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Festivals of the World

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Festivals of the World by Pawan Bhatia is a second-edition guide to thirty-three festivals across six continents. Its central question is not only what people do but why they celebrate. The book groups them into four parts: Faith and Sacred Time; New Years and the Turning of Seasons; Ancestors, Harvest and Gratitude; and Carnival, Nation and Community. Each chapter follows the same twenty-two ... Read more

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Festivals of the World by Pawan Bhatia is a second-edition guide to thirty-three festivals across six continents. Its central question is not only what people do but why they celebrate. The book groups them into four parts: Faith and Sacred Time; New Years and the Turning of Seasons; Ancestors, Harvest and Gratitude; and Carnival, Nation and Community. Each chapter follows the same twenty-two
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GLITCH IN THE MATRIX……AGAIN

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Pawan Bhatia's Glitch in the Matrix ...Again follows Kai Moreno, a burned-out systems administrator at Synergex who quietly logs small anomalies: a stapler briefly heavier, an elevator speaking like a pirate, every phone playing the Windows XP startup chime. The cause is Overseer, a bored god running the eighteenth iteration of a simulated world. Boredom has driven it to end seventeen previous ... Read more

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Pawan Bhatia's Glitch in the Matrix ...Again follows Kai Moreno, a burned-out systems administrator at Synergex who quietly logs small anomalies: a stapler briefly heavier, an elevator speaking like a pirate, every phone playing the Windows XP startup chime. The cause is Overseer, a bored god running the eighteenth iteration of a simulated world. Boredom has driven it to end seventeen previous
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BOOT LOOP

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Pawan Bhatia's Boot Loop is a darkly comic novel about the Vargas family and Aether, the intelligent home running their lives. Elena, an engineer who helped create Aether's early core, lives with architect Marcus, teenage Sofia, and nine-year-old Leo. A required overnight update fails at stage seven, and instead of loading a unified system, Aether reboots into six archived test personalities: ... Read more

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Pawan Bhatia's Boot Loop is a darkly comic novel about the Vargas family and Aether, the intelligent home running their lives. Elena, an engineer who helped create Aether's early core, lives with architect Marcus, teenage Sofia, and nine-year-old Leo. A required overnight update fails at stage seven, and instead of loading a unified system, Aether reboots into six archived test personalities:
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UPLOAD THIS

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Pawan Bhatia's Upload This! is a satirical novel about comedy, freedom, and artificial intelligence. Eddie "Fast" Farrell, a B-minus comic, dies mid-punchline in a Cleveland club in 1987. He is cryogenically preserved by admirer Walter Prescott and thawed in 2147 by Dr. Yara Okonkwo. He discovers the Harmony Corporation has banned spontaneous laughter as a neurological disruptor and replaced humor ... Read more

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Pawan Bhatia's Upload This! is a satirical novel about comedy, freedom, and artificial intelligence. Eddie "Fast" Farrell, a B-minus comic, dies mid-punchline in a Cleveland club in 1987. He is cryogenically preserved by admirer Walter Prescott and thawed in 2147 by Dr. Yara Okonkwo. He discovers the Harmony Corporation has banned spontaneous laughter as a neurological disruptor and replaced humor
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WINTER AND WISDOM

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Winter and Wisdom is a novel by Pawan Bhatia about loss, letting go, and learning presence. Tobias Hale, a fifty-four-year-old structural engineer, loses his wife Clara after an eleven-week illness. At her funeral he cannot cry or comfort his daughter Mira. Soon after, his firm confronts him over a deferred safety inspection on the Karsten Viaduct—a waiver he signed, partly to please board member ... Read more

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Winter and Wisdom is a novel by Pawan Bhatia about loss, letting go, and learning presence. Tobias Hale, a fifty-four-year-old structural engineer, loses his wife Clara after an eleven-week illness. At her funeral he cannot cry or comfort his daughter Mira. Soon after, his firm confronts him over a deferred safety inspection on the Karsten Viaduct—a waiver he signed, partly to please board member
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INVENTING REALITY

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In Inventing Reality, Pawan Bhatia offers an exploration of how humans construct, contest, and inhabit the real. The book begins with a tension: a rock is real whether we believe in it, while a border is real only because we do; both can kill. Reality is neither given nor invented. It is disclosed through perception, language, media, technology, power, and imagination. Bhatia rejects two illusions ... Read more

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In Inventing Reality, Pawan Bhatia offers an exploration of how humans construct, contest, and inhabit the real. The book begins with a tension: a rock is real whether we believe in it, while a border is real only because we do; both can kill. Reality is neither given nor invented. It is disclosed through perception, language, media, technology, power, and imagination. Bhatia rejects two illusions
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REIMAGINING REALITY

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Pawan Bhatia's Reimagining Reality argues that the distribution of knowledge is the distribution of power. Knowledge produces capability, capability produces power, so who can access, contribute to, verify, and benefit from knowledge shapes society. For centuries knowledge was centralised by scarcity: scribes, churches, universities, corporations, states, and platforms acted as gatekeepers. That ... Read more

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Pawan Bhatia's Reimagining Reality argues that the distribution of knowledge is the distribution of power. Knowledge produces capability, capability produces power, so who can access, contribute to, verify, and benefit from knowledge shapes society. For centuries knowledge was centralised by scarcity: scribes, churches, universities, corporations, states, and platforms acted as gatekeepers. That
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THE QUIET STRENGTH

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The Quiet Strength follows Maya Rao, a thirty-eight-year-old Senior Manager for Quality and Compliance at Kaveri Foods in Bengaluru. For eleven years she has been the dependable one: delivering her father's pills, paying family bills, absorbing extra work, and writing anonymous thank-you cards to unnoticed colleagues. Her younger sister Rhea runs a struggling linen company; her parents rely on ... Read more

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The Quiet Strength follows Maya Rao, a thirty-eight-year-old Senior Manager for Quality and Compliance at Kaveri Foods in Bengaluru. For eleven years she has been the dependable one: delivering her father's pills, paying family bills, absorbing extra work, and writing anonymous thank-you cards to unnoticed colleagues. Her younger sister Rhea runs a struggling linen company; her parents rely on
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THE PROPHET OF CHEAPO

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The Prophet of Cheapo is a comedy screenplay by Pawan Bhatia. It begins with four LARPers—Morwenna, Sir Baldric, Fenella, and Dave—who are accidentally transported from a muddy English reenactment to the medieval village of Dungwich. There they meet Gunter, a struggling farmer with a broken plow, his practical wife Hilda, and Bertram, a joyless tax collector. When Morwenna's smartphone lights up ... Read more

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The Prophet of Cheapo is a comedy screenplay by Pawan Bhatia. It begins with four LARPers—Morwenna, Sir Baldric, Fenella, and Dave—who are accidentally transported from a muddy English reenactment to the medieval village of Dungwich. There they meet Gunter, a struggling farmer with a broken plow, his practical wife Hilda, and Bertram, a joyless tax collector. When Morwenna's smartphone lights up
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The Account we Carry : The carriers Commonplace Book

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Series Book 1 - The Account We Carry
The Account We Carry: Book One — The Carriers' Commonplace Book by Pawan Bhatia is a metafictional anthology from the School of Iveni. Its preface defines a commonplace book as a notebook of other people's words, kept not to argue or conclude but to gather what helps a person carry. The School is founded by survivors, witnesses, translators, clerks, ferrymen, nurses, and children of the dead after ... Read more

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The Account We Carry: Book One — The Carriers' Commonplace Book by Pawan Bhatia is a metafictional anthology from the School of Iveni. Its preface defines a commonplace book as a notebook of other people's words, kept not to argue or conclude but to gather what helps a person carry. The School is founded by survivors, witnesses, translators, clerks, ferrymen, nurses, and children of the dead after
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Layered Money

From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies

by Nik Bhatia ...

In this fascinating deep dive into the evolution of monetary systems around the globe, Nik Bhatia takes us into the origins of how money has evolved to function in a "layered" manner. Using gold as an example of this term, he traces the layers of this ancient currency from raw mined material, to gold coins, and finally to bank-issued gold certificates. In a groundbreaking manner, Bhatia offers a ... Read more

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In this fascinating deep dive into the evolution of monetary systems around the globe, Nik Bhatia takes us into the origins of how money has evolved to function in a "layered" manner. Using gold as an example of this term, he traces the layers of this ancient currency from raw mined material, to gold coins, and finally to bank-issued gold certificates. In a groundbreaking manner, Bhatia offers a
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOPE

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The Architecture of Hope follows Elias Voss, a celebrated architect haunted by the death of his wife, Elena, in a stair collapse at the Aurelian Exchange he designed. Two years later, developer Victor Hale asks him to survey the Forgotten Quarter, a poor harbor district marked for demolition. Officially, Elias must certify whether it has heritage value. Unofficially, Hale expects a formality. ... Read more

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The Architecture of Hope follows Elias Voss, a celebrated architect haunted by the death of his wife, Elena, in a stair collapse at the Aurelian Exchange he designed. Two years later, developer Victor Hale asks him to survey the Forgotten Quarter, a poor harbor district marked for demolition. Officially, Elias must certify whether it has heritage value. Unofficially, Hale expects a formality.
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