Indianlit Stories

Arya knew she was going to be married to a stranger and expected to make family with him. She isn't hesitant about it nor is she reluctant to the idea. After all, it led to her meeting with her soulmate by luck. ▬▬ total wordcount : 8.5k words © starlane 2024.

When Ishara randomly picked a dessert place to order a butterscotch toast, she didn't expect herself to develop a crush on the handsome and eloquent delivery guy. She also didn't expect him to actually be the rich co-owner of the said dessert place. ──── wordcount: 17k words the sweet bakes compendium # 1 © starlane 2025

Mani had kept her feelings hidden under the wraps and folds of her heart. The years she has spent avoiding Vihaan and trying to move on all come to vain when she impulsively proposes doing a work assignment with him. Now, everything threatens to spill over - her secrets and her feelings. ──── part 4. of the UTS series wordcount: 1973 words © starlane 2026

Aadi, unexpectedly, finds himself rooming with his friend's friend - a runaway bride. He had intended it to be a simple, temporary living arrangement. Obviously, fate had other plans. ──── wordcount: -- words the sweet bakes compendium # 2 © starlane 2026

[ extended novel version of 'all for you' ] [ UPDATES EVERY TUESDAY & FRIDAY 6 PM IST ] 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. ━━━━⊱⋆⊰━━━━ wordcount: 5698 words © galaxylane 2026

A rom-com 'meet cute' between a florist and barista 🌷☕💌 #1 in 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 ♡

꒰ desi soft romance x childhood friend ꒱ ──── In which Anu & Vineet's daughter ends up falling for Maya & Ved's son. This is the short and sweet story of how Sitara ended up together with Agastya. ──── part 5 of the UTS series [final] current wordcount : 3.2k words © adelaide 2025

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

1st book in the Theory series. {desi coaching classes romance} short story. Grumpy X Sunshine, high school/classroom romance. Karan Sinha and Ayushi Rajput were classmates, studying to become doctors. Their shared study time after classes sparked mutual crushing on each other. Contains 1st person as well as 3rd person POV. .•°''°•~🤍~•°''°•. Might change the cover later. <3

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...

#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 )

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.

This is a story about yearning. This is a story about finding home in a person. This is a story about Inaya, a lonely accountant, meets her first love after many years. This is really just a story about two losers in love. ──── [ standalone ] wordcount: 53k words unedited © ade 2025

Laya is going viral. Satyajit is texting the wrong number. Neither of these things should've happened. Too bad now; nobody is stopping. Book #1 of The After Effects Duology A lighthearted, semi-dialogue story- random, mostly-slow updates!

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.

Ayana did not expect her crush to order from her kitchen service. She also did not expect him to catch feelings for her. But, life has a way of surprising her when she least expected it to. Now, she finds herself in the midst of a romance simmering between the two of them. ▬▬ pulan uni # 2 total wordcount : 13.2k words. © adelaide 2024.

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 © galaxylane 2024

In which perpetually tired Mahira is bombarded with cat memes everyday by the ever cheerful Kishan. ─────── Just Love series # 1 © ade 2025

[ lovelorn duology # 2 ] Karthi x Nyra