contemporary romance
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The Unseen Hour
Rohan A. Desai Part One – The Arrival The city was still damp from the evening rain when Maya stepped out of the cab. The streets glistened with neon reflections, every puddle a trembling mirror that caught fragments of shop lights, passing headlights, and the restless pulse of Friday night. She adjusted the strap of…
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तेरी मेरी अधूरी बातें
आरव मेहता भाग 1 : मुलाक़ात की ख़ामोशी दिल्ली की भीगी दोपहर थी। बरसात का मौसम हमेशा ही लोगों को अपने भीतर छिपे हुए जज़्बातों से मिलाता है। मेट्रो स्टेशन के बाहर लोग अपने-अपने रास्ते भाग रहे थे, किसी के हाथ में छाता था, किसी के कंधे पर बैग। उसी भीड़ में खड़ी थी आर्या,…
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The Window Between Us
Elina Ray Part One – The First Glance Anaya had never thought much about the way the late afternoon light struck the tall glass windows of her office building. She had been working here for nearly seven years, and the reflections had become part of the background noise of her days—the sun falling at angles,…
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Monsoon Conversations
Amaya Rao Part 1: Under the Metro Roof The rain arrived like a rumor that suddenly remembered it was true. One minute Delhi was gray and heavy with threat; the next, it cracked open and poured everything it had onto Rajiv Chowk. The metro announcement dissolved into static. Commuters shrank under bags and newspapers and…
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The Second Cup
Aanya Rhodes Part 1: First Rain It started with the sound of rain. Not the polite kind that kissed rooftops and trickled down windowpanes, but the insistent, wild kind that arrived with thunder in its bones and an unspoken promise of upheaval. The kind of rain that didn’t ask before entering your life — it…
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The Equation of Us
Maanvi Shah The conference room was too cold for summer, like most VC firms that mistook temperature control for control in general. Rhea Mehta crossed her legs, stilettos clicking lightly as she adjusted her seat, eyes steady on the projected slide deck. “You’re up,” she said, voice clipped, betraying no emotion. Across the glossy table…
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Across the Courtline
Rhea Dutt Part 1: The First Serve The first time Aarav saw Mira, she was smashing a shuttlecock across the net with such precision that it left her opponent frozen. It wasn’t love at first sight—not yet. It was something sharper. Intrigue. Aarav, the newly recruited assistant coach at St. Augustine Sports Academy, had arrived…
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Rent a Boyfriend
Aisha Roy Plus-One Problems Tara Sen hated weddings. Not because she was bitter about love, not even because she couldn’t tolerate rasgullas anymore—she just couldn’t stand the interrogation squad that arrived with the haldi. Her mother’s sisters. Her father’s cousins. The “So-when-are-you-next-beta?” brigade. This time, it was her cousin Sia’s wedding in Jaipur. Three days.…
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3rd Floor Left: A Love Story
Aisha Verma Rohan Mehta did not believe in fate. He believed in laundry schedules, strong coffee, and Bluetooth headphones with decent battery life. Apartment 3R—third floor, right—had been his solo kingdom for the past eleven months, ever since he moved into the ageing but oddly charming Amar Residency in Indiranagar. It wasn’t love at first…
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Monsoon Strokes
Ayesha Fernandes Part 1: The First Drop The rain came slow, like a lover hesitating at the doorstep. It began with a whisper against the rusted railing of the old apartment on Chapel Road, then picked up its rhythm like tabla fingers on taut skin. Amara stood by the half-open window, brush frozen mid-air, eyes…
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Twenty-One Winters Later
Payel Sen The Return to the Hills The chill in the Darjeeling air always brought back memories for Atanu. As the toy train screeched into Ghum station, the soft drizzle on the windowpane blurred the world outside. He was forty-two now, with streaks of grey in his once-black hair and lines around his eyes that…
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নিষিদ্ধ নীলাকাশ
অভিজিৎ হাজৰিকা পর্ব ১ ধৰাপাত শিখা শেষ কৰোতেই নীলমণি চকু ওপৰলৈ তুলি খিৰিকিৰ বাহিৰে চাই থাকিল। কলেজৰ পৰা আহি চিৰিকিয়া ধুৱাঁ উঠে চাহৰ কাপ এটা লৈ তেওঁ ওলাইছিলে বাৰাণ্ডালৈ। সদায়ৰ দৰে আজি পূব দিশৰ হালধীয়া পোহৰে তেওঁৰ কপালত পৰিছিল, যেন কোনো এজন সৰু ল’ৰাই ৰং তুলিকাৰে তেওঁৰ মুখত আলফুলে নেৰাই দিছে। আজিও চৌদিশে চুপচাপ, কেৱল…