Technology changes quickly.
Human nature does not.
I write thrillers at the crossroads of relationships, technology & moral dilemmas. Through my stories I explore what happens when technology encounters desire, secrecy, ambition, grievance and power.
The devices change. And therefore, the systems become more sophisticated. No wonder then, that the consequences travel farther and faster. Yet beneath every dating-app deception, cyber breach or act of digital manipulation is something recognisably human: a choice, a vulnerability, a misplaced trust or an unresolved grievance.
That intersection of technology, relationships and moral dilemmas is where my stories begin.
Stories Built Around the Human Layer
Technology changes the tools. Human choices create the consequences.
Technology
Dating apps, digital footprints, cyber breaches, artificial intelligence and the systems that increasingly shape modern life.
Relationships
Love, friendship, loyalty, secrecy and the pressure created when private choices become visible.
Moral Dilemmas
Choices, vulnerabilities, ambition, grievance and power — the recognisably human forces beneath the technology.
Building the LSBVerse
My first novel, Love Swipe Blackmail, was published by Anecdote Publishing House in 2021.
It begins with one impulsive swipe and the digital trail it leaves behind. What follows is a story of temptation, blackmail, intimate betrayal and the friends who refuse to abandon one of their own.
The novel was originally intended to stand alone. But then readers began asking what happened next. They wanted to know what is happening in the lives of Ravi, Vandana and Bhanu, their friends, former lovers and complicated relationships surrounding them.
Those questions led to not only Shadow Play: Love and Blackmail, launched on 14 January 2026, but also to the birth of LSBVerse.
The relationships continue, but the conflict grows larger. Private deception gives way to cyber breaches, ruined careers, fake companies, reputational attacks and national-security concerns. The vulnerabilities remain human, even when the institutions and technologies around them become more powerful.
The stakes move up from intimate to institutional. The attack surface graduates from a mobile app, to enterprise infrastructure.
Book 1 · Intimate
Love Swipe Blackmail
Temptation, secrecy, digital exposure and intimate betrayal.
Book 2 · Institutional
Shadow Play: Love and Blackmail
Cyber breaches, careers, companies, reputation and national-security concerns.
Book 3 · International
Book Three — In Development
Artificial intelligence, India–China technological competition and international power.
Together, the novels form the making of the LSBVerse; the expanding fictional universe that began with Love Swipe Blackmail.
A third novel is now in development. It will carry the LSBVerse from intimate deception and institutional conflict into the world of artificial intelligence, India–China technological competition and international power. At its heart lies another human question: what happens when technology does not merely enable our choices, but begins shaping them?
The Stories Before the Stories
My fascination with stories began long before I thought of writing a novel.
They first arrived through family, history, comics, classrooms and conversations.
Stories at Home
My mother narrated stories from the Ramayan and Mahabharat. My father gave me Amar Chitra Katha comics to read and learn from.
As I was growing up, family elders would narrate stories about India’s freedom struggle. They were part of the conversations through which I began understanding the country.
History with a Human Face
My nanaji and nanima came from Sialkot, now in Pakistan. Their stories of survival, rebuilding and triumph gave history a human face. Their battles taught me that great events are ultimately experienced through individual lives, families and choices.
Defence, Aircraft and an Early Plot Twist
Schooling in Kendriya Vidyalayas added another influence. Many of my classmates came from military families, and I developed an abiding interest in Indian defence. During the 1990s, I built scale models of the fighter aircraft operated by the Indian Air Force. My ambition was to fly a Jaguar; until near-sightedness introduced an early plot twist.
The aircraft remained on the ground. The interest in military affairs, strategy and national power did not.
The Questions That Stayed
Over the years, my reading expanded across itihas, military history, economics, physics, technology and strategy. These interests may appear unrelated, but they frequently return to the same questions: How is power created? Why do people trust? What causes institutions to fail? And how can one decision alter the course of a much larger story?
From Technology and Strategy to Fiction
I have worked in and around the Information Technology industry since 2001. My professional journey has taken me through Kolkata, Bengaluru and Chandigarh before bringing me to Gurgaon, where I am now based.
During my years at Wipro and CMS IT Services, I worked in roles connected with people, organisations and strategy. The experience showed me that systems rarely operate independently of the humans who design, manage and sometimes exploit them.
Today, I am the Founder of Trueval Partners, where I help B2B organisations clarify who they are, what they stand for and how they should communicate their value. Brand strategy and fiction may appear to belong to different worlds, but both involve motives, perceptions, choices and the careful arrangement of information. One creates a compelling narrative for a business. The other puts characters in trouble.
Beyond the Page
I am also associated with 300 Fitness, where we work to make fitness purposeful and easier to sustain. I believe that building strength should not require a separate life; it should become part of the one we already lead.
I contribute to ThePrint and speak at educational institutions, corporate forums, book discussions and literary events. I am also an ardent devotee of Bhagwan Hanuman.
When I am not writing, reading, discussing strategy or thinking about the next turn in the LSBVerse, I am usually noticing a story hiding in ordinary life.
Some become essays.
Some become anecdotes.
And some wait patiently until they are ready to become thrillers.
A Journey in Four Milestones
Working in and around the Information Technology industry.
Love Swipe Blackmail published by Anecdote Publishing House.
Shadow Play: Love and Blackmail launched on 14 January.
Book Three expands the LSBVerse into AI, international competition and power.
Stories, essays and conversations about technology, trust and power.
Continue into the LSBVerse, read Nitish’s essays and stories, or get in touch for speaking engagements and literary conversations.