BS Murthy

            BS Murthy's 'Smart Books' The excerpt of my Author Interview at Smart Books https://smartbooksbuzz.com/interviews/bs-murthys-smart-books How did you become an author and get published? Share your experience. Generally speaking, while the author aura or writer fame push some into the writing arena, the urge to write pull others into it but as detailed in “My ‘Novel’ Account of Human Possibility” that is Googleable, it was altogether a different course for me, beginning with: “Whenever I look at my body of work of twelve books, the underlying human possibility intrigues me no end, and why not. I was born into a land-owning family in a remote village of Andhra Pradesh in India that is after the British had folded their colonial tents from there, but much before the rural education mechanism was geared up. It was thus the circumstances of my birth enabled me to escape from the tiresome chores of the primary schooling till I had a nine-year fill of a...

    To Be The Land Of A Thousand Classics  Originally published in Triveni, July-Sep 1999    The universal success of The God of Small Things and the exuberant outburst of Salman Rushdie on ‘regional’ Indian writing call for a dispassionate approach to the genesis of Indo-English writing, nay, all Indian writing. Let us first propitiate the ‘ God of Small Things’ before we turn our attention to the ‘ Satan of Verses’ As Arundhati Roy’s success is of historical magnitude, it would be in order to follow the Gibbonian track to seek its causes. To this enquiry an obvious but satisfactory answer may be returned|: that it was owing to the newness of ‘The God o Small things’, exemplifies by the peculiar and pixilated use of the language to weave a sensuous story in a sinusoidal fashion, and the magical power of the narration, repetitions notwithstanding, that enthralls the reader throughout. But as truth and reason seldom find so favorable a reception in the world...

  BS Murthy's Lit Linc Author Interview https://litlinc.com/interviews/bs-murthys-lit-link-author-interview  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? I had a slightly different experience in that after I completed my maiden novel,  Benign Flame: Saga of Love , the idea of  Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth,  also a love story cropped up in my mind. However, so as to avoid the possible carry over effect on my muse, I worked with  Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life  before I set out to cross the mirage. What are some books or authors that you would recommend to our readers? I urge readers to read the classics of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Turgenev, Emily Zola, Gustav Flaubert, Marcel Proust and Robert Musil to name a few literary giants that is apart from 'yours l...

  Inside the Mind - BS Murthy (Excerpt of the Author Interview in 'Find Books & Authors' https://findbooksandauthors.com/interview/inside-the-mind-bs-murthy )  What inspired you to start writing? So to say, my tryst with writing began with letter-writing to express my youthful feelings in private spheres. Later, it was my urge to articulate my professional ideas that led me into the arena of articles. However, in time, I happened to enter into the ‘novel’ field to examine the human condition, as Jane Austin put it, in a fictional mirror. All this I’ve pictured it in my memoir of an article, My ‘Novel’ Account of Human Possibility, that is Googleable  https://share.google/87mnyS5oFnEuTo8OS Can you tell us a little about your maiden novel? Some way into Benign Flame: Saga of Love, having been convinced that I’ve something unique to offer to the literary world through the same, I did not want to die till its completion. In the end, what Spencer Critchley, a Literary Crit...