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The Middle Class Mosaic: Volume 2: Stream Wars & Pocket Money
Paperback
Series: Growing Up Indian: A Decade, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 27 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The transition from Class 10 to Class 11 isn't just a step up-it's a cliff edge.
In Volume 2 of The Middle Class Mosaic, Aarav Malhotra leaves the protected incubator of school and enters the chaotic wilderness of Junior College. Welcome to the Science Stream-where the books are heavy, the teachers are celebrities, and the pressure is atmospheric.
From the humiliation of the beige uniform to the cutthroat world of IIT-JEE coaching, Aarav navigates a life defined by two variables: Stream Wars (the battle between passion and physics) and Pocket Money (the constant struggle to afford a cappuccino in a world of rich friends).
As he juggles the terror of Rotational Mechanics, the awkwardness of teenage crushes, and a secret dream of buying a Fender guitar, Aarav learns that the hardest derivations aren't in the textbook-they are in life itself.
A hilarious, heartwarming, and painfully relatable diary of every Indian teenager who ever calculated projectile motion while dreaming of a different trajectory.
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