Benign Flame: Saga of Love by BS Murthy (inspirational books for students TXT) 📕

Then guided by her innate instincts, she tried to reason her situation all over again.

‘Is it fair to expect the living to lead a life of gloom in the shadows of the dead? Doesn’t life impose its own compulsions on the living, regardless of the sentiment to the departed? But then, how can I ever reconcile my own craving for life with the memory of him? Well, by keeping his love alive in the Sathyam Memorial Clinic.’

As she began feeling easy with her line of thinking, on second thoughts she felt that she was being hypocritical but yet she resolved her position in the end,

‘Whatever it may be, after all, I’m a human and a woman at that, with all that goes with it. Well, let me live normally and lead life like a woman. That’s all, no more, and no less to it.’

While she sank into a reconciled sleep at that, all that night, her parents and the in-laws had a troubled time on her account.

The next day, after everyone had left, some upset by her conduct, and others apprehensive about her future, Sandhya and Raja Rao led Roopa to the assigned place of her destiny.

Leaving this narrative behind, in time, Roopa’s mourning would have ended, enabling her to begin a life of subdued bliss.

Publication Date: 01-27-2015

All Rights Reserved

Dedication:
The antics of the western men on the Indian stage or the lament of the Indian women in the western setting being the tenets of the celebrated Indian English novels, it appears that the Indian life per se is passé in the western dominated publishing world. What’s worse, the leitmotif of the published stuff remains the degradation of the Indians and their way of life; as if to appease the bigoted readers in the West, the time-tested way for the Man Booker Prize. However, for fiction to impact readers, it must be the soulful tale of a people steeped in their native soil, and not a hotchpotch of caricatures assembled in makeshift tents, laid with cross-cultural pegs - so Benign Flame is scripted to enable the open-minded everywhere to savor the ‘novel’ with a character mix, of Roopa, Sandhya, Tara, Raja Rao, Sathyam, Prasad and others, on the Indian stage, in a compelling story, with an impelling plot, in which, the paramour famously goads the deviant wife to love her husband too ...