The Web-launch of Mukul Kumar’s poetry collection ‘Catharsis’ by eminent poets Sukrita Paul Kumar & Subodh Sarkar on 2nd August, 2020, Sunday at 6:30 pm Moderated by Payel Roy Chowdhury
Sharing an excerpt of the video of my session in Chandigarh Literature Festival held in November, 2019. The theme of the session was ‘passion’, which commands a very decorated space in my sensibility, holds a special significance in my life; talking about passion is particularly pleasurable for me for as I talk I feel getting buoyed up with a benevolent…
The moments of pleasure and pride! 😌Honoured with the Bharat Nirman Award today! Got to talk about poetry and recite a couple of my latest poems; loving to be able to nurture the poet and novelist in me at once!. So soulful is the happiness from contributing to literature and ultimately society, for literature is the truest mirror of society!! Express…
Privileged to have been invited to engage a session for the creative writing workshop held in Ram Lal Anand college of Delhi university. The time spent was imbued with a sense of service to literature and the youth. It was an enthralling experience, talking about creativity and passion😊
This evening honoured with the ‘Poorvanchal Gaurav Samman’ by the Non Resident Federation, Noida (Pravasi Mahasangh) for the outstanding contribution to Indian Railways and Literature at once !! 🙏 Reminded of 2006-07 when I was honoured with the National Award for outstanding Service to Railways! 😊
Mukul Kumar, a senior bureaucrat, presently working in the Ministry of Railways in New Delhi; a 1997 batch officer of the IRTS (Indian Railway Traffic Service) , and is the author of the fictions titled “As Boys Become Men” published by RUPA Publications in March 2016, which marked his debut as a novelist, and ‘Seduction By Truth’, published by…
Kishore Kumar’s Birthday today has catapulted me into a different experience which transcends ‘music’ to soar into ‘Life’. Art anyway is an eternal source of pleasure, celebrating beauty in its pristine form, free from the burden of truth and morality. The admiration for art can’t be reasoned out – why you love what you love.The domain of Art&Aesthetics is not…
These days, I am not writing, but reading, and only reading. The ongoing read is ‘The picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde. Got struck with the sentence ‘Youth! Youth!There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth’; the context reverberates with the overtones of Hedonism which professes that pleasure is the only principle in life. It halted my…
Pretty often ‘Lodhi’ figures in my posts. It’s not just because it’s my favourite evening haunt, affording the refuge from the humdrum and the hubbub. It’s much more. At this juncture of my life , It’s the loyalest companion I have. The moment I enter, I experience my loneliness metamorphosing into solitude, and sense into sensibility. Deeper in, it offers…