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A book by Harshit Gupta

Emotional
Bastard.

The Chaos of Being a huMan

Twenty chapters about responsibility, loneliness, affection, failure and finding a voice. Written in English with Hinglish passages, these stories and reflections follow the feelings that often hide behind “I’m fine.”

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Creative nonfiction · Stories, reflections & verse

A few lines.
A familiar feeling.

For anyone who has kept showing up while carrying more than they could explain. These passages come from the opening chapter, “The Forgotten Teacup”.

The office was never truly silent. Even when people left, even when chairs stood empty, the air carried a faint echo—of hurried footsteps, of frustrated sighs, of phone calls that stretched too long.

But the real stories weren’t in the noise.
They were in the things left behind.
The Forgotten Teacup · p. 27
“Chai jaisi ho gayi hai zindagi,
Na cheeni zyada, na swaad kam.”
Bas ek aadat jo har din repeat hoti hai,
Bina soche, bina taste liye, sirf pee jaate hain.
The Forgotten Teacup · p. 31
Some things don’t stay on the desk.
Some things quietly follow you home.
The Forgotten Teacup · p. 31
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The writer behind the work

A different kind
of attention.

I spend my working days thinking about what makes people pay attention. Writing asks something else of me: to pay attention myself. To the things I feel, the things I notice, and the things I’m still trying to understand.

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