Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
B. 27 Aug 1948, BS, is the author of Benign Flame: Saga of Love, Jewel-less Crown:: Saga of Life, Crossing the Mirage: Passing through youth (plot and character driven novels all), Glaring Shadow: A stream of consciousness novel, Prey on the Prowl: A Crime Novel and Onto the Stage: ‘Slighted Souls’ and other stage and radio plays.
His non-fiction works are Puppets of Faith: Theory of communal strife, Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help (in verses with contemporary idiom sans 110 interpolations) and Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman’s Odyssey, also in verse, all available as free e-books at a number of sites such as Project Gutenberg Self-publishing Press, Internet Archieve, ObookO, Smashwords, Free ebooks net, Freebookspot.
Besides articles on general management (The Hindu), materials management (Purchase) general insurance (The Insurance Times) and literary/social subjects (Triveni,) he contributed ‘Addendum to Evolution: Origins of the World by Eastern Speculative Philosophy’ to The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal, Vol. 05 Issue 18.
BS, a graduate mechanical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, also interests himself in current affairs, sports, etc. and has an ear for Carnatic and Hindustani classical music.
He is a Hyderabad based Surveyor and Loss Assessor since 1986 and is married, to a housewife, with two sons, the elder one a PhD in Finance and the younger a Master in Engineering.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
“Prey on the Prowl – A Crime Novel” is the last of my body of six fictional works – of five novels and a compendium of stage and radio plays – all borne out of my conviction that for fiction to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil and not the hotchpotch of local and foreign caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas that the so-called Indian Writing in English has come to symbolize.
What are you working on now?
After three character and plot driven novels, one stream of consciousness novel, a crime novel, three stage plays and a radio play, I have written six short stories and am going to write some more.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Before writing, read well and lead an examined life.
What are you reading now?
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Benign Flame: Saga of Love, Glaring Shadow – A stream of consciousness novel besides translations in verse of Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self-help and Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman’s Odyssey, that form body of my work.
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