• English - Romance

    Sparks in Silicon Valley

    July 1, 2025 - By 

    Supriya Mishra Chapter 1: Clash of Codes Ayesha Mehra stood in the middle of the buzzing tech office, staring at the whiteboard covered in complicated diagrams, code snippets, and post-it notes with deadlines scribbled in frantic handwriting. The pressure of the launch date loomed over her like a storm cloud. She had always been the type of person to thrive in a high-pressure environment, but the recent series of miscommunications between her team and the higher-ups had pushed her to the edge. The startup was at a critical juncture, and Ayesha, one of the lead developers, knew that everything depended…

  • English - Romance

    My Boss, My Ex

    June 25, 2025 - By 

    Rhea Jha The conference room was freezing, or maybe it was just her hands that had turned cold. Aisha Kapoor adjusted the cuff of her blazer for the third time in five minutes, a nervous habit she thought she’d long abandoned. The team sat around the glass table, murmurs of speculation buzzing in the air—new leadership, potential restructuring, rumors about a merger. But all Aisha could focus on was the ticking clock on the wall, inching closer to ten. Her mind wasn’t in the present, not really. It was tangled somewhere between a finance report and a memory she had…

  • Comedy - English

    Stocks & Shenanigans

    June 16, 2025 - By 

    Siddharth Bhattacharjee Part 1 Monday mornings had a peculiar smell at Dalal Street—part anxiety, part ambition, and a solid dose of stale filter coffee. For Rudra Sen, senior broker at Kothari & Sons Securities (no Kothari worked there anymore), it also smelled like danger. Not because of the stock market, but because his ancient laptop, nicknamed “Laxmi”, had a tendency to start only on alternate days. Today, unfortunately, was not one of them. Rudra’s day began, as always, with a lecture from his boss, a man with a moustache thick enough to have its own Aadhaar card. “Sen, Sensex is…