Anupama Krishnakumar

Category: Fiction

The short story is my most favourite form of expression – one that I am very comfortable with. My interest in writing fiction was a rather accidental discovery way back in February 2005 when I wrote a small story on love for Valentine’s Day on my blog. It didn’t take me long to realise how much I enjoyed the process of working on plots, sketching characters and crafting stories. The possibilities that the realm of fiction offers are endless. Since then, I have gone with the flow and explored a multitude of themes, but predominantly people, relationships, love and life. I am a big fan of R.K. Narayan, so you are sure to find influences of his writing style including a focus on vivid detailing and simple language in my work. Presented here are short stories that I have written over the years.

Gitanjali

I can’t have enough of writing about love. Just how many possibilities exist! The more I write about love, the deeper I seem to go down this abyss called human heart. Gitanjali is a first-person narrative of a woman about a beautiful memory from her past which she can never erase from her soul.

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The Thing Called Love

There are a million ways to fall in love. But the most talked about and most described is love at first sight. My story is about romance set in Bombay. And when we talk of Bombay, you can’t be without talking about the local trains. The trains and the popular Churchgate station provide the perfect setting for a blooming romance.

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Food, Mom and I

This is Gayathri’s story or rather the story of how her mother is such a wonderful cook and how Gayathri, on the other hand, is more of a food lover than a good cook. Meet Gayathri, her mother and one of the important things that binds them – food.

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Anamika to Anamika

In notes to her fourteen-year-old self, thirty-year-old Anamika writes about the various shades of love that she has witnessed and the little lessons of life that she has learnt through the sixteen years. Anupama Krishnakumar tells you the story.

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Mothers and Daughters

This story will probably be my first step to writing a novel/novella. It remains the longest short story that I have ever written. There is a whole lot packed into this story – the relationship between mothers and daughters, a wife and her husband, Carnatic Music, human nature and realisation. It’s the story of Jhanavi, Leela and Vaidehi – women belonging to three different generations.

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Jasmine Memories

The tradition of arranged marriage is quite an old one in India. It’s a practice that raises many eyebrows these days but I do believe that magic can be found in an arranged marriage. The story of Vasundara and Sankaran was written to put forth this point of view. Vasundara is one of my favourite creations and she epitomises the balance between respect for traditional values and a rare and beautiful kind of courage in a woman. This is Vasu’s story.

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Meenakshi

Time and again, we hear stories of how children are forced into prostitution by people close to them for the sake of money. The thought of a child being abandoned in a strange, cruel and unsafe environment and forced to live under despicable circumstances sends a chill down my spine every time. Meenakshi is the tale of a girl who grows up to be a woman that men come to for various reasons.

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