Jewel-less Crown - Saga of Life
BS Murthy
ISBN 81-901911-6-0
copyright © 2004 BS Murthy
This improved E-book edition is of 2013
Cover design by GDC creative advertising (p) ltd., Hyderabad - 500 080
with the watercolor painting of Mr. Niranajn
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Other free ebooks by BS Murthy
Benign Flame: Saga of Love
Crossing the Mirage- Passing through youth
Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel
Prey on the Prowl - A Crime Novel
Of No Avail - Web of Wedlock (A Novella)
Stories Varied - A Book of Short Stories
Onto the stage - Slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays
Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife (A Critical Appraisal of Islamic Faith, Indian Polity 'n More)
Inane Interpolations in Bhagvad-Gita (An Invocation for their Revocation)
Bhagvad-Gita: Treatise of Self - help (A translation in verse)
Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman's Odyssey (A translation in verse)
Blurb of this book
It's perilous penning this blurb.
It's fine when man is modest about his work.
It even affords him the aura of an invisible crown!
But what about his work?
Were it an art or craft, it is there for all to see.
What of a literary work of an unheralded author?
Well, lauding the same might raise one's eyebrows.
Failing to praise wouldn't make a 'jewel-less crown' either!
Why not see, if this is the great Indian novel.
This is the story of the rise and fall of an ambitious man, the decline, and the decay of his conniving wife, the trials, and tribulations of their wayward son as well as the grit and gall of a spirited woman, who enters into his life.
This depiction of their life and times not only pictures the facets of ambition and achievement, intrigue and betrayal, compulsion and compromise, sleaze and scandal, trial and sentence, but also portrays the possibilities of repentance and resolution, love and empathy coupled with compassion and contribution, leading to the spirituality of materialism, and that makes it the saga of our times.
The story of a lifetime, truly.
Contents
Book One: Artha 'n Kama
Chapter1: Party Gone Sour
Chapter2: Trauma at Tihar
Chapter 3: Mind of the Maligned
Chapter 4: Twist at Tis-Hazari
Chapter 5: Trial in Camera
Chapter 6: Dilemma of Qualms
Chapter 7: Moment of Reckoning
Chapter 8: End within end
Chapter 9: Vestiges of Prestige
Chapter 10: High on Rebound
Chapter 11: Bellows of Delhi
Chapter 12: Dicing with Life
Chapter 13: Spidering Spadework
Chapter 14: Loss to Order
Chapter 15: Daring the Fate
Chapter 16: Victims of Deceit
Chapter 17: Baring the Soul
Chapter 18: Garland of Guilt
Book Two : Dharma 'n Moksha
Episode 1: Bliss of Being
Episode 2: Collage of Crime
Episode 3: Domain of the Devil
Episode 4: Renaissance of Life
Episode 5: Sprouts of Love
Episode 6: Despair of Hope
Episode 7: Turn at the Bend
Episode 8: Amity of Empathy
Episode 9: A Day to Remember
Episode 10: Spirituality of Materialism
Episode 11: Sense of Reincarnation
Epilogue
Dedicated to
VV Rao my soul mate, PN Murty the friendly cousin 'n KB Bhaskar,
my computer guru, for their support of my literary cause.