Crossing the Mirage - Passing through Youth
BS Murthy
(Revised edition)
ISBN 81-901911-8-7
Copyright © 2005 BS Murthy
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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
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
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)
Signposts to Cross
Chapter 1 - Shackles on Psyche
Chapter 2 - End of the Tether
Chapter 3 - Burden of Freedom
Chapter 4 - Onto the Turf
Chapter 5 - Respite by Death
Chapter 6 - Lessons of Life
Chapter 7- Naivety of Love
Chapter 8 - Dilemma of Disclosure
Chapter 9 - Perils of Youth
Chapter 10 - Absurd Proposal
Chapter 11 - Crossing the Mirage
Chapter 12 - Setting the Pace
Chapter 13 - Oasis of Bliss
Chapter 14 - Busy bees in Honeycomb
Chapter 15 -Twist in the Tale
Chapter 16 - Love in the Bind
Chapter 17 -Turn for the Worse
Chapter 18- Shadows to the Fore
Chapter 19 - Spurring on to Err
Chapter 20- Tempting the Fate
Chapter 21 - Stooping to Conquer
Chapter 22 - Fouling the Soul
Chapter 23 - Poetic Justice
Chapter 24 - Agony of Penitence
Chapter 25 - Embrace of Love
Chapter 26 - Life of a Kind
Chapter 27 - Just deserts
Dedicated to Kanna,
whom I could help in crossing
the mirage of her mind.
Shackles on Psyche
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.

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Crossing the Mirage - Passing Through Youth
General FictionIf passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road. As life brings Cha...