DATING and MATING

I go home early, shower, deodorize, groom, titivate, put on my best shirt and wait in eager anticipation for this mysterious woman…

A Mumbai Story

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http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/05/a-lazy-hot-afternoon-in-mumbai-a-leisurely-story.htm
 
All the Best
vikram Karve

The Day After I Quit Smoking

THE DAY AFTER I QUIT SMOKING 
 By
 VIKRAM KARVE
One of the things that deters smokers from quitting decisively in one go is the fear of withdrawal symptoms. This results in smokers resorting to half-baked remedies like gradual reduction, nicotine patches, low tar cigarettes and various other futile therapies. In my opinion this exaggerated importance given to withdrawal [...]

THE AFFAIR by VIKRAM KARVE

Click the link below and read a fiction short story THE AFFAIR by Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/the-affair.htm
If you like it do read my fiction on my creative writing blog
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com
Regards
Vikram Karve

Life Process Outsourcing – LPO

Just click on the link below and read my story on LPO – Life Process Outsourcing:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/life-process-outsourcing-pure-fiction.htm
Do read all my creative writing on my sulekha creative writing blog:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com
Regards
Vikram Karve

QUALITY TIME

QUALITY TIME

(A fictional short “love” story)
 
by
 
VIKRAM KARVE
 
 
 
 
At exactly 8 PM her cell-phone rings in her hand. She’s expecting the call – that’s why she’s holding the cell-phone in her hand. She looks at the caller-id, accepts the call, moves the mobile phone near her ear and [...]

Freedom

FREEDOM
 
By
 
VIKRAM KARVE
       
                Anonymity. That’s what I like about Mumbai. As I lose myself in the sea of humanity leaving Churchgate station in the morning rush hour, I experience a refreshing sense of solitude. I notice that I am walking fast, in step with the crowd, as if [...]

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?” [...]

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 [...]

Quality Time

QUALITY TIME
(A fictional short “love” story)  
by  
VIKRAM KARVE    
    At exactly 8 PM her cell-phone rings in her hand. She’s expecting the call – that’s why she’s holding the cell-phone in her hand. She looks at the caller-id, accepts the call, moves the mobile phone near her ear and says, “I love [...]