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    The Banyan Network

    October 4, 2025 - By 

    Rudra Sen Chapter 1 – The Quantum Forests The forest had never been silent, not even in the hours when the city of Varanasi held its breath between night and dawn. The ghats along the Ganges shimmered faintly with the last oil lamps of ritual, their flames fragile against the heavy mist, while the alleys beyond were empty of footsteps, shutters drawn tight. But inside the vast enclosure of the Varanasi Banyan Complex, there was no silence. The earth hummed. The air pulsed. It was a sound older than the city, yet entirely artificial, a vibration that carried through the…

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    Mumbai Skydwellers

    September 18, 2025 - By 

    Chayanika Gupta I The year is 2150, and Mumbai is no longer the bustling coastal metropolis that once defined India’s economic ambition. Rising seas have claimed its foundations, swallowing roads, train lines, and neighborhoods in a relentless tide that never recedes. Above the endless gray waters, colossal towers known as Sky-Havens pierce the storm-heavy clouds, their glass spires shimmering like distant stars. These vertical cities are reserved for the rich and powerful—politicians, tech magnates, and corporate dynasties who have sealed themselves away from the chaos below. Beneath their hovering luxury lies the drowned city, a maze of rusting ferries, floating…

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    The Pulse Between Stars

    September 18, 2025 - By 

    Aarya Menon Part 1: The Resonance The ship woke before the people did. That was how Mira always felt it—an undercurrent tremor rippling through the decks, like the Ark was stretching after a night’s dream. Then the alarms chimed soft and steady, a metronome for the morning ritual. Mira sat up on her cot in the medic quarters, pressing two fingers to the side of her neck. Her pulse stuttered, uneven, refusing the calm rhythm that the ship demanded. She swallowed hard, wiped her face, and stood. Outside the narrow corridor, hundreds were already moving in silence toward the Grand…

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    City of a Thousand Suns

    September 17, 2025 - By 

    Rohan Ahuja Chapter 1 – The Desert of Light The year was 2150, and the Thar Desert no longer resembled the barren expanse it had once been. Instead of endless dunes stretching into emptiness, the horizon was now filled with colossal spires of glass and steel that glowed with the fire of captured sunlight. These towers, some rising taller than the skyscrapers of Mumbai and Dubai combined, shimmered with a brilliance that made the desert itself look aflame. At dawn, when the sun broke across the horizon, the towers lit up in sequence, each one reflecting and amplifying light until…

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    The Memory Archive

    September 16, 2025 - By 

    Neel Madhav Rao Chapter 1 – The Echo of Forgotten Names The city of New Delhi no longer breathed in silence. It hummed and pulsed like a living circuit board, streets strung with cables of light, towers crowned with translucent domes where advertisements and memory-feeds shimmered day and night. From Connaught Place to Dwarka, holographic billboards rippled against the heat-hazed sky, whispering promises to the millions who walked the streets below: Upload today. Secure tomorrow. Become more than flesh. Dr. Elara Vaughn had stopped listening to those voices long ago. She had seen too many patients who came clutching their…

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    The Last Memory Vault

    September 9, 2025 - By 

    Arjun Devran Episode 1: The Price of Happiness They called it a gala because the word auction had acquired a bitter aftertaste. The broadcast opened on velvet—digital, of course—spilling across a stage whose edge glowed with the phosphor-blue logo of the Vault. A presenter in a silver suit moved like a dart of light from one podium to the next. Behind him: columns of data cascading in ribbons, small squares of people’s faces suspended in pastel halos. Above all of it, the city’s night leaned against glass, and rain threaded itself down the sides of towers as if it were…

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    The Forgotten Colony

    September 7, 2025 - By 

    Rinchen Thapa Chapter 1 The dawn broke slowly over the mist-cloaked valleys of Arunachal Pradesh, the jungle heavy with dew and the distant murmur of unseen rivers weaving through the dense canopy. Dr. Meera Sen adjusted the strap of her field bag as she followed the narrow trail cut by locals, her mind more on the expedition notes than the shifting ground beneath her boots. The air was thick with the perfume of wet earth and decaying leaves, each breath tinged with the wildness of a land still untamed by roads or electricity. Behind her, Colonel Arjun Rawat kept a…

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    The Time Bazaar of Varanasi

    September 6, 2025 - By 

    Nabin Tiwari The evening in Varanasi carried its usual symphony of life and death—the rhythmic chants of priests, the crackle of lamps along the ghats, and the ceaseless murmur of the Ganges beneath a dusky sky. Smoke from incense coils drifted lazily over the stone steps, curling around the heads of pilgrims and the cloaked figures of wandering ascetics. Arjun, whose heart carried the weight of a mother’s fading life, moved silently among the crowd, barely noticing the colors or sounds that so many others revered. His focus was on her pale face at home, the shallow breaths, and the…

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    The Lattice Horizon

    September 5, 2025 - By 

    Arjun Malhotra The night the universe confessed its scaffolding, drizzle worried the windows of Aanya’s lab and every monitor hummed like a beehive of distant stars. She had asked the building to forget the hour; the automated lights obeyed, settling into an amber dusk. On the wall, the microwave background unfurled as a field of noise, speckled and stubborn, a fossil of the first light—except she could not ignore the cadence hiding in it anymore. Noise refused rhythm; this wasn’t noise. It was the third week of revisiting old sky maps compiled by instruments long retired. Aanya’s code, stitched from…

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    The Ganga Protocol

    September 2, 2025 - By 

    Avinab Tripathi 1 The first light of dawn draped the ghats of Varanasi in hues of saffron and pale gold, casting long shadows across the stone steps as the Ganga stirred with life. Asha, a slender girl of thirteen, sat barefoot on the cold stone, her knees drawn close to her chest, watching the river awaken with the city. Pilgrims descended the steps, their chants mingling with the rhythm of conch shells, bells, and the flutter of pigeons rising in great swirls of wings. The air was thick with incense, the sharp tang of camphor smoke, and the brine of…