Glaring Shadow - A stream of consciousness
by BS Murthy
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Glaring Shadow in a stream of consciousness mode is the
self-account of the life and times of a man, who liquidates his immense wealth
only to consign it to the flames. The agony and ecstasy of his life as he makes
it big in our materialistic world and the way he loses his soul in the bargain,
only to regain it when tragedy strikes him makes one ponder over the meaning of
success in life.
"He had the soul of our times, and is the namesake
of many. He tamed success by the scruff of its neck, only to fuel envy in our
neighborhood. When it seemed there was no stopping him, fate dealt him a deadly
blow in his early sixties. Besides losing his wife, son and daughter-in-law
with their children in that fatal road mishap, he found his leg mangled in the
debris of their Ferrari. The intensity of the pity all felt for him seemed to
match the magnitude of his loss, but as he became a recluse, his thought eluded
all, and in due course, his tragedy became a thing of the past. But, in time,
his intriguing behavior brought him back to the top of the page three in the
local media - why he had disposed off his lucrative real estate for a song that
left the realtors in the lurch. And as if to create a newsflash in the business
world, he had off-loaded his considerable stockholding, which sent the bulls
running for cover in the country's bourses. Soon, even as the scrip was
crunching in the bear hug, the closure of his umpteen bank accounts earned him
the national headlines, as it heralded a first rate liquidity crisis in the
country's banking system. But even in that gloomy setting, it cost me a fortune
to acquire palatial bungalow the outhouse of which he had retained.
When I called on him for chitchat that morning, I was
shocked to see him shredding mounds of money lying beside him.....
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