Of No Avail: Web of Wedlock
By BS Murthy
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Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage Bureau.
Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter.
What brought about Priya's change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame's fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this eclectic novella.
BS Murthy
BS Murthy is an Indian novelist, playwright, short story, non-fiction 'n articles writer, translator, a 'little' thinker and a budding philosopher in ‘Addendum to Evolution: Origins of the World by Eastern Speculative Philosophy’ that was originally published in The Examined Life On-Line Philosophy Journal, Vol. 05 Issue 18, Summer 2004. BS’s body of work of ten ebooks, in varied genres, comprises 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, 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), a novel non-fiction, possibly a new genre, Bhagvad-Gita : Treatise of self-help and Sundara Kãnda: Hanuman’s Odyssey, trans-creations in verses in contemporary English idiom. However, his only contribution in Telugu, his mother tongue, is his short story తప్పటడుగులు. While his fiction emanated from his conviction that for it to impact readers, it should be the soulful rendering of characters rooted in their native soil but not the hotchpotch of local and alien caricatures sketched on a hybrid canvas, all his body of work was borne out of his passion for writing, matched only by his love for English language. He, a graduate mechanical engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, is a Hyderabad-based Insurance Surveyor and Loss Assessor since 1986.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What a convoluted style of writing! The first 5 pages only has questions and more questions - without any preamble to what's going on. We do deduce that they are meeting again after 2 decades but no prologue that will give us am insight as to what transpired then ,that made them part their ways. I couldn't read more than 5 pages - i lost patience ?
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Of No Avail - BS Murthy
Of No Avail - Web of Wedlock
BS Murthy
Copyright@2021BS Murthy
Cover image by Gopi
image003F-9, Nandini Mansion,
1-10-234, Ashok Nagar,
Hyderabad – 500 020
Other books by BS Murthy –
Benign Flame: Saga of Love
Jewel-less Crown: Saga of Life
Crossing the Mirage – Passing through youth
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 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 verses)
Sundara Kãnda - Hanuman’s Odyssey (A translation in verses)
Contents
Chapter 1 – Surprises of Life
Chapter 2 – Flows of Fate
Chapter 3 – Wedlock in Deadlock
Chapter 4 – Furies of Falsity
Chapter 5 – Ordeals of Ambition
Chapter 6 – Falling in Line
Chapter 7 – Breaking the Barrier
Chapter 8 – Making the Thaw
Dedicated to –
the flawless Bullipapa, my distant cousin,
with whom I had savored the fruits of our platonic love
before she attained moksha at the young age of twenty-six.
Chapter 1 – Surprises of Life
ALL MARRIAGES ARE MADE IN HEAVEN BUT SOME ARE DELAYED ON EARTH:
WE ENDEAVOUR TO HASTEN THEM ALL.
So read the billing at Renuka Marriage Bureau.
Rushing to Venu, Priya reread the same.
‘Oh, how fortuitous!’ she thought excitedly as she walked up to her car. ‘So, I could wed him now. Going by his photograph, he looks handsomer than ever; if anything, that streak of grey hair only lends him an aura of its own! It’s as well that he doesn’t dye his hair as most dandies would, more so while seeking a bride. Isn’t it true to his character; being truthful to himself, and to others as well. So, he’s divorced, which means that he was married; what was his wife like; could he have wed on the rebound? How long would’ve their marriage lasted; what could’ve gone wrong with their wedlock? By the way, have the roughs and toughs of his marital life affected his amiable disposition? May not have been, given the softness of his visage in that picture; oh, how I was tempted to flick it from that folder! But why did my sense of decency tie my hands when fate itself played foul with me; didn’t it make me reject his hand out of hand?’
Having reached her car, and sitting still at the steering, she continued to take the clock back in time, ‘How I used to like him in those days, but fate made me blind to his marital charms. But now he’s nearing forty-four and I’m touching thirty-nine; so what, as age has seemingly spared us both its ravages of time to afford us a hectic time to make up for our lost time. Maybe that’s why he looks at his handsomest best and my allure too is at its peak; wont’ all those ogling eyes tell that? Now that his picture has brought my loss to the fore, nearly two decades after our parting of ways, is it that fate has come to repent its thoughtless act? But is it going to redress its wrong doing? If so, when he sees me now, won’t it induce romantic impulses in him replacing his bitter memories of our parting? And for all that, ours could be one such marriage made in heaven that got delayed on earth. Maybe his divorce portends that. But still, given his past hurt and my present proclivities, would he like to own me? Well, I would know that soon enough, won’t I? But come what may, I won’t lose him this time for I can’t bear his loss anymore.’
Having resolved thus, she started her car to steer it to her newfound destination. In time, as the address led her to a middle-class setting, parking her car by the roadside, she rushed to Venu’s first-floor flat only to hold herself at the threshold. Soon though, as the doorbell couldn’t clear the hurdle, seeing the irony of it all, she went back to the car to continue her