One Night Stand – It Just Happened

ONE NIGHT STAND Flash Fiction – A Love Story By VIKRAM KARVE The terrifying nightmare grew. It was just one revolving pattern of flames; with inhuman sounds coming at him form every angle. When he tried to use his limbs, nothing happened. He looked down at his legs and saw that the left one was [...]

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…

Derby – A Fiction Short Story by Vikram Karve

Click the link and read on my creative writing blog, my fiction short story DERBY: http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/04/derby.htm Regards Vikram Karve

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.  [...]

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 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

The Visitor – Fiction Short Story

Click the link below and read my short story – The Visitor http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/09/the-visitor-fiction-short-story.htm VIKRAM KARVE

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 [...]

The Wallflower [parts 1,2,3,4,5]

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 [...]