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At end of the 201011 season, chievo verona decided against signing fernandes on a permanent basis. The life and times of an hbomb 2006 which won the best book on cinema award at the 54th national film awards, surviving women 2000 and asylum and other poems 2003. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. One for months, the front pages had warned of imminent doom. New post fundraising results, improved mobile version, your uploads page and minisurvey in our blog. He writes about urban policy, music, migration and anything else. Naresh fernandes is the editor of and the author, most recently, of city adrift. Which is why, city adrift by journalist naresh fernandes is a suitable gift to mumbai. He writes about urban policy, music, migration and anything else that catches his. According to naresh fernandes, in his book city adrift, the confrontation involved a group of parsis who had watched the royal procession and a crowd of gandhis followers who were returning from a bonfire in bombays mill district.