In Memoriam for Vaasamoorti Satyanarayana Murthy, 1925-2023
Vaasamoorti or Varanasi Satyanarayana Murty
Vaasamoorti, Varanasi Satyanarayana Murthy, has written ten novels, several short stories, general books and books for children, two of which were translated into other languages including Russian.
Vaasamoorti was born in a village on the banks of river Godavari. He had to discontinue his college studies due to a long crippling bone disease. After passing Hindi examinations he started his career as a Hindi teacher in a high school in Amalapuram, in Andhra Pradesh. Still later he appeared privately for Intermediate, BA in Economics, MA in English Language and Literature. In 1966, he joined the Department of English in S.K.B.R. college in Amalapuram, where he retired and continued to work on his books, novels and articles.
He started his literary career with an article in English, An Artificial Language in My india, a weekly from Bangaluru. His English works are Here and Beyond, a novel, The Language Revolution, dealing with the language situation in India, Marxism, Relevance and Practice, a critique of Marxism, Goodness and Good Manners and Thinking the Right Way.
He has wide-ranging interests. He started a film society and a science forum besides attending to his activities. He was associated with the consumer protection movement for some time and has been a keen lover of animals and the environment. He served as Editorial Assistant for an illustrated weekly for 11 years.
Latest Publication
The Age of Intelligence
The evolution of mankind can be traced back approximately 7 million years. In that time, mankind evolved intelligence and, in turn, intelligence propelled humanity to be the dominant species on earth.
In The Age of Intelligence, Professor Vaasamoorti explores the development of science as a discipline. He examines the importance of the Scientific Method, the important advancements it has facilitated, and explains in thorough detail why it should be applied to the economic, social and political spheres of life.
In addition to examining the Scientific Method’s systematic thinking principles, this book explores:
•Ordinary thinking.
•Common sense thinking.
•Scientific thinking.
•And thinking from a society standpoint.
Reading this book will help you understand the nature and societal implications of intelligence by understanding how and why it has evolved.
Ogre Turned Spectre
The writer, Vaasamoorti, like most young men, was in the beginning fascinated by the communist idea. Being a book lover, he went through some literature on the subject. He developed some doubts. He studied deep into the subject. Now he had more questions on the concept of communism itself, materialistic determinism, the bedrock of communism, Marxist use of the Dialectics, the theory of surplus value, the wide divergence between the theory and practice, and the mouthing of sham and hollow ideals etc. All these questions are placed before the reader along with the factual material that led to these questions for his own judgement.
The present work was actually the third part of a bigger book, The Age of Intelligence, on the role of intelligence as the main constituent of human progress. The third part was published earlier under the title, Marxism: Relevance and Practice. The present book is an enlarged version with more relevant material.