A BLIND NEEDLE

From a chess game fraught with emotional intrigue and peril, to the tale of a man who was given Buddha s eyes and learned to see the world differently with a highly romantic finale taking place in a far-away galaxy on the backdrop of the anniversary of the Titanic disaster, after exactly one thousand years in the future, A Blind Needle leads the reader through a maze of breath-taking stories and themes. Irreverent and curious, Kulkarni s short stories explore society s beliefs and actions, mixing fantasy, fable and ideals to create various views and tones of voice with which to discuss questions as to why and how humanity governs itself._,