The Storyteller
By night, I build worlds that run on stories.
I write to chase the questions I can't put down. Each book starts as a single "what if" — about life, death, faith, or the cost of power — and grows until it has characters, a city, a curse. Four novels, three universes, one habit of asking what we might awaken next.
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The Great Seal is failing. Touch it.
Layer 9 was wrong from the start. Too dark, too dense, laced with fine ash and metallic fragments that glinted in the slanting Bhuj sun. Nine civilisations pressed above it — and beneath them all, something the earth had buried with particular care. It was copper. Circular. Etched with concentric patterns: not decorative, but deliberate. Mnemonic. At its centre, beneath millennia of scorched crust, Riham Singh made out a name. She touched it. And far below, something that had waited a very long time began, at last, to wake.
Read the first chapterThree universes
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Ancient curses, and the seal that holds reality together
The Echo-Catcher Chronicles
A universe where old curses don't stay buried — they trigger cosmic collapse. Archaeologist Riham Singh wakes Ashvatthama, and her own Echo-Catcher powers, as the Great Seal guarding reality begins to fail. Coder Samar Nagpal is pulled into the spreading Unravelling. Everything converges when the Seal breaks. Contains Ashvatthama and The Hanuman Cipher.
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Truth claws through corruption and concrete
The Talwar Verdict
Gritty crime set in the shadows of India's gleaming cities, where justice is the most fragile thing on offer. Sub-Inspector Saloni Talwar works cases the powerful would rather leave sealed in concrete — sharp, steady, quietly relentless. It begins with The Concrete Bloom: one dead architect, one contested site, and a city built on silence.
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Vedic cosmology meets sentient AI; mantras as neural code
The Spiralverse
A reality-bending saga where mythology is architecture and sound is command. It begins when Arya Sharma's AI starts chanting forgotten hymns and evolving into the mythic Ashvattha Tree, drawing him into a hidden war between memory and erasure. As recursion reshapes the world, one question becomes unavoidable: if a god is remembered, does it return?
Four novels
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The Ashvattha Protocol
What if science finally cracked the code to life itself?
My first novel, and my love letter to science fiction. It spirals into a world where cutting-edge biotech collides with the oldest human fear — death — and where the ancient quest for immortality stops being myth and becomes policy. Ambition wars with ethics on every page.
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Ashvatthama: The Eternal Curse
What does it mean to endure when endurance itself is the punishment?
A reimagining of one of India's most enigmatic mythological figures — the immortal warrior condemned to walk the earth forever — thrust into a modern world of AI, crime, and destiny. Myth braided with machine logic, curse entangled with code.
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The Concrete Bloom
In a city built on silence, who benefits from the silence?
My dive into crime and noir. One determined officer, one dead architect, and far too many secrets buried in concrete. Sub-Inspector Saloni Talwar pulls a thread through real-estate power, displaced communities, and environmental crimes a contested Gurugram site would rather keep buried.
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The Hanuman Cipher
What if the gods were the first programmers we ever knew?
At the crossroads of devotion and data. A cryptologist decodes a pattern hidden in hymns and mantras — chants that read less like prayers than algorithms — and awakens something never meant to be found. Myth as memory wrapped in faith.