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• A LOVABLE DOBERMAN GIRL

  Posted on Saturday July 12th, 2008 at 13:41 in anthology, art, art of living, aundh, author, bachelor, biography, blog, blogcamp, blogger, blogging, blogroll

    cLICK THE LINK AND READ THE STORY   http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/07/sherry-karve-1.htm there is more to follow on my creative writing blog http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com Vikram Ka...

• POODLE-FAKING

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 12:56 in art of living, aundh, author, biography, blogcamp, blogger, Career, cause, Chic, chic lit, children, chowpatty

  Dear Reader, please click the link below, go to my creative writing blog , and start poodle-faking   http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/05/poodlefaking.htm   Have a good day Vikram Karve...

• Mumbai Pune Deccan Queen

  Posted on Wednesday May 14th, 2008 at 07:03 in anthology, author, Creative, Dating, deccan, deemed, diat, english, fiction, fun, girinagar, happiness

  A Mumbai Pune Deccan Queen love romance - click the link and read   http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/05/flirting-on-the-deccan-queen.htm   Happy Journey Vikram...

• Simple Happiness

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 13:29 in anchor, anthology, art of eating, art of living, blogroll, communication, Creative, deemed, diat, doberman, dog, drinking

  IT IS SIMPLE TO BE HAPPY by VIKRAM KARVE       The primary aim of philosophy and spirituality is to help ordinary people live a life of happiness, fulfillment and tranquility. Every day you ask ...

• The Art of Fast Food

  Posted on Wednesday March 19th, 2008 at 04:16 in anthology, apsara, art of eating, art of living, arts, author, bachelor, banaras, biography, blogcamp, blogger, Career

  Click the link and enjoy your fast food http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/03/the-art-of-fast-food.htm Happy Eating Vikram Karve...

• Girinagar

  Posted on Monday January 28th, 2008 at 03:53 in 2007, author, beauty, blogcamp, blogger, Career, College, Creative, deemed, dhayri, diat, donje

  GIRINAGAR   [Pristine Paradise in Pune]     Tell me, which is the most beautiful, most pristine, most unpolluted and most verdant place in Pune?   I’ll tell you – it’s a lovely place cal...

• A Delightful Book for Dog Lovers - Marley & Me by John Grogan - Book Review

  Posted on Tuesday December 11th, 2007 at 12:24 in 2007, anthology, art of living, aundh, author, biography, blogcamp, blogger, bombay, book, Chic, chic lit

  BOOK REVIEW MARLEY & ME Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog By John Grogan [Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006] ISBN 0 340 92209 5 [Reviewed by Vikram Karve] The essence of this book is e...

• CATWOE - A Soft Systems Model for Ethical Decision Making

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 06:56 in 2007, baramati, bhu, blogcamp, blogger, blogroll, catwoe, College, Creative, cupid, Dating, Engineering

  Please click the link and read the article on CATWOE http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/12/catwoe.htm Vikram Karve...

• FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS HELPS YOU QUIT DRINKING

  Posted on Friday May 4th, 2007 at 02:55 in addiction, alcoholism, art of eating, art of living, aundh, author, biography, Creative, drinking, ethics, force field, force field analysis

          DO YOU WANT TO QUIT DRINKING?   TRY FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS.   By   VIKRAM KARVE           Many years ago, at work, I used to employ a Management Technique called Force Field Analysis...

• Overcoming Withdrawal Symptoms

  Posted on Friday May 4th, 2007 at 02:45 in addiction, art of eating, art of living, aundh, author, Creative, drinking, eating, food blog, guide, happiness, indian

          OVERCOMING WITHDRAWAL SYMPTOMS   [THE DAY AFTER I QUIT SMOKING]   By VIKRAM KARVE         One of the things that deters smokers from quitting decisively in one go is the f...

• HOW I QUIT SMOKING by VIKRAM KARVE

  Posted on Friday May 4th, 2007 at 02:28 in addiction, art of eating, art of living, aundh, author, biography, Creative, desires, drinking, eating, ethics, food blog

  HOW I QUIT SMOKING   by   VIKRAM KARVE           I do not remember the precise moment I started smoking. Maybe it was sometime in college, in the seventies, when egged on by my friends I had ...

• FLASH FICTION - ME TOO

  Posted on Friday April 27th, 2007 at 00:57 in aundh, author, fiction, flash fiction, indian, karve, literature, marriage, musing, oxymoron, poona, pune

  ME TOO  by   VIKRAM KARVE        The moment I saw the e-mail I did two things. First I took a print-out of the mail, kept it in my purse and deleted the mail from my mailbox. Then I called t...

• Art of Living

  Posted on Friday April 27th, 2007 at 00:47 in art of living, aundh, author, book, Career, Creative, ethics, food blog, happiness, indian, interests, joy

  THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY   By   VIKRAM KARVE         'The map is not the territory!'   What does this mean?   Liehtse's famous parable of the Old Man at the Fort is perhaps apt to ill...

• Happiness

  Posted on Friday April 27th, 2007 at 00:41 in art of living, aundh, author, desires, happiness, karve, Leisure, musing, oxymoron, philosophy, poona, pune

          THE ART OF HAPPINESS By VIKRAM KARVE     The primary aim of philosophy and spirituality is to help ordinary people live a life of happiness, fulfillment and tranquility. Every day yo...

• Career Selection

  Posted on Friday April 27th, 2007 at 00:35 in art of living, aundh, author, Career, Creative, ethics, guide, happiness, indian, interests, joy, karve

  CAREER SELECTION  By  VIKRAM KARVE      One of the greatest misfortunes in life is to be good at something you don't like. You may be proficient in mathematics, but you may hate it. You may be co...

• Traveling in Pune

  Posted on Wednesday April 18th, 2007 at 23:44 in art of living, aundh, author, guide, indian, karve, Leisure, literature, memoir, mumbai, musing, oxymoron

  TRAVELLING IN PUNE byVIKRAM KARVE      The best way to travel in Pune is to go nowhere. Just sit at home, watch the travel channel on cable TV, travel in your mind's eye and enjoy yourself vicariou...

• Managerial Ethics - Ethical Fitness by Vikram Karve

  Posted on Wednesday March 28th, 2007 at 06:17 in art of living, aundh, Career, ethics, happiness, indian, musing, oxymoron, philosophy, poona, pune, story

   [An insightful model to look at various stages of moral development, ethical fitness for job roles and ethical issues faced in work situations] When recruiting new people, or promoting/appo...

• DO YOU WANT TO QUIT DRINKING?

  Posted on Monday March 19th, 2007 at 03:52 in addiction, alcoholism, art of living, aundh, Creative, desires, drinking, force field, force field analysis, guide, happiness, indian

      DO YOU WANT TO QUIT DRINKING?  TRY FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS.  By  VIKRAM KARVE        Many years ago, at work, I used to employ a Management Technique called Force Field Analysis in Project ...

• DOUBLE GAME

  Posted on Tuesday March 13th, 2007 at 03:17 in aundh, Creative, fiction, food for thought, happiness, indian, karve, marriage, mumbai, musing, poona, pune

  DOUBLE GAME [short story]  by  VIKRAM KARVE               Failures and Losers avoid school reunions.  But this time I decided to go.  Sucheta would be there. She had rung up from New York.Â...

• The Early Life of Sherry Karve

  Posted on Thursday March 8th, 2007 at 00:12 in art of eating, art of living, aundh, biography, Creative, doberman, dog, eating, fiction, food for thought, happiness, hobby

  MY NAME IS SHERRY (Part 1) By VIKRAM KARVE     My name is Sherry. I am a naughty young girl, I'm over seven months old and I live with my family in a lovely spacious bungalow surrounded by plent...

• Shrewsbury Biscuit from Kayani Bakery Pune

  Posted on Monday February 26th, 2007 at 23:07 in critic, cuisine, eating, good food, guide, happiness, heritage, hobby, indian, joy, karve, Leisure

  SHREWSBURY BISCUIT FROM KAYANI BAKERY (My Favourite Midnight Treat) By VIKRAM KARVE It's almost midnight and I'm sitting in glorious solitude on my favourite sofa in the living room watching a film...

• Valentine's Day

  Posted on Tuesday February 13th, 2007 at 04:55 in aundh, Creative, fiction, happiness, indian, joy, karve, Leisure, lovedale, marriage, memoir, musing

  VALENTINE'S DAY (a fiction short story) By VIKRAM KARVE   (This happened quite a few years ago. So I can tell it to you now! And I will write here exactly as I jotted it down soon after it happened)...

• Musings

  Posted on Tuesday February 13th, 2007 at 04:19 in art of living, Creative, food for thought, happiness, joy, karve, Leisure, memoir, mumbai, musing, poona, pune

  MUSINGS BY VIKRAM KARVE ON THE ART OF LIVING My name is Vikram Karve. I'm 50 and live in Pune, India. I love reading, writing and blogging and have a philosophical attitude towards life. Here are a fe...

• FLASH FICTION by VIKRAM KARVE

  Posted on Friday February 9th, 2007 at 01:26 in Creative, fiction, flash, flash fiction, food for thought, happiness, indian, joy, karve, Leisure, marriage, musing

  FLASH FICTION By VIKRAM KARVE She was tired, sleepy, and wanted him to stop, but he continued going on and on. He too was worn-out, nearly on the verge of losing it, but he was making excruciating eff...

• A CLEAN WELL LIGHTED PLACE

  Posted on Monday February 5th, 2007 at 02:28 in art of eating, Creative, cuisine, eating, good food, guide, hobby, indian, karve, Leisure, memoir, mumbai

  Kheema Pav, Bun Maska and Chai at Churchgate by VIKRAM KARVE When I used to live in Empress Court, opposite the Oval, near Churchgate, I would rise at dawn, as the clock on Rajabai Tower struck Six, a...

• LOVEDALE

  Posted on Tuesday January 30th, 2007 at 23:50 in Creative, fiction, indian, karve, marriage, mumbai, musing, poona, pune, railway, short story, 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 Qu...

• Fast Food

  Posted on Monday January 29th, 2007 at 05:14 in art of eating, cuisine, eating, good food, indian, karve, Leisure, memoir, musing, poona, pune, tourism

  MY FAVORITE FAST FOOD By VIKRAM KARVE My wife observes and indulges in (and consequently subjects me to) all types of fasts. She fasts on Mondays, Chaturthies and any occasion she wants to fast. Actua...

• House Hunt

  Posted on Thursday January 25th, 2007 at 04:33 in architecture, art of living, aundh, book, building, Career, colaba, Creative, critic, cuisine, desires, food for thought

  House Hunt By Vikram Karve I'm hunting for a house I'm hunting for a house House Hunting, House Hunting For a retirement home To spend the rest of my life In peace and tranquility In Pune I love to re...

• Gulab Jamun

  Posted on Thursday January 25th, 2007 at 00:48 in art of eating, art of living, aundh, colaba, Creative, cuisine, desires, eating, food for thought, food health related, good food, happiness

  THE ART OF EATING A GULAB JAMUN by VIKRAM KARVE The art of eating comprises three cardinal steps : First you learn or come to know about good food ' you hear from someone, read somewhere, or come acr...

• A Teaching Story

  Posted on Thursday January 11th, 2007 at 04:39 in art of living, food for thought, indian, karve, musing, values, vikram, vikram karve

  A Teaching Story By Vikram Karve A wise man seeking enlightenment, renounced worldly life, took a strict vow of celibacy which was a sine qua non for attaining enlightenment and headed for the hills...