A Pune Story

Click the link below and read on my creative writing blog:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/12/spdp-at-vaishali.htm
Vikram Karve

The Wallflower

THE WALLFLOWER
 
By
 
VIKRAM KARVE
 
 
 
[PART – 1]
 
 
 
 
            “I don’t want to marry Manisha,” I told my mother.
 
            My mother looked as if she had been pole-axed. Suddenly there was a metamorphosis in her expression – a distant look across my shoulder followed by a smile of forced geniality.
 
            “Manisha is coming!” my mother whispered.
 
            I turned around [...]

THE WALLFLOWER parts 1, 2 and 3

THE WALLFLOWER – PARTS 1, 2 AND 3

THE WALLFLOWER
By
VIKRAM KARVE
[PART – 1]
            “I don’t want to marry Manisha,” I told my mother.
            My mother looked as if she had been pole-axed. Suddenly there was a metamorphosis in her ex-pression – a distant look across my shoulder followed by a smile of forced geniality.
            “Manisha is [...]

LPO – Life Process Outsourcing – a short story by Vikram Karve

LPO

[LIFE PROCESS OUTSOURCING]
 
by

 
VIKRAM KARVE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
One leisurely morning, while I am loafing on Main Street, in Pune, I meet an old friend of mine.
 
 
 
“Hi!” I say.
 
 
 
“Hi,” he says, “where to?”
 
 
 
“Aimless loitering,” I say, “And you?” [...]

BLOG CAMP PUNE INDIA

BLOG CAMP PUNE

 
 
We had a lovely time at the Pune Blog Camp yesterday [Saturday 16th June 2007] at the Symbiosis Center for IT in the Hinjewadi IT Park. The venue was marvelous – hats off to the “unorganizers’ for choosing such an apt venue. Being my first visit to SCIT I was [...]