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  1. Essie and the Quantum Cat
    Essie and the Quantum Cat
    Imaginary Conversations with Schrödinger, His Cat, and Mine
    Elan Moritz

    Essie, A black cat named after Erwin Schrödinger. She is the author’s imaginary quantum companion, critic, coauthor, box inspector, manuscript referee, and chief defender of feline sovereignty. Essie is the book’s guardian against careless analogy, false profundity, and underfilled bowls. Vienna, or perhaps Oxford, or perhaps no actual city at all: a room with a blackboard, a table, several pieces of apparatus, and a box that has not yet understood the trouble it is about to cause. Schrödinger stands with chalk in hand. A black cat sits on the table, washing one paw with insulting calm. ... Schrödinger My dear cat, I have been thinking.Cat That is usually when trouble begins.Schrödinger Not trouble. Clarification. A thought experiment.Cat For whom?Schrödinger For physicists.

  2. Caught at 100 KBPS
    Caught at 100 KBPS
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    She solves the crime perfectly. The criminal is cornered. Then her internet drops to 100 KB/s.In Mumbai, even justice has buffering issues.

  3. Flat Mated
    Flat Mated
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    In Sydney’s cutthroat rental market, love isn’t tested by fate — it’s tested by rent money. When desperate couples invite charming, good-looking housemates into their already cramped homes, financial survival collides with raging paranoia. What begins as a practical solution quickly spirals into a hilarious nightmare of hidden husbands, baby-monitor espionage, seismic sensors, and Excel-tracked jealousy.Because in this city, nothing kills a relationship faster than the thought of affording it alone.

  4. The Asura of Electronic City

    Eons after the flames of Lanka, the ancient stage reopens in the chilled, fluorescent heart of Bengaluru’s Electronic City. CEO Chaddichandan rules from his 40th-floor glass throne of leather and server hum, while twenty reborn souls—now female engineers and analysts—labour in the cubicle farms, unconsciously carrying the weight of an unpaid debt. In this sleek corporate retelling, time, dignity, and power are once again appropriated, and the cycle is finally ready to be settled.

  5. How Not to Kill Tagore
    How Not to Kill Tagore
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    In smog-choked 1937 Calcutta, a penniless radical vows to kill Rabindranath Tagore for supposedly selling “Jana Gana Mana” to the British King. What follows is four years of the most spectacularly inept assassination attempts in history—each one derailed by banana peels, exploding sweets, vengeful cobras, and mountains of cow dung. A riotously funny, banana-slipping comedy of errors that ends on Independence Night with laughter, redemption, and one final, perfect pratfall.

  6. Eat, Slurp, Ascend
    Eat, Slurp, Ascend
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    In Chinmoy Mukherjee’s biting satire Eat, Slurp, Ascend, devoted cultist Chunmun Singh seeks cosmic enlightenment through his noodle-worshipping guru's ultimate "Great Astral Slurp." But when a wild astral journey across fourteen divine realms exposes the MSG-scented lies of his faith, Chunmun must choose between comforting delusions and the bitter taste of reality. Discover a hilarious, multisensory tale that expertly skewers modern spiritual commodification and the absurdities of blind devotion.

  7. Balled
    Balled
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    Nitin Maran, undisputed king of Sydney’s South Asian dating scene and fluent in ten languages of seduction, meets his match in a 145 km/h cricket yorker that inflates his balls to the size of footballs. Over fourteen agonising days he still refuses to cancel a single date with twelve gorgeous women—each expecting fireworks—while waddling through the wildest, most culturally tailored excuses ever invented. When the swelling finally disappears, every single woman messages him on the same Sunday demanding immediate delivery. The multilingual playboy has nothing left to say.

  8. 69 Fines and a Baby
    69 Fines and a Baby
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    When Sydney crime boss Gobi Sultan kidnaps five-year-old Chunmun Singh for a million-dollar ransom, he never imagines the real threat: a toddler who can’t stop unbuckling his seatbelt under traffic cameras and accidentally torching an apartment with a gas oven. Within forty-eight hours, the city’s merciless smart-AI algorithms bankrupt Gobi’s entire empire. Six months later, a rival syndicate learns the same lethal lesson—never let a curious kindergartener loose on your heist. A razor-sharp satire where innocence beats organized crime every time.

  9. When the Shiraz Hit the Fan

    The apocalypse has finally hit Melbourne, but for 16 eccentric preppers hoarding exactly one type of essential each, the real threat is the neighbors. When the lights go out, alliances crumble into a hilarious, Mad Max-style suburban showdown of booby-trapped toilet paper and weaponized wine. Dive into this laugh-out-loud satire that proves when the end of the world arrives, true survival takes a lot more than just a solitary stash!

  10. The Day It Rained Money
    The Day It Rained Money
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    In the spice-scented chaos of Old Delhi, bribery is the price of survival—until one merchant refuses to pay. His defiance sparks a breathtaking chain reaction, raining money onto the streets and proving that integrity can still bloom in the city’s ancient dust.

  11. The Unbroken Vows
    The Unbroken Vows
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    As the spiritual fire of the mortal Rishis threatens to melt the foundations of the heavens, Indra, King of the Gods, turns to his ultimate weapon of distraction. Menaka, the most enchanting Apsara of the celestial court, is dispatched on a divine mission: to break the unwavering focus of the sages through the irresistible power of beauty and grace.

  12. A Bucket Full of Bribe
    A Bucket Full of Bribe
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    Gemini said Teaser When Hindu deities descend to Bangalore to buy a flat, they discover their celestial powers are utterly useless against the city's true apex predators: bribe-hungry bureaucrats. It takes a frustrated IT professional armed with a bucket of dirty water to spark a viral revolution, proving to the Gods that everyday mortal courage is the ultimate superpower.

  13. Saree, Not Saree
    Saree, Not Saree
    Chinmoy Mukherjee

    For thousand years Ravana has kidnapped Komal Gupta across lifetimes—from Egyptian pharaoh to Martian tyrant—only to lose her every time to her true love. In his final, disastrous incarnation he’s a cash-strapped airline owner who accidentally abducts Lakshya Malhotra… mid-drag transition video. A razor-sharp satirical novella where the Ramayana ends not with war, but with viral content, a fashion empire, and the most pragmatic karmic divorce in history.

  14. Kaikeyi's Exiles: A Twisted Ramayana

    What if the exile that shook the heavens wasn't Rama’s to bear? In this daring reimagining, King Dasharatha takes to the forest with a defiant Kaikeyi, sparking a cosmic war that forces a queen of shadows to become a savior of worlds.

  15. Soovijast proovijaks ja edasi?
    Soovijast proovijaks ja edasi?
    From Wisher to Doer and Beyond?
    SMHerobrine

    🇪🇪 See luulekogu on aus ja mitmekesine rännak läbi nooruse, mõtete, tunnete ja eneseotsingu. Soovijast proovijaks ja edasi? ühendab mängulisuse ja sügavuse, kutsudes lugejat kaasa teele, kus proovimisest saab mõistmine ja luulest peegel iseendale. 🇬🇧 This poetry collection is an honest and vivid journey through youth, thought, emotion, and self-discovery. From Wisher to Doer and Beyond? combines playfulness with depth, inviting readers into a world where trying becomes understanding and poetry becomes a mirror of the self.