[ Featured on AmbassadorsIN ] Nithya's trip to Assam was supposed to be a peaceful getaway-until the rain started pouring and she found herself seeking shelter in a cozy spice shop.

¶¶We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same Horizon¶¶ We find a sadistic pleasure in categorising things, and humans, on the basis of various criterias. Pain, is one of those criterias, on the basis of which, we can categorise humans into two groups. One, who are so devastated by ache that it paralyses them, snatches away their laughter and fill each of their cracks with sorrow. The other, who get so used to pain that they forget they are themselves hurting. They laugh and they smile, in a constant state of numbness, and the world calls them indifferent. Dhara Malik is the former kind, and Vyom Bakshi the latter. And this is their story!

「 desi epistolary / dialogue story x writer-reader」 ▬▬ In which Vinaya finds out that her favorite online writer might be someone she knows...and someone who has a crush on her. ▬▬ culture series # 3 total wordcount : 8.5k words © adelaide 2024

「 desi dialogue story / epistolary x gamers」 ▬▬ In which Karan ends up playing a game with Ada, his university class-mate and develops a huge crush on her. ▬▬ culture series # 2 current wordcount : 8.7k words © adelaide 2024.

「 dialogue story / epistolary x highschool jock-nerd」 ▬▬ In which Zara, the school's shrew & nerd, accidentally texts the school's popular football team captain, Sahil, thinking it is her friend's new number. It just so happens that she was complaining about him...to him. ▬▬ culture series # 1 total wordcount : 5.3k © adelaide 2024

Piyali did not expect to fall in love. But she does. With Adithya... Adithya can't see the world. He lost his sight at the age of 6... This is the first time he is in love too. Adithya had never self-pitied on his condition. But when Piyali enters his life, he is about to change too.

[a desi college romance] Vijay and Nila have only one thing in common - they take the same bus at the same time everyday. What if this mere commonality steers their life into a whirlpool of uninvited feelings, wholesome conversations and unexpected connections, taking them on a ride they don't recall buying tickets for?

[ an autumn slowburn romance ] Asterin and Jayce have met before. Yet, they are strangers to each other except for the familiarity of each other's broken hearts. When Jayce is suspended from work until he produces a diagnostic report stating that he is mentally fit to work again, he finds himself at Asterin's doorstep, the so-called best therapist in town, only to flee her office in rage and determination. But annoyingly, they keep stumbling upon each other. Maybe - just maybe - their meetings are significant enough to assume there is a possible answer to the question 'why'. Join them as they discover, heal, grow and embrace their scars. Together. [70,000-80,000 words] - WINNER OF THE ROMANCE READS CONTEST HELD BY @Romance - WATTPAD INDIA AWARDS SHORTLIST 2021

[a desi small town romance] In which Anjali moves to Misayur, a small town in Western Tamilnadu to live with her grandmother and ends up running into her childhood crush Karthik, who is not the unserious boy she knew him as anymore. [Paper Hearts #2]

[ a desi dialogue story ] when a feisty entrepreneur texts the wrong number and the funny engineer can't help but fall for her.