TxtTale Interview - BS Murthy

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Can you share your journey with us? How did you get started in your field?

Maybe it’s apt to sum up my literary journey with an exclamation - Who would have thought that life held such literary possibilities in the English language for a rustic Telugu lad reared in the rural Andhra, even in the post-colonial India? So, the possibilities of life are indeed novel and seemingly my life has crystallized itself in my body of work before death could dissipate it – excerpted from my article “My ‘Novel’ Account of Human Possibility” that’s available in TxtTale besides other sites.

Do you identify with your main character or did you create a character that is your opposite?

It so happened that in Benign Flame: Saga of Love while Raja Rao insensibly imbibed my characteristics, said to be the case in most maiden novels, inadvertently though Prasad, the villain of the piece, came to juxtapose my sensibilities, or is it really so for many of its male readers have felt that there's a Prasad in every one of us.

Are any of the characters in your book based on people in your real life?

What is said about the novel – an exploration of human condition – has characterized my fictional forays into the short story plane and the dramatic stage too, besides the novel space that is, which tended to be led by the experiences of mine own life besides that of those I knew or heard about

Did you have any say in the cover design?

I believe that my books are fortunate for the artful covers bestowed on them by E. Rohini Kumar, Gopi and Mohan, all artists of note, to make them seem apart, if you agree.

What do you consider to be your greatest accomplishment so far?

I’ve come see my life and work, literary as well as mundane, through the lens of contribution rather than the prism of accomplishment, maybe for I’ve nothing demonstrable to write home about on the latter count.