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Vish, the creator and Shiv, the destroyer, are simply two faces of the very same coin.

Ashwin Sanghi

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Ashwin Sanghi
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 25
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Novelist
Bombay
Coins
Creator
Simply
Faces
Two
Destroyer
Destroyers
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