Ranjit Kulkarni

Writer of Short Stories, Articles and Novellas
Writer of Short Stories, Articles and Novellas

Ranjit Kulkarni is an author with a penchant for portraying characters from the real world and weaving stories around their apparently mundane lives. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Kulkarni spent his childhood in the environs of urban, middle-class India. As an adult, he spent over two decades as a corporate executive in technology and consulting; and his writing is inspired from his experiences from the real urban world of work and life. With his constant knack for observation and a deep-seated fondness of reflection, he loves crafting tales that entertain and provoke thought. When not writinRead More...


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Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

Behind every person and family living in an apartment, there are some things we know, and some things that remain unknown. It is these unknowns about people that form the basis of the stories in this collection.

Couples apparently happily married, children with behaviours that have explanations beneath the surface, senior citizens with their own stories, families with complications that go beyond individual, community or social backgrounds – each

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A Bend in the Road

Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

The stories in this collection are inspired by the people, the places and the experiences during a road trip. It contains tales of characters that might appear ordinary with uninteresting, simple existences, but the stories unveil the stories behind them. These stories set in real-life locations bring the reader face to face with these characters who have something to say, something to tell, something waiting to be discovered, something that might move the rea

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Potpourri

Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

Potpourri is a collection of short stories around a bunch of character sketches and their situations.

You will find everyday characters like the man who does the laundry and develops attachment to the household, an auto rickshaw driver who wants to give his best to his son, a sports teacher who is happy being in the background and a professor trying to instill interest in his class.

A small town detective, a junior artist from films and a gossi

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Give Me a Break

Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

A hilarious slice-of-life about greed, wealth, and one man’s search for some peace and quiet!

Desperate to get away from the city and take a much-needed break, Swami escapes to a quiet country farmhouse where he hopes he can relax in nature. But if only it was that easy! Swami, Jigneshbhai and his talkative Shridhar Mama soon stumble on much more than they bargained for.

Swami’s long-lost activist friend is on his own trip, l

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The Good, The Bad and The Silly

Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

The one thing that Jigneshbhai likes is a quiet life. But his restless friend Swami doesn't let him have much of it. It all starts with Swami’s undue worry about his health.

"My cholesterol has gone up. My triglycerides are also on the higher side, The sugar level is also not comfortable. I am on the edge of being prediabetic," Swami announced, and that was just the start. 

It turns out to be only the first step in a series of unexpe

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Kaleidoscope

Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

This book is the second edition of the collection earlier titled “Kaleidoscope: Short Stories of Many Hues”. This second edition is now named “Kaleidoscope: Stories about Grief and Loss”. Many stories from the older edition have been removed and replaced by newer stories that are more aligned with the theme of grief and loss.

This is a collection of stories about life, death, illness and an afterlife. It has stories about human

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Melange

Books by Ranjit Kulkarni

The mind of a human being is what differentiates us from other animals. It gives us the power of thinking, and the power of feeling. One would not be wrong to say that it is the mind that has made the human animal what it is today, both good and bad.

The mind of a human being is by its very nature restless. It can be both a friend and an enemy. It is this precise restlessness of the human mind that the stories in this collection explore.

What w

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