Comedy
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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…
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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…
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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…
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दिलचस्प दफ़्तर
विशाल कुमार बड़ा कागज संकट ऑफिस के माहौल में एक हलचल थी। Hopeful Hearts की छोटी सी टीम किसी न किसी वजह से हमेशा उधड़ी रहती थी। आज ऑफिस का एक नया दिन था, और जैसे ही अर्विंद, ऑफिस के मैनेजर, ने दरवाजा खोला, उसे एक चिठ्ठी मिली जो सीधे विनोद सर के केबिन से…
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Flatmates and Other Natural Disasters
Aarav Malik The Flatmate Interview from Hell Neil Patel had never considered himself particularly unlucky. He had a stable job, a reliable (if slightly moldy) flat in West London, and a wardrobe that was ninety percent navy blue. But when his longtime flatmate Raj moved out—citing “creative differences” after one too many passive-aggressive notes about…
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The Great Curry Catastrophe
Deepak Sharma Chapter 1: If you had asked anyone in Pimplepur a month ago who Rajeev Banerjee was, they might’ve said, “Wasn’t he the boy who tried to bake a pizza on the car bonnet in Class 8?” Or, “Is he the one who added glitter to gulab jamuns thinking it was edible silver?” Yes.…
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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 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…