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…
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! 😊
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…
I love writing passionately for the creative pleasure it brings. And no less passionately I love turning conscious of getting into the writing mode- it’s kind of witnessing the metamorphosis of my usual self into another self, the feel of which is just magical. Silence ringing even amidst din, solitude waxing even amidst bustle, vague sadness flaming into a brilliant…