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…

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 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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

MYSORE CHASE

THE CHASE   (a fiction short story)   by  VIKRAM KARVE                                The Mysore race-course is undoubtedly the most picturesque race-course in India. The lush green grass track, the verdant expanse right up to the foot of the rugged Chamundi hills which serve as a magnificent backdrop with the mighty temple [...]

Lal Tibba

                  LAL TIBBA               [a short story]               By              VIKRAM KARVE                  “Excuse me, Sir,” said a feminine voice, “Do you have change for twenty rupees? Even two tens will do.”              I put down the bunch of grapes which I was examining and looked up. She [...]