Benign Flame: Saga of Love

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As Roopa’s father couldn't help her become a doctor, she marries Sathyam. Hoping that he would help her cause he fails her, feeling used by him. She insensibly seeks lesbian solace in her friend Sandhya’s embrace. Later, losing her heart to Raja Rao, Sandhya’s husband, she finds herself in a dilemma of love, even as Sathyam’s friend Prasad woos her to distraction. Unfolding the compelling saga of Roopa’s love and loss, governed by the vicissitudes of life, this 'novel' endeavors to nuance man-woman chemistry on one hand, and portrays woman-woman empathy on the other. Who said the novel is dead? 'Benign Flame' raises the bar.

BS Murthy

BS Murthy is 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 published in The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal Vol Issue Summer Born on Aug and schooled in letter-writing by he started articulating his managerial ideas in thirty-odd published articles However in Oct he began penning Benign Flame Saga of Love with the novel art' and continued his fictional endeavors in plot and character driven novels Jewel-less Crown Saga of Life and Crossing the Mirage Passing through youth Then entering the arena of non-fiction with a novel narrative in Puppets of Faith Theory of Communal Strife possibly a new genre he ventured into the zone of translations for versifying the Sanskrit epics Vyasa's Bhagvad-Gita Treatise of self-help and Valmiki s Sundara K nda Hanuman's Odyssey in contemporary English idiom Later ascending Onto the Stage with Slight Souls and other stage and radio plays he returned to fictional form with Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel and Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel to finally reach the short story horizon with Stories Varied - A Book of Short Stories In the end as a prodigal son he returned to his mother tongue Telugu to craft the short story Missteps only to push his pen towards the novella Of No Avail Web of Wedlock While his fiction had emanated from his conviction that for it to impact readers it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and alien caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas all his body of work was borne out of his passion for writing matched only by his love for language which

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