• Crime - English - Fiction

    The Professor’s Lost File

    July 8, 2025 - By 

    Ayan Mukherjee Part 1: Echoes from the Dark Web Four years had passed since Berlin’s death. Four years since the gold vanished from the Bank of Spain. The world had moved on, but somewhere deep in the chaos of shifting governments, rising crypto-empires, and collapsing institutions, the legend of El Profesor endured. In the heart of Bogotá, under the guise of a salsa bar waitress, Tokyo existed—an echo of her former self. Her real name erased, her guns traded for silence. She no longer looked at the world with fire in her eyes. She drank quietly, moved with precision, and…

  • English - Suspense

    The Red Veil of Kaiserbagh

    July 7, 2025 - By 

    Isha Mirza 1 Rhea Sen stepped off the dusty evening train into the heart of Lucknow, her senses immediately overwhelmed by the city’s curious blend of melancholy grandeur and stubborn life. Rickshaws rattled past the faded gates of old nawabi havelis, and the air carried the scent of marigolds, incense, and the distant, lingering sweetness of attar. As an art historian specializing in forgotten women of the Awadh court, she had dreamed of this moment for years: to walk the same stone paths once graced by courtesans whose dances whispered through history only in half-remembered couplets and brittle letters. Rhea…

  • English - Non- Fiction - Suspense

    The Enigma of Dholavira

    July 7, 2025 - By 

    Dhruv Acharya Chapter 1: The Forgotten City The sun beat down relentlessly on the parched landscape of Gujarat’s Kutch region as Ravi Sood stepped out of the jeep, his eyes fixed on the distant stone ruins of Dholavira rising like an ancient mirage from the cracked earth. Ravi had dreamed of this moment for years, ever since he’d first studied the maps and fragmented writings about this lost Harappan city, which had flourished some four thousand years ago before vanishing into silence. Around him, the air shimmered with heat, and the dry wind carried the scent of dust and salt…

  • English - Suspense

    The Secret of Mandalgram

    July 7, 2025 - By 

    Mira Basu Part 1: The Map That Was Lost The dust in the old study hung thick in the air, undisturbed for what seemed like centuries. Sudhir had spent the better part of the morning sorting through his late grandfather’s belongings, moving through stacks of old books and forgotten trinkets. But there was one place he had avoided—the desk. The one his grandfather had always used for his work. It was the heart of his scholarly empire, a place where thousands of manuscripts and letters had piled up over the years, forming a fortress of history and mystery. But today,…

  • English - Romance

    Somewhere Between Raindrops

    July 6, 2025 - By 

    Aanya Dasgupta Part 1: The First Drizzle It wasn’t raining yet, not exactly. The sky was still in negotiation, heavy with clouds that hadn’t quite made up their mind. Nia sat by the window of a narrow Hauz Khas café, her fingers curled around a mug of lukewarm coffee, staring absently at her laptop screen. The jazz playing overhead was faint, the kind that seemed to belong in another decade, but it fit the dim light and cracked wooden tables. Her document was open but untouched. She was supposed to be working on a cover design for a new historical…

  • Crime - English - Horror

    The Perfumer of Hazratganj

    July 6, 2025 - By 

    Shamsuddin Ansari Chapter 1: The First Scent It was the smell that reached her before the crime scene did—sharp, floral, unsettlingly sweet. Inspector Ayesha Rizvi paused at the mouth of the narrow alley in Hazratganj, where the rainwater had begun to pool like slow-moving ink. The yellow tape fluttered in the humid breeze, but it was the fragrance in the air—unfamiliar, exotic—that made her stomach tighten. The dead girl lay beneath a crimson shawl, one hand stretched toward a rusted shutter, as if she had tried to knock before she died. On her chest, placed deliberately, was a glass vial…

  • Crime - English

    The Mist over Mussoorie

    July 6, 2025 - By 

    Kiran Malhotra Chapter 1: Return to the Hills Aryan Mehta stepped off the narrow mountain road and onto the familiar moss-stained path that led to St. Luke’s Academy, the colonial-era boarding school where he had spent four complicated, unforgettable years of his youth. The air in Mussoorie carried its perennial chill, tinged with the scent of damp pine needles and the metallic bite of rain-soaked stone, wrapping the hillside in a soft, relentless mist that seemed to muffle every footstep, every birdcall, every human breath. Even now, so many years later, the sight of the grand stone archway—its crest still…

  • English - Fiction - Suspense

    The Republic of Shadows

    July 5, 2025 - By 

    Meher Aftab Part 1: The Flag That Doesn’t Wave The sun hung over the capital city of Ruvana like a bloated wound, casting a hazy orange over the skyline of glass ministries and concrete ghosts. Somewhere between the Parliament dome and the military cantonment, truth had gone missing. And Naveen Rahatkar, senior political correspondent for The Varshana Ledger, was beginning to smell its corpse. He sat in the pressroom of the Central Secretariat, watching the white-and-saffron flag of the Republic of Varshana flutter on the giant LED screen. Outside, the real flag was limp, unmoving despite the breeze. Symbolic, he…

  • English - Travel

    The Hidden Villages of Sikkim

    July 5, 2025 - By 

    Vikram Patil 1 David stepped off the bus into the crisp, mountain air of Pelling, a small town nestled in the Sikkim Himalayas. The journey from Delhi had been long, but as the sun set behind the towering Kanchenjunga range, the sight before him made the weariness fade away. The town, draped in mist, seemed almost ethereal, its narrow streets lined with small shops selling colorful fabrics and local handicrafts. The houses here were built from stone and wood, their sloped roofs covered in vibrant moss. It was a world far removed from the chaos of his life back in…

  • English - Fiction - Romance

    Offline is the New Love

    July 5, 2025 - By 

    Tania Mattu Part 1: The DM That Didn’t Send Aarav Kapoor stared at the blinking cursor on his screen, his thumb hovering above the send button. The message read: “Hey, you seemed really cool at the open mic. Want to grab coffee sometime?” But he didn’t press send. Instead, he backspaced all the way to blank and tossed his phone onto the bed. He exhaled loudly. “What am I doing?” He had met Zoya exactly three nights ago at a chaotic open mic night in Bandra. She wasn’t performing; she was in the corner, sketching people with a black ink…