• Crime - English - Suspense

    Ganges Murders

    August 21, 2025 - By 

    Sudarshan Tripathi 1 The first light of dawn spread over Varanasi, turning the Ganges into a molten ribbon of gold and crimson. Dashashwamedh Ghat was just waking—priests arranging lamps for the day’s rituals, pilgrims dipping themselves into the sacred waters, and vendors setting up their stalls along the steps. The city breathed a timeless rhythm, as if each sunrise repeated the same prayer uttered for thousands of years. But on this particular morning, the serenity of the river was broken by a shrill cry from a boatman. His small wooden boat bobbed unevenly as he leaned over the edge, staring…

  • Crime - English

    The Listener

    August 14, 2025 - By 

    Devraj Sinha Part 1 — The Echo in the Dark The gallery stood like a lone lantern in the sleeping street, its glass façade throwing pale squares of light onto wet cobblestones. Midnight rain had just stopped, leaving the air sharp with that metallic scent London kept after a downpour. Lena Brooks had been watching the place for an hour, hood drawn low, hands in her jacket pocket, the spray can warm against her palm. She’d chosen this night carefully. No security guard on the roster—she’d checked the rota online—and the CCTV camera above the side alley had been broken…

  • Crime - English

    Tandoor City

    August 12, 2025 - By 

    Manav Kashyap Chapter 1: The streets of Delhi were alive with the usual nighttime chaos—autos honking in frustration, chai stalls glowing under dim bulbs, and the muffled thrum of bike engines weaving between traffic. Rohan Batra leaned against a cracked wall outside a crowded momo stall in Lajpat Nagar, filming his closing shot for the day’s vlog. His channel, Hidden Heat, had once been his pride, a place where he exposed forgotten street food legends and secret recipes, but lately, the views had plateaued. The city’s food scene was becoming more curated, more polished, and he knew that unless he…

  • Crime - English

    Code Name: Lotus

    August 8, 2025 - By 

    Sayan Chanda Chapter 1: The Breach The rain had been falling over Delhi like a shroud, soft but relentless, turning the city into a hazy reflection of itself. Inside the Cyber Crime Monitoring Cell, the fluorescent lights hummed over rows of analysts, their eyes glazed and fixated on flickering data streams. At exactly 2:17 a.m., an alert blinked red on the mainframe—an unauthorized data access breach from a Level-4 secure server housed within the Research and Analysis Wing. The room froze. The breach wasn’t a foreign threat; it had originated from a local IP in Noida, cloaked under multiple VPN…

  • Hindi - क्राइम कहानियाँ

    विवेक सरीन

    August 8, 2025 - By 

    कालसूत्र भाग 1: वरसा का खून मुंबई की उस रात में समुद्र शांत नहीं था। लहरों का शोर सड़क की सन्नाटे को काटता जा रहा था, और बंदरगाह की ओर दौड़ती एक काली SUV की हेडलाइट्स किसी अजाने फैसले की गवाही दे रही थीं। गाड़ी की पिछली सीट पर बैठा था आदित्य वरसा — वरसा परिवार का आखिरी वारिस, और अंडरवर्ल्ड का एक उभरता चेहरा। पिता सुरेश वरसा की दो दिन पहले गोली मार कर हत्या कर दी गई थी। पुलिस ने इसे “गैंग वॉर” कह कर फाइल बंद कर दी थी, लेकिन आदित्य जानता था कि ये कोई आम…

  • Crime - English

    The Burning Ghat

    August 5, 2025 - By 

    Vijoy Menon Part 1: Ashes That Speak The smoke rose like a slow, coiled prayer — grey and indifferent, curling against the dimming sky. At Manikarnika Ghat, the fires had no time to rest. One pyre faded, another was lit. Wood cracked, bones whispered, and the Ganges swallowed the silence of the dead with the same patience it gave the living. The priests moved like phantoms in ochre robes, their hands blackened with ghee and soot. No one cried here. Grief had long since turned into muscle memory. Devkant Mishra stood by the edge of the river, his white dhoti…

  • Hindi - क्राइम कहानियाँ

    खामोश गवाह

    July 29, 2025 - By 

    अनिरुद्ध राजन मिश्रा वाराणसी की तंग गलियों में वो रात कुछ ज्यादा ही खामोश थी, जैसे कोई बड़ा तूफान पहले ही सब उजाड़ चुका हो। इंस्पेक्टर अयान शुक्ला की जीप जब कोतवाली इलाके की उस मोड़ पर पहुँची, तो चारों तरफ भीड़ जमा हो चुकी थी। लाल-नीली बत्तियों की चमक पुलिस की असहज उपस्थिति दर्ज करा रही थी, लेकिन वहां खड़ा हर शख्स जानता था — ये कोई आम मर्डर नहीं। “कौन है?” अयान ने उतरते ही पूछा। “साहब… एक औरत है,” कॉन्स्टेबल दुबे ने सिर झुकाते हुए जवाब दिया, “किसी ने सिर पर वार किया है, मौके पर ही…

  • Crime - English

    Salt in the Wound

    July 25, 2025 - By 

    Mukta Joshi 1 The sun had not yet risen over the vast white plains of the Rann of Kutch, but the world was already glowing. A ghostly sheen hung over the salt flats, where the land met the sky in a silent, horizonless stretch of emptiness. Abdul Rehman Shaikh squinted into the distance, the crunch of salt beneath his sandals breaking the stillness. He had walked this path for over thirty years, guiding workers and checking the progress of the salt beds, but this morning something was different. There was an unnatural stillness near the third trench—where the water had…

  • Crime - English - Suspense

    The Last File of Officer Rane

    July 24, 2025 - By 

    Nabin Mishra Chapter 1: The Cassette The rain had returned to Mumbai like an old debt collector—persistent, uninvited, and soaked in memory. Officer Vinayak Rane sat by the rusting grill of his Dadar flat, the yellowed curtains barely swaying as he watched water trickle down the windowpane like the slow bleed of time. His apartment was a museum of silence, its walls lined with worn furniture and an old transistor that hadn’t caught a frequency in years. He smoked his first cigarette of the day at 4 p.m., his back aching from sleep he never remembered falling into. When the…

  • Crime - English - Suspense

    The Clay Idol Murders

    July 22, 2025 - By 

    Debasish Guha Chapter 1: The Cracked Clay The scent of wet earth and incense filled the narrow lanes of Kumartuli as the morning sun filtered through bamboo scaffolding and half-finished goddesses. It was five days before Mahalaya, and the air in Kolkata shimmered with anticipation. The idol-makers worked tirelessly, smearing layers of straw and clay onto skeletal bamboo frames, coaxing divine forms into being. But something had gone terribly wrong at Workshop No. 14. Apprentice boys stood frozen outside, whispering in hushed tones as their trembling eyes stayed locked on the massive figure of a half-finished Durga. The goddess’s eyes,…