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Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth - Novels
by BS Murthy
in
English Women Focused
Youth is the mirror that tends us to the reality of our looks. The reflections of our visages that insensibly get implanted in our subconscious lend shape to our psyche to define the course of our life.
This is the saga of Chandra’s chequered life that mirrors this phenomenon in myriad ways.
As perceived by the deprived, he had a fortunate birth. Yadagiri, his father, was the prominent pearl merchant in Hyderabad - Deccan, the seat of the Nizam’s power in undivided India. The patronage of the royals and the nobles alike, helped add gloss to his pearls making him the nawab of the trade. Besides, Princely Pearls, his outlet near the Charminar, was a draw with the rich, out to humor their wives and adorn the mistresses.
When Anasuya, Yadagir's wife, was expecting her second issue, trouble brewed in Telangana, the heart of the Nizam’s province. While his subjects' surge to free themselves from his yoke clashed with the Nizam’s urge to keep his gaddi, Sardar Patel's plans for a pan India was at odds with his designs to retain the Deccan belt as his princely pelf.
Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth BS Murthy (Revised edition) ISBN 81-901911-8-7 Copyright © 2005 BS Murthy Cover design by GDC creative advertising (p) ltd., Hyderabad –500 080 Self Imprint F-9, Nandini Mansion, 1-10-234, Ashok ...Read MoreHyderabad – 500 020 Other books by BS Murthy - Benign Flame: Saga of Love Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness novel Prey on the Prowl – A Crime Novel Stories Varied - A Book of short Stories Onto the Stage – slighted Souls and other stage and radio plays Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal
Chapter 2 End of the Tether When Chandra had graduated in commerce, Yadagiri wanted him to join him at the Princely Pearls. Though Chandra knew it was coming, yet he felt like it was a bolt from ...Read Moreblue. Having come to mirror his misfortunes in his father’s visage, the prospect of the paternal proximity in perpetuity sickened him. ‘But how can I possibly object to something that’s obvious, natural even!’ thought Chandra, and the more he thought about it, all the more he wanted to avoid being drafted into the family business. ‘Come what may, I won’t have
Chapter 3 Burden of Freedom Aboard the Bombay Express, Chandra was impatient for the train to move out of Nampally Station. Sitting by the window, he downed the shutter to escape attention of the passers-by. Doubling his ...Read Moreto avoid detection, he covered his flanks as well with the centre spread of the day’s Deccan Chronicle. Thus, in his quarantine, he failed to notice the arrival into the compartment of a bulky youth with a big suitcase. Panting for a while, the stranger surveyed the scene within, as one would, to gain a vantage seat. Zeroing on the space
Chapter 4 Onto the Turf As if to afford Chandra time for reflection at the threshold, the train was held up at Kalyan for long. And to his irritation, Ashok found out it was owing to some ...Read Moresnag. Thus, the train could reach Dadar only towards the evening. By then, Chandra was physically fatigued and mentally worn out. When the cab they hired halted in a by-lane in Sion, the weary friends uttered a sigh of relief. But as luck would have it, as they went up to Rashid’s room, a Godrej padlock greeted them. Nevertheless, Ashok thought
Chapter 5 Respite by Death That mid-summer noon, cramped up in a general bogie of that Deccan-bound train, Chandra developed a cold sweat. ‘Oh God, what if Rashid’s lightning call didn’t come through?’ he thought anxiously. ...Read Morewhat else could’ve I done, as there was hardly any time left to catch the train. How I wanted to talk to her myself though Rashid felt it made sense for me to leave without losing time. Didn’t he swear that he would alert my parents to avert the disaster? How am I to know now what came of it later?’ As