Alok Chaturvedi

Tag: life

  • My Newfound Thinking Cap

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    I am often stuck on some problem in my work as a software developer, while other times I am unable to think of a topic to write about on my blog. In such moments, I feel the need for a thinking cap. Recently, I realized that I had the thinking cap all along and not…

  • Don’t You See? I am Trying to Save You

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    It was a great winter month, but more importantly it was a month of many good news for the people living in the lost village of Kokara in the state of Odisha, India; for finally they have been discovered by concrete road, electricity and the rest of the world. Kokara was cut off from the…

  • Vicariously Unliving

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    These days I am doing a lot of rethinking, and I would credit it to Adam Grant, for his book ‘Think Again’ inspired me. A lot of this rethinking is directed towards the way I live my life. I have always loved and enjoyed a good story, either via books or via moving pictures. Now…

  • From my Nightmares, Welcome to my Dreams

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    I am not the only one who has loved and has been disappointed, in fact I have been someone who has disappointed my lover/lovers, yet this I must claim to be anything but trivial. My failure of love story is a great tragedy which almost succeeded in breaking me, yet here I am blogging casually…

  • Tale of a Toxic Beloved

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    Have you ever loved and desired someone?Odin’s beard, what am I asking, off Course you have loved and desired someone, the relevant genes were passed on to you.However have you loved and desired not one but two, and desired both at the same time?Wait don’t answer that, I know it’s a scandalous question.I have! I…

  • It is I, Life!

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        I saw a dream; lived it, worked on it, cared for it, gave it my all and yet Life happened. Just a week before my dream would turn into a reality, Life turned it into an actual nightmare with endless trauma and regrets.     It was no brainer that I was devastated beyond repair,…