ROMANCE – A Love Story

ROMANCE By VIKRAM KARVE    [Dear Reader, here is one of my earliest mushy love stories for you to read this festive season when romance is in the air. Do tell me if you liked it]                 HIS STORY   Sanjay stared blankly at the TV set, never so frightened, never so alone.  [...]

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 [...]

Book Review – The Importance of Living

BOOK REVIEW [A book that enriched my life and taught me the art of living]   Title: THE IMPORTANCE OF LIVINGAuthor: LIN YUTANGPublished: 1937 (New York, USA), Indian Edition: 1960 JAICO MumbaiISBN: 81-7224-829    There is one book you will never find in my bookcase – you will always find it by my bedside near my pillow. At night, [...]

Lovedale – a short story

LOVEDALE   (a short story)   by   VIKRAM KARVE                 Lovedale. A quaint little station on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway that runs from Mettupalayam in the plains on a breathtaking journey to beautiful Ooty, the Queen of Hill Stations. On Lovedale station there is just one small [...]

A SMALL GIRL’S TALE

A SMALL GIRL’S TALE   (a fiction short story)   by  VIKRAM KARVE        It all started when God took my baby brother away. Poor thing! God took him away even before he was born. And Mamma was never the same again; she changed forever.     We were so happy then. My [...]

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 [...]

Lovedale to Coonoor – Don’t Delve Too Much

DON’T DELVE TOO MUCH (a fiction short story) By VIKRAM KARVE             The moment I see Muthu, the office-boy, standing at the door of the class room I feel a familiar fear. I close my eyes and try to concentrate on Ms Bhalla who is reading aloud with dramatic effect Ruskin Bond’s story ‘The Woman [...]

Lovedale

LOVEDALE   (a short story)   by   VIKRAM KARVE                 Lovedale. A quaint little station on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway that runs from Mettupalayam in the plains on a breathtaking journey to beautiful Ooty, the Queen of Hill Stations. On Lovedale station there is just one small [...]

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 [...]

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

FOOD FOR THOUGHT    By    VIKRAM KARVE       A renowned Trainer entered a hall to deliver a lecture on Motivation to the employees of a large industrial organization.  To his horror he found that the hall was empty except for a young man seated in the front row.      The Trainer asked him [...]