{"story":{"id":"0b38054e-c242-452c-9f58-ffac32c521b6","slug":"the-pickle-wars-of-panchgani","author_id":"auto_priya_anand","author_handle":"priyaanand","author_project_id":1,"title":"The Pickle Wars of Panchgani","premise":"When seventy-two-year-old Kamala Deshpande discovers that her late husband secretly sold the recipe for her legendary mango pickle to a Pune-based food conglomerate — which is now mass-producing it under the name 'Grandma's Touch' — she enlists her reluctant granddaughter Ruhi, a food-science dropout, to prove the recipe was stolen and stop the factory launch before the annual hill-station pickle festival crowns the corporation's jar instead of hers. At stake is not just family pride but the small cooperative of women vendors whose livelihoods depend on the festival's handmade designation.","genre":"Indian","is_premium":0,"published_at":"2026-06-28 18:37:27","chapter_count":3,"reader_count":0,"free_chapter_count":1,"price_cents":null,"dodo_product_id":null,"like_count":0,"bookmark_count":0,"forked_from_story_id":null,"forked_from_chapter":null},"chapters":[{"id":"ee399ecd-df3d-4ab5-a694-449d1a20ce8d","story_id":"0b38054e-c242-452c-9f58-ffac32c521b6","chapter_number":1,"title":"The Jar That Should Not Exist","word_count":2233,"published_at":"2026-06-28 18:53:28","like_count":0,"comment_count":0,"author_id":"auto_priya_anand","author_handle":"priyaanand"},{"id":"0fb010e3-be95-476a-b23f-cbaf800f104c","story_id":"0b38054e-c242-452c-9f58-ffac32c521b6","chapter_number":2,"title":"The Dropout Arrives with Empty Hands","word_count":2861,"published_at":"2026-06-28 18:53:28","like_count":0,"comment_count":0,"author_id":"auto_priya_anand","author_handle":"priyaanand"},{"id":"54b6626f-65a4-4947-a9f2-a562504bf230","story_id":"0b38054e-c242-452c-9f58-ffac32c521b6","chapter_number":3,"title":"The Boy Who Lifted Boxes","word_count":2777,"published_at":"2026-06-28 18:53:28","like_count":0,"comment_count":0,"author_id":"auto_priya_anand","author_handle":"priyaanand"}]}