Trials of Love
Poem, drabbles and short stories!This book contains all my entries for the Trial of Love contest - a Romance Collaboration (hosted by Wattpad Romance in collaboration with a host of other Wattpad profiles).…
Deception
When SNLRS Consultancy Private Limited announces the complete acquisition of the Maheshwari Enterprises and all the affiliated companies, it creates a buzz in the industrial world and also rattles a few business houses. Nowhere are the tremors felt more keenly than in the offices of Shekhar Gaddodia, owner of the successful Kolkata Times newspaper and the popular City of Joy Magazine. The tremors are intensified by the instigation of a friendly business rival and aggravated by the rise of old jealousies. In an attempt to unearth the men behind SRLNS Consultancy, they plan a series of innocuous interviews, seemingly to be used to increase the popularity of the Magazine.Swara Gadodia is a bubbly young woman with ambition and creativity in equal measure. Though empathetic by nature, she is willing to do what is needed to succeed in her chosen career, especially when she perceives it as chance to prove her mettle to the only person she looks up to, her sister, Ragini Gadodia. So when she gets a chance to find out who the real man or men behind SNLRS Consultancy are, she does not hesitate to accept the assignment; overruling all her sister's vehement objections.And thus begins her adventure into the world of deception, where she learns that everyone, including herself, has something to hide; for small secrets, big lies, strange stories and tall tales come tumbling out. She discovers that appearances are deceptive and things are rarely what they seem; and it is in this web of deception, which she set out to unravel as a puzzle but ends up finding herself.______________________________________🏆 - Peacock Awards : Overall Winner and Best Graphics in Fanfiction Category…
AMARANTHINE
He reads romance, she swears by Mathematics. He believes in love till infinity, for her it is just a symbol defining something larger than any natural number. His life has been defined by love stories, she claims to have empirical evidence that her family is 'cursed' when it comes to that emotion. He spends evenings and nights, wondering how to win back his estranged fiancee while she feels that love is a waste of time. And when they strike a deal to help each other, it has the expected result of them falling in love with each other. However, what is life without a twist? An accident forces them apart and they would have continued their disparate lives if they were not forced to work together by their zealous siblings. Once again, it is impossible for them to deny their feelings, as old memories are stirred and new desires awaken. However, this time round, would they learn that love cannot be defined by grammatical connotations nor set to mathematical concepts? Would they realise that true love needs faith and perseverance, not mere poetic definitions? Would they understand what it means to find love? One love...to have and to hold... A simple romance in three acts...Completed.🏆 Overall Winner (Romance) - The Peacock Awards❤️️ Special Mention in the Romance Reads Contest 2019 (A high rating).…
The Sword's Song
ONC#2019 Long List The legends spoke of it, the myths whispered of it too; tales of a sword, forged in hope and wrought in despair, drawn out in light and quenched in darkness, made by a simple blacksmith, yet a blade so powerful that it could even destroy the Gods. It is believed that the swordsman worthy of lifting this sword was a true warrior, one who would be rendered invincible. And those who survived the battles fought alongside this warrior, swore that they could hear the blade sing.It was during the darkest battles, where the very existence of the world was threatened, that the blade would find its blade master, the warrior who would need it to fight the battle, to hope for a chance at victory. At least that is what was believed, for no battle seemed dire enough to have the blade appear in the last four thousand years.Four thousand, one hundred and sixty five years after the last recorded tale of the battle,where the blade had appeared, sixteen year old Aindri, much to her shock and delight, discovers that the legends are true and the myths are facts. But then what the myths guarded was a fearsome secret; for the sword to be rendered powerful, it needed a sacrifice, a price to be paid, willingly...Completed.…
Passion's Panorama - Amaranthine Tales
This is a series of short stories, all about Shaurya, Aabha and the other characters of Amaranthine.Whilst the same can be read as standalone tales, it would help if the reader was aware of Amaranthine.…
Sweet Deals
At twenty four, Swara was proud of being labelled as an ice maiden. She firmly believed that owing to one rash decision she had made, the simple expectations from life; like love, marriage and a family, were not on the cards for her, and would shut the door on the face of any man who dared approach her. Till a stranger walked into her bakery and coffee shop, one rainy night.Sanskaar believed that nothing could be irrevocably wrong and even broken things and people are beautiful because of their cracks. But then Swara has lived with her guilt for too long and her heart has hardened under that burden. Would he be able to make her see the light which shines through those cracks?A light-hearted tale as to how life sometimes gives second chances and all one needs is to take a risk again for it could lead to true love.Number of Chapters - A Baker's DozenAwards Won:Second Place in World of Champions Award 2018…
A Love Like None Other
Can two people always love equally or is love more of an equivalent emotion, much like the sun loves the earth and the earth reciprocates the same?The sun can be cruel; the blazing fires of his love, sometimes burn the very earth he loves, but the earth bears it all and with a smile. The sun can sulk and hide behind the clouds but the earth never shies away. The sun is unwavering in his love but the earth is unswerving in her path too, despite the many rotations she makes, often turning her face away from the sun, she will always revolve around him. Similarly, Swara and Sanskaar might never love each other as equally as one does the other but it is a very equivalent love that they have for each other, it is indeed ........A LOVE LIKE NONE OTHER…
Justuju: A Quest for Love
A web of chance, choice and circumstances so intricately woven that love seemed improbable and impossible. But then it was a love so enduring that it journeys through multiple universes and realities, across time and space, till it finds fulfilment.Justuju: (जुस्तजू): borrowed from Persian ( جستجو) and means quest, search or pursuitPronunciation: IPA(key): /d͡ʒʊs.t̪ə.d͡ʒuː/…
Telling of Tales
This is a collection of all my SwaSan /Swaragini One Shots (stories, vignettes and others )- all closely based on the serial track, they start with a small story/event in the serial and then my imagination takes over to twist it and give it a new perspective.…
Yeong Ai
Disclaimer - Though the title is in Mandarin, the story is in English and is set in an Indian cultural backdrop.Now that it is out of the way, what is the duology about? This is a story about how giving up the dream of eternal love sets the lovers on the exact path to each other.It is a tale or rather a set of two tales, one an adaption of a O'Henry novel (An Unknown Romance) and the second is a take on what could have happened after the twisted ending of the first tale.…
Euphony of the Elements
A summation of the events leading Swara and Sanskaar's wedding; as each of the four recalled their actions leading to this event. A recollection of their journey dealing with:Ragini's transformation from a sweet girl to a woman with bitterness, willing to go to any lengths to get what she wants, till she realises that she has lost everything, including the one person she loves above all.Swara's ordeal as she learns that those whom you love are never there for you and it is foolish to push away the only man who had always been by your side; Laksh's realisation that though it is easy to blame Ragini for her manipulations it was his inability to trust that destroyed his love and happinessSanskaar's acceptance that revenge is cold and unhappy and is never a solution, that love, as oft told, does heal old wounds and create new hopes.It is a tale told in the form of a ballad with each element symbolising each of the four protagonists.…
LITOST
Swara and Sanskaar ; Ragini and Laksh; Swara and Ragini. Sanskaar and Laksh.Siblings married to siblings. Half-sisters wedded to cousins.Love, hate, love , hate, love - a perpetual cycle that they found themselves in, from where they could neither stay in nor break out from. By a strange quirk of destiny all four found themselves at a point where they had a chance to continue on the path of self-destruction or to stand still and introspect, to find where it was that one went wrong and then seek to make amends.Would they take this chance to introspect? And if they did introspect, what would they find?…
Swara's Ordeal - Epistles in prose
This is a series of letters from Swara to Sanskaar - seven of them, in total - and closely follow the serial canon, covering the time period from the moment Swara realises how wrong she was to suspect Sanskaar till a few moments before the wedding. All the letters are my attempt to write down what Swara would be feeling and cover a gamut of emotions; angst, hope, love, and a bit of humour in one....…
Miscellanea
A collection of musings, an expression of my ramblings. It consists of my opinion on everything and anything, warranted or unwarranted. Liked or not. Read or ignored.Also written out, partly on account of my attempt to write something , every day (one which I have failed in, quite spectacularly)…