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Bhimeswara Challa

<p>Bhimeswara Challa, better known as CB Rau, is an Indian novelist and scholarly non-fiction writer.</p><p>In his early twenties, influenced by Sarat <em>sahityam</em>, he shaped two surrealistic Telugu novels &#8211; &#3093;&#3149;&#3127;&#3074;&#3108;&#3125;&#3149;&#3119;&#3137;&#3122;&#3137; <em>Kshantavyulu</em> (Pardonable) and &#3077;&#3114;&#3149;&#3120;&#3134;&#3126;&#3149;&#3119;&#3137;&#3122;&#3137; <em>Apr&#257;syulu </em>(Ostracized)<em> </em>&#8211; both bringing out, through their complex characters,&#160; the often colliding raw passions and naked&#160; urges innate to the human condition. However, his career, stretching over forty years and much globetrotting - first in the Indian Administrative Service and later in the United Nations - had cut short his potential novelistic pursuits. Nevertheless, all along he wrote numerous critical articles to international journals of repute on varied subjects of import.</p><p>After he had hung up his career boots, he picked up his literary pen to compose and craft the highly acclaimed scholarly non-fiction book - <em>Man&#8217;s Fate and God&#8217;s Choice (An Agenda for Human Transformation) - </em>which won the U.S. Review of Books Golden Seal of Excellence Award - followed by the magnum opus, <em>The War Within - Between Good and Evil (Reconstructing Money, Morality and Mortality).&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </em></p><p>Bhimeswara <em>(b14 July 1935) </em>currently resides in Hyderabad, India, with his artist spouse, Nirmala.</p><p><em>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </em></p>