Comments on: Suchitra Krishnamurthy Blog http://b4tea.com/entertainment/suchitra-krishnamurthy-blog/ B4Tea is the a vibrant blog publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web, reviewing new Web sites and services and offering new technology gadgets and healthy tips. Wed, 24 Aug 2011 07:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: BS Murthy http://b4tea.com/entertainment/suchitra-krishnamurthy-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-833 BS Murthy Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:00:43 +0000 http://b4tea.com/?p=2023#comment-833 Dear Ms. Suchitra Krishnamoorthi: Watching your ‘What’s on my bookshelf’ video, I was wondering how to interest you in my published Benign Flame. Later when I watched the book launch of The Summer Cool I was tempted to ask for copy from you. Hope, my hopes won’t be liars on both the counts if you mail me for a complimentary copy of my Benign Flame whose blurb reads thus: “As her father was constrained to help her in becoming a doctor, Roopa opts to marry, envisioning her man serving her cause. But as Sathyam, her husband, fails to go with her idea, she becomes apathetic towards him, and insensibly sinks into her friend Sandhya’s embrace, for lesbian solace. In time, at Sandhya’s wedding, she loses her heart to Raja Rao, the groom, and that throws her into a dilemma. Unfolding the saga of Roopa’s life and times in the complex Indian society, this literary novel, nuances man-woman chemistry on one hand, and on the other, portrays woman-woman empathy. Who said the novel is dead; ‘Benign Flame’ raises the bar. The author has convinced the readers that love is something far beyond marriage tie and fulfillment of love can be attained without marriage bondage. The author has achieved a minor revolution without any paraphernalia of revolution in the fourth part of the novel. - The Quest. The plot is quite effective and it’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs.” Spencer Critchley. The author makes free use of – not interior monologue as such, but – interior dialogue of the character with the self, almost resembling the dramatic monologue of Browning. Roopa, Sandhya, Raja Rao and Prasad to a considerable extent and Tara and Sathyam to a limited degree indulge in rationalization, trying to analyse their impulses and drives – The Journal of Indian Writing in English.” I am sure you would agree that for fiction to impact readers, it must be the soulful tale of a people steeped in their native soil, and not a hotch-potch of characters assembled in makeshift tents laid with cross cultural pegs. But as you might agree, sadly for the genuine Indian fiction, the mainstream publishers, to cater to the Western prejudices crassly promote the Indian stereotypical novel that either deprecates the Indian society or dabbles with the diasporic angst. You may like to savour the flavour of pure Indian fiction, without the ployish presence of of white men and women in our native soil to attract Western readers, in my Benign Flame, Jewel-less Crown and Crossing the Mirage, the tream of consciousness Glaring Shadow and a crime fiction Prey on the Prowl . Besides you may like to see what worth are my novel non-fiction, Puppets of Faith: theory of communal strife, and the translations in verse of Bhagvad -Gita: treatise of self-help (with the codification of 110 interpolations) and Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman’s Odyssey and stage plays Slighted Souls and Men at Work on Women at Work I hope to begin with you would like to read Benign Flame besides giving me an opportunity to read your The Summer of Cool. With warm regards, BS Murthy F-9, Nandini Mansion, 1-10-234, Ashok Nagar, Hyderabad – 500 020 Ph: 040 27611397, Mobile: 9246209733 Mail to – bsmurthy_48@yahoo.com Dear Ms. Suchitra Krishnamoorthi:
Watching your ‘What’s on my bookshelf’ video, I was wondering how to interest you in my published Benign Flame. Later when I watched the book launch of The Summer Cool I was tempted to ask for copy from you. Hope, my hopes won’t be liars on both the counts if you mail me for a complimentary copy of my Benign Flame whose blurb reads thus:

“As her father was constrained to help her in becoming a doctor, Roopa opts to marry, envisioning her man serving her cause. But as Sathyam, her husband, fails to go with her idea, she becomes apathetic towards him, and insensibly sinks into her friend Sandhya’s embrace, for lesbian solace. In time, at Sandhya’s wedding, she loses her heart to Raja Rao, the groom, and that throws her into a dilemma. Unfolding the saga of Roopa’s life and times in the complex Indian society, this literary novel, nuances man-woman chemistry on one hand, and on the other, portrays woman-woman empathy. Who said the novel is dead; ‘Benign Flame’ raises the bar.

The author has convinced the readers that love is something far beyond marriage tie and fulfillment of love can be attained without marriage bondage. The author has achieved a minor revolution without any paraphernalia of revolution in the fourth part of the novel.
- The Quest.

The plot is quite effective and it’s a refreshing surprise to discover that the story will not trace a fall into disaster for Roopa, given that many writers might have habitually followed that course with a wife who strays into extramarital affairs.” Spencer Critchley.

The author makes free use of – not interior monologue as such, but – interior dialogue of the character with the self, almost resembling the dramatic monologue of Browning. Roopa, Sandhya, Raja Rao and Prasad to a considerable extent and Tara and Sathyam to a limited degree indulge in rationalization, trying to analyse their impulses and drives – The Journal of Indian Writing in English.”
I am sure you would agree that for fiction to impact readers, it must be the soulful tale of a people steeped in their native soil, and not a hotch-potch of characters assembled in makeshift tents laid with cross cultural pegs. But as you might agree, sadly for the genuine Indian fiction, the mainstream publishers, to cater to the Western prejudices crassly promote the Indian stereotypical novel that either deprecates the Indian society or dabbles with the diasporic angst.
You may like to savour the flavour of pure Indian fiction, without the ployish presence of of white men and women in our native soil to attract Western readers, in my Benign Flame, Jewel-less Crown and Crossing the Mirage, the tream of consciousness Glaring Shadow and a crime fiction Prey on the Prowl . Besides you may like to see what worth are my novel non-fiction, Puppets of Faith: theory of communal strife, and the translations in verse of Bhagvad -Gita: treatise of self-help (with the codification of 110 interpolations) and Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman’s Odyssey and stage plays Slighted Souls and Men at Work on Women at Work
I hope to begin with you would like to read Benign Flame besides giving me an opportunity to read your The Summer of Cool.
With warm regards,
BS Murthy
F-9, Nandini Mansion,
1-10-234, Ashok Nagar,
Hyderabad – 500 020
Ph: 040 27611397,
Mobile: 9246209733
Mail to – bsmurthy_48@yahoo.com

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