a poor girl . The mouse falls in love with a princess and wants to be become a knight of her. A rat living deep down in a dungeon in darkness falls in love of light. And a poor orphan girl wants to become a princess. Would they get what they want?the story would unravel it all.

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It is a humorous story of a Father turned son and vice versa by a magic stone brought from India. The father Mr. Paul Bultitude like any father wishes that he could be like his school-going son, dick(an unusual name), and dick wishes that he could become a grown-up adult.The father's now dick is sent to school where many events unfold,like a love letter sent by his son to the daughter of the principal.
#viceversa #weekend #bookreading #classics

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The poor get poorer, and the rich get richer and even get better, and stronger and even richer and the gap keeps increasing.

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Happiness is as elusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it might come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those precious moments, for they will not come your way very often.#Ruskinbond #notesfromasmallroom #weekendreading #sunday #lockdown

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I did not sleep last night, for you had kissed me. You held my hand and put it to your cheek and to your breasts. And I had closed your eyes and kissed them, and taken your face in my hands and touched your lips with mine. And then, my darling, I stumbled into the light like a man intoxicated, and did not say or know what people were saying or doing …‘ Gosh! #ruskinbond #fridaynight #reading

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The book includes 9 chapters to manage stress or anxiety. It also helps to diagnose mental health issues . The author has quoted the tips from many books on the said subject. From Netflix series to books on mental health, it mentions almost all. The principle which the author has repeated is "small changes can have a big impact". #mentalhealth #febbook #monthlyread #ailbhemalone #shortbook

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Moby-Dick | Herman Melville

And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid,— what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvellous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. #mobydick

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Katherine Johnson was a recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom. Research Mathematician by profession, she had played a major role in sending first human to Moon as it was her duty to do the trajectory maths of space craft .Katherine believed "Everything is math ".she once said , "It's just there. You are either right or you're wrong"

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The Confidential Agent | Graham Greene
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'Tell us a story?'asked shopkeeper.
'I don't know any stories',said the boy.
'That isn't possible', said the shopkeeper. 'Everyone knows at least one story, even if it is his own.'

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Necropolis | Anthony Horowitz
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This is series of fiction written by Anthony howowitz. The book is basically a fight between evil and good forces working in the contemporary time.It was new kind to me when I read this, I usually read palo Coelhos Novel.

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Islamic frontiers of China: Silk Road images | How Man Wong, Adel A. Dajani
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Being a Muslim, I always used to wonder how Islam reached to distant parts of world from saudia Arabia. I started this exploration by reading above book. The book tells how the great civilization of ancient times met , one developing in arab and other in China.

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