Schooled in letter-writing, BS Murthy, born 27 Aug 1948,
graduated to articulate his managerial ideas in thirty-odd published articles
before penning fiction with the ‘novel art’. Beginning with Benign Flame, he fashioned two more ‘plot
and character’ driven novels, Jewel-less
Crown and Crossing the Mirage
before switching over to the narrative non-fiction with Puppets of Faith: theory of communal strife. After versifying the
Sanskrit epics, Vyasa’s Bhagvad-Gita (Treatise of self-help) and Valmiki’s
Sundara Kãnda (Hanuman’s Odyssey) into English (can be found in World Public
Library, Constitution Society, Boloji.com, Vedanta spiritual Library etc.) and shaping two stage
plays, Slighted Souls and Men at work on Women at work, he returned to
fiction with Glaring Shadow in the
stream of consciousness mode and Prey on
the Prowl, a crime novel. Back onto the stage, he wrote Castle of Despair
and a radio play A love on hold.
His ‘Addendum to
Evolution: Origins of the World by Eastern Speculative Philosophy’ was
published in The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal, Vol. 05
Issue 18.
BS, a graduate mechanical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, is a Hyderabad
based Insurance Surveyor and Loss Assessor since 1986. He is married, to a
housewife, with two sons, the elder one a PhD in Finance and the younger a
Master in Engineering.