BS Murthy

     Preeti Venugopala's April 26, 2020   'Book Spotlight on 10 literary works by BS Murthy https://www.preethivenugopala.com/2020/04/book-spotlight-on-10-literary-works-by.html Book links of 12 ebooks (two later additions) in this Blog.    Fiction Benign Flame: Saga of Love https://bulususmurthy.blogspot.com/2020/10/benign-flame-saga-of-love.html?zx=b698824af7148f11 Crossing the Mirage: Passing through youth https://bulususmurthy.blogspot.com/2020/10/crossing-mirage-passing-through-youth.html Jewel -less Crown: Saga of Life  https://bulususmurthy.blogspot.com/2020/10/jewel-less-crown-saga-of-life.html ( Above three are plot and character driven novels) Glaring Shadow: A stream of consciousness novel https://bulususmurthy.blogspot.com/2020/10/glaring-shadow-stream-of-consciousness.html Prey on the Prowl:  A Crime Novel  https://bulususmurthy.blogspot.com/2021/02/prey-on-theprowl-crime-novel-bs-murthy.html Stories Varied: A Book of...

‘We the People’ Then ‘n Now - A Case for Constitutional Changes Being in the seventy-fifth year of our republic, it is imperative that WE THE PEOPLE OF INDIA must evaluate THOSE PEOPLE OF INDIA, who had adopted our constitution. But to put things into perspective, who ‘We’ are need to be ascertained for the constitution, instead of forging India into an unified nation, turned it into a conglomeration of disparate entities, though by then, Gurajada had famously stated that ‘it’s not the soil but its people that make a country’ ( desamante mattikadoi, desamante manushuloi ). So, given that the Hindu majority is ‘the other’ for the Muslim minority, the raison d'être for India’s partition on the Islamic lines and as the evangelists are ever engaged in harvesting the  ‘heathen’ Hindu souls for their Christian salvation, effectually in the Indian socio-political context, ‘We’ are the Hindus, then as well as now. When Mohandas Gandhi took the satyagraha path to free India from the...

             On Attitude to Money     While a conflict of interest, be it in life or in fiction, can bring about self-introspection, strange though it may seem, a casual encounter could lead to self-discovery. So it happened with me in the wake of my rebuff to a dogged tempter, “money is not my weakness” and his “what is your weakness” repartee; for the record, either I had been a straight purchase officer or a strict loss assessor, occupations amenable to monetary mischief. However, the idea of this article is not to gloat over my uprightness but to present the genesis of my attitude to money and the vicissitudes of my life as a subject matter for possible research. But the caveat is that much of my growing up that shaped the same was in the times when the social pulls and the peer pressures, not to speak of the student stress, weren’t, as they have come to become of late, as emotionally unsettling. It was primarily because, as compared to...