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This engineer-turned-media pro aims at engineering creativity. A dreamer, she's out in this world to win hearts and sell smiles for free! If there's a man draped in funny-looking purple robe, she'll write about it. If you have one ear on either side of your face, she'll write about that too. She loves expressing so much that she often reads out to empty rooms and yells, "I know you're listening!" Her love for expressions, Bollywood and romance is truly undying, unconditional and unapologetic!

Stories by Harshita Dagha
Ugly Sweater
Fiction

You need an ugly sweater in your closet

Of Green Tea
Fiction

The smell of brewing green tea leaves

Like oil and water
Fiction

We were friends. Like oil and water

It's been a long way
Fiction

It’s been a long way

Promises don't grow with you
Fiction

Promises don’t grow with you

Lights, camera, friendship, drama
Fiction

Lights, camera, friendships, drama

Found Family
Fiction

Found Family

The Hornbill's Nest
Fiction

The Hornbill’s Nest

House of Memories
Fiction

House of Memories

As they grow
Fiction

As they grow

Separation is never a surprise
Fiction

Separation is never a Surprise

Nothing else could matter
Fiction

Nothing else could matter

A teacup and a plate of cookies
Fiction

A teacup and a plate of cookies

For Happiness
Fiction

For Happiness

Haven't met you yet
Fiction

Haven’t met you yet…

The concept of soulmates is flawed
Fiction

The concept of soulmates is, well, flawed

A dancer dies twice
Fiction

The first death

When a person starts life again after a traumatic incident
Fiction

When a person starts life again after a traumatic incident

A few days...to live
Fiction

A few days…to live

The barriers fell apart when I fell in love
Fiction

The barriers fell apart when I fell in love

What lies beneath
Fiction

What lies beneath the secret my parents kept from me

The uncomfortable picture of being a child prodigy
Fiction

The uncomfortable picture of being a child prodigy

A life sheltered can't help one grow
Fiction

A life sheltered can’t help one grow

Save me from my reflection
Fiction

Save me from my Reflection

Every sigh you make
Fiction

Every sigh you make

The surprises I gave to the career at fifty
Fiction

The surprises I gave to the career at fifty

An album on my life
Fiction

An album on my life

A lost friend and our friendship
Fiction

A lost friend and our friendship

Who is your influencer
Fiction

Who is your Influencer?

The writing desk is also a raven
Fiction

The writing desk is also a raven

You don't have to walk a mile to find yourself
Fiction

You don’t have to walk a mile to find yourself

I lost a lot in the process of finding myself
Fiction

I lost a lot in the process of finding myself

All eyes on me
Fiction

All eyes on me. I have a personality disorder

The burnout is drying us
Productivity

The burnout is drying us

I was a bride married to amazement
Fiction

I was a bride married to amazement

Accidentally yours
Fiction

Accidentally yours. When I was never a pet person

Sunflowers in my vase
Fiction

Sunflowers in my vase

Why you shouldn't be an overachiever
Fiction

I was an overachieving geek. It ruined me

Between love and the love story
Fiction

Between love and the “love story”

The greatest loss among them all
Fiction

The greatest loss among them all

I left my passion
Fiction

I left my passion…

Why I wouldn't see a therapist
Fiction

Why I wouldn’t see a therapist

After all this, the love was left to destiny
Fiction

After all this, the love was left to destiny

Where the love will go
Fiction

Where the love will go

And their love will never settle down
Fiction

And their love will never settle down

What love was doing to me
Fiction

What love was doing to me

Hustling is Overrated
Fiction

Hustling is Overrated

Back to School
Fiction

A little late for my age. I was back to...

The miracle moment
Fiction

Miracle Moment: A life-changing moment that changed what seemed like...

The joy of missing out
Fiction

It was the joy of missing out

The confessions of a teetotaler
Fiction

The confessions of a teetotaler

Bread, Butter and Instagram
Fiction

Bread, Butter and Instagram

Finding happiness is no easy task
Fiction

I went on to find happiness

A case for extreme fandom
Think

A Case for Extreme Fandom

The gaming that changed me dramatically
Living

The gaming that changed me dramatically

What a typical anxiety attack does to me
Living

What a typical anxiety attack does to me

The fine line between emotions and stalking
Fiction

The fine line between unhealthy stalking and genuine emotion

What the world wants from women
Living

What the world wants from women

The effectivity of motivational books and movies
Living

The effectivity of motivational books and movies

I wander. I'm not lost
Fiction

I was wandering. I wasn’t lost. While I was working

Netflix and woke
Fiction

Netflix and woke

New Age Nomads
Fiction

And I ended up becoming a digital nomad

What love did to me
Fiction

What love did to me

Unleashing the leader in you
Leadership

I was in an absolute career bliss, but all that...

Forbidden Attractions
Living

A relationship you haven’t told anyone about

Which gender does one belong to
Living

Gender Identity Crisis: Which gender does one relate to?

Ignoring the present for the distant future
Fiction

He ignored the present for a distant future. His face...

The real lives behind the social media curtain
Fiction

The real lives behind the social media curtain

Love, in the times of Tinder
Fiction

Love, in the times of Tinder

I was running too fast, to nowhere
Fiction

I was running too fast, to nowhere, until…

It's a big world. You'll fit
Living

It’s a big world, they say. Will I fit, I...

I had become a people pleaser
Fiction

I had become a people pleaser

One day you're going to die
Fiction

The best motivation: One day you are going to die

One day at a time
Living

Breaking it down, one day at a time

When you don't know what you want from life
Leadership

When you don’t know what you want from life

Love alone is never enough
Fiction

Love alone is never enough

How guarded people love differently
Fiction

How guarded people love differently

He loves his urban slave
Fiction

He loves his urban slave

My vicious soulmate
Fiction

I did find my soulmate. But the story hadn’t just...

He had social anxiety until...
Fiction

He had social anxiety until…

Your partner is a narcissist
Life

She was a narcissist. And it doesn’t end here

Let's not cure depression
Life

What if you don’t cure depression?

She broke up with me
Fiction

And then one day it happened, she broke up with...

I was dead
Life

I was dead. I wrote a letter to my daughter...

Slammed with the Revenge Body
Life

Slammed them with the Revenge Body

The grey area of life
Fiction

The grey area of life during late twenties

And it turned out I am a demisexual
Life

And it turned out I’m a DEMISEXUAL

Why I feel attached
Fiction

Why do I feel attached? It doesn’t even belong to...

In a relationship with my bed
Fiction

In a relationship with my bed

I figured that my man had committed adultery
Life

And I absorbed, I figured that my man had committed...

Let's not cure depression
Life

Let’s not cure depression

He cheated. That's what healed me
Life

He cheated. And that’s exactly what healed me!

As I lost my lustre, he lost his memory
Life

As I lost my lustre, he lost his memory

Would you still accept me as your mom
Fiction

Would you still accept me as your mom?

The Second Wife
Life

The Second Wife

A night for the nights to come
Fiction

A night for the nights to come

Being a 30-something bachelor
Life

Being a 30-something bachelor

Why your partner should not be your BFF
Life

Why your partner should NOT be your best friend

With love, from the BITCH
Life

With love, from the BITCH

Love her for what she is
Life

Love her the way she is, love her for what...

I don't need critics anymore
Life

I don’t need critics anymore

My beautiful girl broke up with me
Fiction

When my beautiful girl broke up with me

I miss you but I don't want you anymore
Life

I miss you. But I don’t want you anymore!

As my love ended, his had just begun
Life

As my love ended, his had just begun

I was in love. She was elder to me!
Life

I was in love. She was elder to me!

In lust, with my man
Life

In love but lust, with my only man

Are you a demisexual
Life

And what did I learn? I am a DEMISEXUAL

The difference between the men I have dated and you
Life

The difference between men I have dated and you

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