Blossom in the Blaze (Hardcover)  | Released: 1993

Is there possibility to bring about deep and abiding transformation in human psyche? Shyamsunder, an orthodox man believing in traditions, conventions and superstitions accidentally faces a trauma in relationship with his wife, discards 'self like a snake, emerges a new man with sensitivity and capacity to face life and do the right thing. Satya suffers ill-treatment from a brutal father, runs away from home, has his own career, marries and has a family of four children. Suddenly he realises that he is alone, his wife and children do not belong to him, runs again, remarries and has a life of his own. He is not the product of cramming-oriented education to get destroyed. Anuradha who lives with her immoral mother is not destroyed. She comes out of the blaze with renewed strength, marries a rich man only to be widowed, inherits vast wealth, manages tactfully; yet she has a problem; perpetuation of the family clan, a successor to to the vast wealth! Savitha discovers that she has been wilfully deceived by Anil, treasures her illegitimate child, brings him up in an orphanage, seduces Shyam-sunder, a man then of sixty and finally after much suffering reunites with her lover. The book also traces the identity crisis in modern life, views it favourably as a progressive trend towards shaping a new dynamic society.