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Abha Iyengar

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Memoir

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Neil Gaiman, Harper Lee, Leon Uris, Kafka,

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Abha Iyengar is an award winning, internationally published poet, author, essayist and a British Council certified creative writing mentor. Her work has appeared in Muse India, The Four Quarters Magazine, Kritya, Cha-An Asian Literary Journal, Bewildering Stories, Arabesques Review and others. She is a Kota Press Poetry Anthology Contest winner. Her haiku won her the 2nd Prize in Life Positive. Her story, The High Stool, was nominated for the Story South Million Writers Award. Her stories have been selected for A Rainbow Feast: New Asian Short Stories, The Asian Writer, Crime Scene Asia Vol.1 and The Unisun-Reliance Time Out anthologies. She has received the Lavanya Sankaran Writing Fellowship for 2009-2010. She also received the Mariner Aw ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 165 ratings · 44 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The Gourd Seller and Other Stories 4.25 avg rating — 8 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
	Flash Bites 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011 — 4 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
	Kintsugi: Flash Fiction First - Volume 1 by Abha Iyengar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aakshat Sinha, Aishwariya Laxmi 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2021	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 Tattoo At Her Throat: A Romantic Thriller really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 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
	Shrayan 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	SKIN: Flash Fiction First Volume 2 4.20 avg rating — 5 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 Full Platter 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2021	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
	Many Fish to Fry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
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	Big Daddy's Chair: Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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Prelude to a Riot

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Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life

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Half of What I Say

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Abha is now following Jean Shinoda Bolen Author of Goddesses in Everywoman
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Abha rated a book really liked it Em and The Big Hoom by Jerry Pinto	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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The Woman whom we meet on the red oxide floor is perhaps every woman’s agonized self as she tries to rebel against the incomprehensible societal forces that remove her sense of self as an individual and relegate her to the status of a ‘housewife’ who ...more
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Ruminations of a Vet by Dr. R. Unnikrishnan makes for an interesting read, especially for someone like me who had no idea of the world a vet occupies. Indeed, this book is an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up to read. I edited this manuscript, an ...more
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Ruminations of a Vet by Dr. R. Unnikrishnan makes for an interesting read, especially for someone like me who had no idea of the world a vet occupies. Indeed, this book is an eye-opener for anyone who picks it up to read. I edited this manuscript, an ...more
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“This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.”
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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic

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