BS Murthy

  https://writezenith.com/interview/bs-... When you're working on a book and a new idea pops up, should you pursue it immediately (also known as 'UP syndrome') or finish your current project first? What do you think is the best course of action? As I tend to get absorbed in every work on hand, so my muse too stays focussed without letting my mind to waver. Which character do you enjoy writing the most as a writer and why? If choosing a favorite character is like choosing a favorite child, which character do you find requires the most attention and detail from you as a writer? I would like to answer the question by quoting Raja Rao, the hero of my maiden novel, Benign Flame: Saga of Love - “Characters of fiction are authors’ children and critics’ neighbors, even if we perceive them as inadequate, nevertheless, we should appreciate the fact that they are the products of someone’s imagination, however limited that might be. It’s not often that you come across a book from which...

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah got what he wanted for Indian Musalmans though in time, their Quranic zeal turned Pakistan into a Rogue State. What of India, the product of an irony of a partition in that while some Musalmans walked away with one-fourth of its land, others stayed back to nurse their separatist dogma in its truncated bosom? While the Hindu nationalists lamented about the loss of their ancient land, the Musalman intellectuals were alarmed at their reduced numbers vis-à-vis the Hindus. Even as the Golwalkars articulated the Hindu frustration in shrill tones, the Maulana Azads voiced the Muslim apprehensions in secular tunes. Whatever, as Pakistan became an Islamic State for the Musalmans , India remained a habitat of varied interest groups, the Musalmans included! While the Indian political classes were beset with a sense of loss that partition brought in in its wake, the Hindu intellectuals were upset by the age-old caste guilt that the reform movement occasioned in their...

Excerpt of BS Murthy's Apenbok interview  https://apenbok.com/authorinterviewpreview/248 When do you think someone should call themselves a writer? It's the feeling of having written something original that ensues in one the true sense of being a writer. How do you process and deal with negative book reviews? I've internalized Gita's take - "Pats ’n slights all in the score Treats as equal score My man Takes he in his stride his lot But won’t put the blame on Me" - Ch 12, v19 of Bhagvad-Gita, transcreated as Treatise of Self-help by me -  https://g.co/kgs/E1MZhS What is the most challenging part of your writing process? My novel writing has been the sailing of my muse in its flowing stream. But shaping my stage plays was challenging in that I had to contrive the run of the play so as to make the audience await the next scene, scene after scene till the very end. How long have you been writing, or when did you start? I could see in the hindsight that the seeds ...

My AuthoriView is excepted below  https://authoriview.com/InterviewsPre... Tell us a little about yourself and your background? I’m an Indian novelist, playwright, short story, non-fiction 'n articles writer, translator, a 'little' thinker and a budding philosopher in ‘Addendum to Evolution: Origins of the World by Eastern Speculative Philosophy’ that was originally published in The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal, Vol. 05 Issue 18, Summer 2004. Born on 27 Aug 1948, and having been schooled in letter-writing, in my mid thirties, I happened to articulate my managerial ideas in thirty-odd published articles, and later penned Benign Flame: Saga of Love, Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life, Crossing the Mirage: Passing through youth (plot and character driven novels), Glaring Shadow: A stream of consciousness novel, Prey on the Prowl: A Crime Novel, Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock, a novella, Stories Varied: A Book of Short Stories and Onto the Stage: Slighted Souls and other s...