• Comedy - English - Romance

    When Diya Met Ranbir

    Prabir Arora The first chapter of the story plunges the reader straight into the heart of a lavish South Mumbai wedding, a world that Diya, an introverted and somewhat socially awkward book editor, finds both dazzling and suffocating. From the moment she steps into the sprawling banquet hall, she is overwhelmed by the kaleidoscope of colors, sparkling sequins, and the constant hum of chatter and laughter. Every corner is crowded with impeccably dressed guests, eager to showcase their latest outfits and perfect social media selfies. Diya feels out of place, a silent observer in this whirlwind of glamour, her discomfort…

  • Comedy - English

    The Fake Yoga Guru

    Rohit Sharma Part 1: Lights, Camera… No Action Rajiv Malhotra sat on the creaky plastic chair in the audition hall, clutching his dog-eared script like it was the last lifeline of his career. Around him, twenty other “aspiring actors” waited, all with the same tired eyes, fake smiles, and desperate hopes. The casting assistant shouted names like a schoolteacher calling attendance. Every time the door opened, Rajiv prayed it would be him who got picked, and every time it wasn’t, he sank deeper into his chair. When his turn finally came, he stood before three people who didn’t even look…

  • Comedy - English

    Professor Google

    Arjun Menon Part 1 – The Prayer at Midnight Rahul sat hunched over his desk in the dim hostel room, surrounded by a fortress of half-empty coffee mugs, Maggi packets, and photocopied notes so smudged they looked like ancient manuscripts. The fan spun lazily above his head, squeaking every few rotations like it too was tired of his engineering syllabus. His phone buzzed with memes from his batchmates: “Bro, syllabus is the real horror movie.” He groaned, ran a hand through his unwashed hair, and stared at the thick book of electronics. The words danced in front of his eyes,…

  • Comedy - English

    The Last Slice

    Rohan Banerjee Part 1: Viral Villain Raj Mehta believed in three things: breakfast before tweets, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil on everything, and the sanctity of the last slice. The first two had kept him mostly sane. The third was about to ruin his life. It happened at a café in Lajpat Nagar that insisted on calling the waiter a “pizza sommelier.” Raj was reviewing their new menu for his channel, Raj On A Plate, which, if we’re honest, was a modest plate. Not fine china. More like a laminated thali. The café had one wood-fired Margherita left…

  • Comedy - English

    The Accidental Mayor

    Rohan Banerjee On the morning the town decided Arjun Mishra was qualified to run a municipality, he overslept, which, in his defense, was how he responded to most major events including India matches, family weddings, and gas cylinder deliveries, and when his phone alarm blared “RISE, MAYOR,” not because he was prophetic but because his roommate Pintu had changed the label after watching a motivational reel, Arjun groaned, flung a pillow at the ceiling fan like the fan could negotiate with Monday, stumbled into a bath that was more an apology to water than hygiene, zipped into his faded red…

  • Comedy - English

    Boss, Interrupted

    Sudesh Rao   Harsh Gupta had always imagined his life would pass quietly between spreadsheets, half-drunk cups of tea, and the occasional team lunch where no one remembered his name, and that was perfectly fine with him because invisibility was his survival strategy in the large and chaotic Gurgaon office of Midas Synergy Solutions, a company that did everything and nothing at once, surviving on buzzwords and investor slides. He was a man who entered meetings late enough to avoid introductions and left early enough to avoid being assigned tasks, a man who owned three identical shirts in pale blue…

  • Comedy - English

    The Airport Boyfriend

    Kunal Deshmukh   Part 1 — Placards and Proposals Arjun Mehta had never imagined that life as a broke engineering student would lead him to standing in the arrivals terminal of the city airport, clutching a glossy white placard with names written in bold black marker. He wasn’t even supposed to be here. His real job was to fix malfunctioning printers in his hostel and build circuits for his classmates in exchange for Maggi packets, but when his college senior told him about this “easy money gig” at the airport—just hold a sign, smile politely, and hand over the passenger…

  • Comedy - English - Young Adult

    Gully Premier League

    Mahesh Shukla The first chapter, The Chawl Conspiracy, plunges readers into the vibrant chaos of a typical Mumbai chawl, where the scent of street food mingles with the hum of everyday life. Ro, a lanky teenager with a sharp tongue and an eye for mischief, slumps against the railing of the narrow balcony, lamenting the exorbitant IPL ticket prices. “Who even has the money for these stadiums?” he grumbles, tossing a cricket ball absentmindedly into the air. Around him, the chawl pulses with life—neighbors shouting from adjacent windows, a distant honking of rickshaws, and the occasional clang of utensils from…

  • Comedy - English

    The Misadventures of Benson Lane

    Rohan Banerjee It was a bright Sunday morning in Kolkata, which meant two things: the neighborhood cricket match would block all traffic, and Auntie Shukla would be out in full force, armed with gossip and a rolling pin. Benson Lane wasn’t famous for anything—unless you counted its residents’ Olympic-level ability to interfere in each other’s lives. The star of this story was Mr. Debu Mukherjee, a retired bank officer with too much free time and a suspicious interest in everyone’s grocery shopping. That morning, Debu Babu spotted something alarming at the lane’s corner tea stall. His long-time rival, Somnath, was…

  • Comedy - English

    The Accidental Groom

    Tara Ellison Ray Jay Parker hated weddings. He hated the drama, the speeches, the couples gazing into each other’s eyes like the world was a chocolate fountain. But most of all, he hated commitment. So naturally, when his best mate Ollie invited him to a week-long bachelor party in Goa—far, far away from London’s relentless drizzle and his ex-girlfriend’s constant texting—Jay booked the flight without a second thought. He didn’t bother to read the fine print. Details bored him. That’s how he ended up sleep-deprived, slightly hungover, and entirely confused when a chauffeur holding a sign that read “Jai Prakash…