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Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays

Onto the Stage – Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays

BS Murthy BS Murthy

This is a compendium of the author’s Indian stage and radio plays:Slighted Souls is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed resistance engulfing an young couple. Men at work on Women at work is a tragic-comic episode depicting the fallout of sexual harassment at the workplace in the Indian urban setting with its traditional cultural underpinnings. Castle of Despair, built on the slippery ground of man's innate urge for ...
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Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel

Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel

BS Murthy BS Murthy

In a stream of consciousness mode, this is the self-account of the life and times of a man, who liquidates his immense wealth only to consign it to the  flames. The agony and ecstasy of his life as he makes it big in our materialistic world and the way he loses his soul in the bargain, only to regain it when tragedy strikes him makes one ponder over the meaning of success in  This philosophical ‘novel of a memoir’ is a compelling read that is conducive to contemplate the nature and scope of human relationships begins thus:"He had the soul of our times, and is the namesake of many. He tamed success by the scruff of its neck, only to fuel envy in our neighborhood. When it seemed ...
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