Indianlit Stories

They were just bestfriends. Until they weren't. After three years of silence, Anya and Aarav meet again-awkward, distant, and full of things left unsaid. A misunderstanding kept them apart. And now... new feelings are pulling them closer. Jealousy, late-night talks, coffee, and almost-confessions- maybe some stories don't end. Maybe they just... wait.

Arya was always prepared for an arranged marriage. A union that would have her parents doing most of the work at first. Then, she'd learn to love the man - whoever he was. Turns out, learning to love wasn't a difficult thing at all for a married couple. ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ © galaxylane 2026

In which a cheerful bank manager crosses paths with her infuriating first love-the one person she spent a decade erasing from her heart, only to find him sitting on her couch, as if she never left. ──── © half-hope 2026

When a truth-and-dare question turns Chavi's life upside down and pushes her toward the only person whom she had pulled with herself, Garvit, in the turmoil. dive in for some sour and sweet banters and most of all, teenage romance! 💌

𝑨 𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑽𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑲𝒖𝒛𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒊'𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆

Crossed Paths is a heartfelt teen romance about two childhood classmates who grow up as neighbours, separated by time but connected by fate. As Param and Swati navigate school life, silent crushes, and missed chances, another story unfolds on the athletics field where rivals Rashi and Karthik clash, compete, and slowly discover feelings neither of them expected. Two love stories. One neighbourhood. And countless moments where destiny quietly brings hearts closer.

desi oneshot + second chances The one where Rutvi and Rihaan are in love, but can they get over the weight of secrets and build a new life together? #20 in asianlit on 10/10/2025

April 13th, 1919-the day acting military commander Reginald Dyer opened fire on the people gathered at the enclosed space of Jallianwala Bagh. Saraswati is a seventeen year old whose parents died in the same massacre. She barely escapes from being killed herself with the help of a British stranger-a recruit of the Anglo-Indian army. Staying with him, she soon finds out that her parents were not simply the victims of a brutal killing, but had been chased and murdered for an entirely different reason. Saraswati gradually starts to uncover these secrets and their astonishing connection to herself and the mysterious stranger. ***** This short story was selected for the final round of Yuva writing contest held by the government of India.

He didn't lose the dreams; he simply grew past wanting them. A quiet return. A gentle ache. A self once imagined, now different.

Letters written for the ones who want to know me or want to know the words that have been unspoken for so long.

Toru owes King Stuvan everything, including his life. So when the king sends him on an impossible quest, refusal does not even come to Toru's mind. But as he maneuvers a snowy landscape that wants him dead and stumbles upon shelter, he realises not everything is as it seems...

❝ the ending is where it all began ❞ Mizpah is a tale of Varsha and Vidhyut but it is tangled with many others who have gotten caught in the web of mysteries, revelation and so much more. It might be the end but the end is where it all began. Vrishti is seeking to solve some of these mysteries as there might be a possibility of it related to her mother's death. Therefore here she is centuries later but something unexpected happens when her paths cross with Vidhyut? Read to find out more Love isn't easy but so isn't death. What happens when Vidhyut gets another chance to make his love happen? What does he choose? [extended synopsis inside]

#WINNER OF WATTPAD INDIA AWARDS 2021 (MATTERS OF HEART CATEGORY) Veritas is one of the big players in journalism- legacy, history, hard hitting journalists and writers. A family of truth tellers. Anita was born into the same family; raised on facts and logic. And she is aware- a news story needs both. Anita is an ambitious, intelligent journalist- she's keen on maintaining her father's heritage while also creating her own space. Her professors think she's meant to be one of the greats. But too much ego- isn't good thing at 21. And life has a lot to teach you at 21, Anita learns. An accident temporarily cripples her and sends her for "rest and recovery" to England. But Anita is too restless to rest. What ensues- is a troubling twenties cocktail- she falls in love. Its' reckless, its' passionate - and most importantly conceals the truth. Truth telling, no more. When a house of cards falls down- nothing remains. Can Anita find it in herself to build a world of her own when things fall apart? Or will she bow down like many before her? What does it mean for a woman to have a world of her own? And can the modern woman truly have it all? The story that didn't make it to the headlines. ( 59,000 WORDS )

desi oneshot + meet cute The one where Samar decides to save the beautiful girl on table 6 from a bad date - with the performance of a lifetime. #10 in asianlit #9 in indianlit

YOU CAN NOW LISTEN TO THE HINDI AUDIOBOOK, just on Audible! [ FEATURED ON WATTPAD INDIA'S JANUARY 2020 READING LIST: TEEN FICTION] A typical Indian family. A bit conservative, quite pushy and forcefully loving. And in the middle of that sits Shweta. She's a spunky eighteen year old with a mind of her own and a sassy mouth to match. She's got her own views about her life and doesn't hesitate letting other people know about it. Only it doesn't often bode well for her. This time, Shweta's really done it. She's falling for a person who she knows her strict family will absolutely not approve. If that wasn't enough, her period's gone missing. What happens when Shweta tells her mother the truth? Drama, of course. Only she hadn't expected things to fall apart as drastically as they do. Join Shweta as she tries to brush off the shaming, keep her head high and try to find a place for herself in the sometimes judgy and rigid world. Will she succeed? Or will she bow her head and allow society to bend her into shape like countless before her? A coming-of-age story. [WORD COUNT: 51,000 WORDS] COMPLETED.

What happens when an overworked, food-loving marketing executive starts losing her homemade tiffin in the office fridge? WAR. Samaira Desai is done. Her carefully packed, soul-soothing tiffins keep vanishing, and she's ready to hunt down the culprit. Enter Ishaan Malhotra-mysterious, annoyingly charming, and definitely hiding something. But is he the real tiffin thief? Or just a guy caught in the chaos of her hunger-fueled vendetta? Between sticky notes, sassy emails, and accidental encounters, the office turns into a battleground of food, flirtation, and unexpected feelings. One tiffin. One mystery. One love story waiting to be unwrapped. 🍛💖 Are you ready for a rom-com full of food, fun, and fiery chemistry?

When secret assassin Purnima Vaishnav gets matched to someone who might threaten her job, will she succeed in killing him off?

✦°• - 𝐓𝐞𝐚, 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 - ✦°• [ 𝖠 𝖱𝗈𝗆-𝖼𝗈𝗆 𝖤𝗉𝗂𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗅𝖺𝗋𝗒, 𝖿𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗎𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝖿𝗋𝗂𝖾𝗇𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗉, 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗎𝗇𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝖺𝗇𝗍𝖾𝗋𝗌 ]

Sarojini and Aakash have always known each other. Sarojini and Aakash don't think they could flirt with each other. It starts out sweet. Too bad, it's sugar rush now. Book #2 of The After-effects Duology A lighthearted, semi-dialogue story- random, mostly-slow updates!

He doesn't know when it started. Not the moment. Not the reason. Just that somewhere between a new school, familiar routines, and conversations that didn't seem important- something stayed. She wasn't supposed to matter. Not like that. But some people don't leave when they're gone. They stay in the way you think. In the things you remember. In the silence between everything else. This isn't a love story. It's about something quieter than that. Something you don't notice until it's already real.