PRAVEEN KUMAR

PRAVEEN KUMAR

About

Praveen Kumar, a bilingual poet, born in Mangaluru on June 29 of 1949 as the eldest son of Shree R.D.Suvarna and Smt. B.Sarojini, with his more than three decades of government service as a senior police officer and as a poet of twenty-four published collections and as an author of five volumes on matters of governance and administration is a familiar face in Indian intellectual circuits. His more than 30 contributions on governance and administration to prominent national dailies like The Hindu, The Indian Express, Deccan Herald and The Times of India and other periodicals and journals were extremely popular and often sensational by their innovative unorthodox thoughts.

Praveen Kumar graduated in Science from St. Aloysius College, Mangaluru, going on to obtain post-graduate degree in Literature from Mysuru University. He also holds post-graduate diploma in Business Management as well as Higher Diploma in Cooperative Management. In his student days he was a prize-winning orator and writer. He lives in Bengaluru with his son, Pratheek Praveen Kumar and wife, Jayashree Praveen Kumar. He is a familiar face in national seminars and TV networks in India as a Poet and thinker and some of his poems have figured in school text books.

His published works include Policing for the New Age, Policing the Police, Indian Police and Inside India in prose; and Unknown Horizons, Portraits of Passion, Simply Yours, Love & Pride, Shobha Priya, Golden Wonder and Celestial Glow in poetry. His published works in Kannada are Divya Belaku, Bhavana, Priya Chaitra Tapasvini, Ananya Priya Lavanya, Priya Geethegalu and Tapasvini. Stemming from his varied academic background are the lively far-reaching interests that have impelled him to write in subjects as divers as matters of public interest and poetry that struck a perfect balance between the pursuance of vocation and avocation.

BOOKS

A) Nonfiction

1) Policing For The New Age

2) Policing The Police

3) Inside India

4) Indian Police

5) Policing The Police

Second Edition

B) English Poems

1) Unknown Horizons

2) Portraits Of Passion

3) Love & Pride

4) Simply Yours

5) Shobha Priya

6) Golden Wonder

7) Celestial Glow

C) Kannada Poems

1) Divya Belaku

2) Bhavana

3) Priya Chaitra Tapasvini

4) Priya Geethegalu

5) Ananya Priya Lavanya

6) Tapasvini

D) Poem Collections

1) Poetic Sojourn (5 Volumes)

2) Recent Poems

3) Complete Work Of English Poems

4) Complete Work Of English Love Poems

5) Book Of Poems

6) Book Of Poems Part 2

7) Book Of Love Poems

E) Kannada Poem Ebooks

1) Poems Canarese

2) Love Poems Canarese

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

A) The Hindu

1) Indian Police At A Crossroads (6-6-1995)

2) Internal Security- Challenges And Approach (8-8-1995)

3) Indian Police: Time To Take Tough Decisions (19-9-1995)

4) What Ails Professional Policing In India? (2-1-1996)

5) Need To Liberate Law Enforcers From Unholy Alliances (2-4-1996)

6) Role Of Police In The Reconstruction Of India (18-6-1996)

7) Where Their Loyalties Lie… (27-8-1996)

8) Caught In The Vicious Circle Of Corruption (15-10-1996)

9) Police Structure Needs The Management Touch (31-12-1996)

10) Police & Human Rights – Does End Justify Means? (18-3-1997)

11) Restoring Credibility To Crime Investigation (24-6-1997)

12) What Ails The Indian Secret Police (9-9-1997)

13) Police Unprofessional (20-1-1998)

14) Law And Justice (23-6-1998)

15) Police Morale Eroded By Poor Administration (8-9-1998)

16) Time To Improve The Quality Of Civil Service (2-3-1999)

Quality Of Civil Service (19-3-1999) : Letter To The Editor

As Answer To Upsc Response In The Hindu Dated 16-3-1999.

B) The Indian Express (Editorial Page)

1) Quota System Can Weaken Civil Service (6-6-1995)

2) Empowering The Cbi (10-7-1997)

C) Deccan Herald (Sunday Supplementary)

1) Towards Sane Service (2-7-1995)

2) Lacking Vigour (6-7-1997)

3) Professional Pride Of The Police (28-9-1997)

4) Need To Revitalise The Police (23-11-1997)

5) For Good Governance (11-11-2001)

D) The Times Of India

1) The Gun Still Speaks (21-10-1995)

E) Alive (Focus)

1) Crime, Politics And Police (February 1996)

2) Criminalisation Of Police (January 1997)

3) The Indian Police: Maladies And Remedies (September 1998)

4) The Crumbling Steelframe Of India (November 1998)

5) Kashmir: The Core Issue Of Nationhood (February 2002)

F) IJCC

1) Investigation Of Dowry Death Cases (1996 – 3)

2) Indian Internal Security Buildup (1998 – 4)

 

TV APPEARANCES

A) Interviewed

1) Sanchaya (Bangalore Dd) On 8-6-1992

2) Sanchaya (Bangalore Dd) On 22-8-1994

3) Parichaya (Udaya Tv) On 16-3-2000

B) Presenting Poems

1) Sanchaya (Bangalore Dd) On 12-9-1989

2) Kavi Sammelana (Bangalore Dd) On 17-10-1990

 

PRESENTING PAPERS

A) National Seminars

1) The Centre For Policy Research, New Delhi On 20-3-2002

(Indian Political Reforms-Police Administration)

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<p style="margin:0px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>&quot;A somber, disturbing mystery fused with a scathing look at the fashion industry. </strong><strong>Mangin writes in a confident, razor-edged style.&quot;</strong><strong> - Kirkus Reviews</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>Condom dresses and space helmets have debuted on fashion runways.</strong></p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">A dead body becomes the trend when a coat made of human skin saunters down fashion's biggest stage. The body is identified as Annabelle Leigh, the teenager who famously disappeared over a decade ago from her boyfriend's New York City mansion.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">This new evidence casts suspicion back on the former boyfriend, Cecil LeClaire. Now a monk, he is forced to return to his dark and absurd childhood home to clear his name. He teams up with Ava Germaine, a renegade ex-model. And together, they investigate the depraved and lawless modeling industry behind Cecil's family fortune.</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 14px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">They find erotic canes, pet rats living in crystal castles, and dresses made of crushed butterfly wings. But Cecil finds more truth in the luxury goods than in the people themselves. Everyone he meets seems to be wearing a person-suit. Terrified of showing their true selves, the glitterati put on flamboyant public personas to make money and friends. Can Cecil find truth in a world built on lies?</p><p style="margin:-4px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;"><strong>In high fashion modeling, selling bodies is organized crime.</strong></p>

Story Behind The Book

INSIDE INDIA english essays on India by PRAVEEN KUMAR Published by PublishAmerica, USA ISBN: 978-1-60749-914-5 Printed in the United States of America in 2009

Reviews

<p><a style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"></a></p> <center><a style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);"><u><b>BOOK REVIEWS </b></u></a></center> <p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">A POLICE officer and a prolific writer, Praveen Kumar, has published </span><br /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">another anthology ……….in the form of this book.……… &quot;Policing the police&quot; </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">acquires more relevance today in the context of the criminalisation of </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">not just politics, but of the services as well……….Coming as a sequel to </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">his earlier book Policing for the New Age, the author chooses to </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">describe policemen as &quot;social doctors&quot; and policing as a &quot;surgical </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">operation to systematically remove cancerous growths from the body of </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">society”. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><a href="http://www.review1.blogspot.com/" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">THE HINDU</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Praveen Kumar is not only an upright police officer but also a poet and </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">a prolific writer.……..Policing the Police—an analytical Study of the </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">philosophy and field dynamics of the policing in practice highlight </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">various problem areas including defective selection and </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">recruitment,unsound training and unhealthy job culture and identifies </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">likely solutions for its redemption. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><a href="http://www.review3.blogspot.com/" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">DECCAN HERALD</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Praveen Kumar gives an insight into the Indian police set-up and </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">analyses the problems of the department, with interesting illustrations </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">from the field. Mr Kumar's book is a departure from the routine, where </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">he not only analyses the problems, but also suggests solutions. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><a href="http://www.review4.blogspot.com/" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">THE ASIAN AGE</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">The author expresses concern over sycophants climbing the ladder and </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">reaching the top to hold the reins and guide the destiny of the police. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">The result — a spiritless culture created by incompetent </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">leaders…….Policing the police involves self-policing. Through the book, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">the author has made an honest effort to throw some light on the state of </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">affairs of Indian police. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><a href="http://www.review2.blogspot.com/" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">THE TIMES OF INDIA</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">A police officer unravels his profession. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">INDIA TODAY </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">Policing with a cause. Policing The Police by Praveen Kumar.…….delves </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">deeply on this core aspect of policing and lays bare the Indian Police </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">setup, sheath by sheath………He interprets police and policing through the </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">prism of a poet’s sensibilities. </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" /><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;">THE HINDUSTAN TIMES </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" />  </p> <hr align="center" size="2" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:16px;line-height:normal;" width="100%" /><p> </p>