Married Bachelors

MARRIED BACHELORS 
[a fiction short story] 
By 
VIKRAM KARVE 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Married Bachelors are proliferating all around me. Come, walk around with me in my workplace and I’ll show you what I mean. 
Let’s meet the latest entrant to the Married Bachelors’ Club. 
“Congratulations,” I say. 
“Thank you, Sir,” says the smart upwardly mobile young man standing before me. 
“How was the wedding?” 
“Grand!” 
“Honeymoon?”  
“In
Seychelles.” 
“Wow! Come [...]

MY MONKEY TRAP

MY MONKEY TRAP  
By 
VIKRAM KARVE  
  
  
  
“Come, Vijay,” Captain Naik said, leading me into his study, “I’ll show you something interesting.” He opened a cupboard, pulled out a strange-looking contraption and laid it on the table. I looked at it, confused but curious. The peculiar apparatus consisted of a hollowed-out coconut attached to a solid iron [...]