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😊
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…
‘My Inspiration to Write’. I believe writing is a matter of natural gift, and so is any other art form. I got inspired by the feeling that I am incomplete without writing; it was a compulsion, not a choice.Using John Keats’ metaphor writing comes as naturally to a writer as leaves to a tree . But yes, once you have…
I wished you all a happy celebration, laden with piety. Not long ago I shared with you how I am turning out to be an agnostic. Paradox? Why did I acknowledge the day then? Is the transformation yet not complete, and I am still oscillating between faith and doubt? Or is it the natural reflex of habit without any sincerity?…
Tejal dave 4.0 out of 5 stars Desire is a reality!! 24 October 2018 ” Knowing truth is a pleasure, but living it can be such a pain!” So true and deep!! Seduction by Truth by Mukul Kumar is a story of Shiva and women in his life. Shiva in his early forties; a Smart, handsome, successful, well settled man…
I grew up with the wish to be a writer someday. I can’t recollect when this wish was born; it just happened that often my emotions compelled me to put them to put them down on paper, and doing so made me strangely happy. Strangely because it felt so different from the other shades of happiness life brought. Strangely also…