The Storyteller's Lens

For the scenes that linger and the words that echo

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Crime & thriller novelist. Storyteller. I write about the films that hit like a plot twist — the ones that stay, sting, and refuse to be ignored.

Category: Original Writing

  • The Queen Who Chose the Boons – and the Price

    The Queen Who Chose the Boons – and the Price

    We remember Kaikeyi for the exile. But what if that decision was never about the throne? This is not a retelling. Just a different way of looking at it.  Swords clashed. Arrows tore through the air. Shouts rose and fell like waves. “Kaikeyi!” King Dasaratha’s voice cut through the chaos. She turned. The battlefield came…

  • The Battle before the War

    The Battle before the War

    Yesterday was Rama Navami. It got me thinking… We talk about the war in the Ramayana. About Rama. About Raavan. But what if the real battle began much earlier? Not on the battlefield. Not with armies. But in a quiet garden…where a woman refused to move. Hazy. Sita frowned. Why was everything hazy? She blinked,…