Comedy
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Startup Shaadi Pvt. Ltd.
Anupama Trivedi Chapter 1 It begins on a humid evening in Bengaluru. Manav, our protagonist, sits in the dark corner of a PG in Koramangala. He’s thirty, jobless, and surviving on day-old biryani. Once hailed as a promising coder from an IIT, he now codes half-heartedly on borrowed laptops. His roommate recently left to join…
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The Great Office Coffee Heist
Rishi Kulkarni Monday Mourning The Monday morning at Chai & Chat Media Pvt. Ltd., a mid-sized marketing agency in the heart of Koramangala, Bengaluru, began like any other—late. The office, located on the third floor of a building with exactly one working lift (which frequently stopped at every floor uninvited), had a culture of “flexible…
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The Great Indian Job Hunt
Priya Paul Chapter 1: Curse of the Jobless Genius If you had asked Nakul Joshi five years ago where he saw himself by the age of twenty-nine, he would’ve said something obnoxiously overconfident, like: “Running my own unicorn startup while sipping espresso in a glass tower overlooking Mumbai.” What he hadn’t seen coming was the…
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The Accidental Wedding Planner
Rohan Khurana 1 Aditya Roy hated alarms. Especially when they rang at 7 a.m. on a Sunday — which, to him, was a crime against humanity. But this particular Sunday, the alarm wasn’t just from his phone. It was accompanied by the rickety whine of the ceiling fan in his overpriced Bengaluru apartment and the…