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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Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity. She asked, “But where’s Santa?” This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby. Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town. His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday

Story Behind The Book

CELESTIAL GLOW english poems from 2009 onwards by PRAVEEN KUMAR

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COMMENTS ON ‘CELESTIAL GLOW’ POEMS BY OTHER POETS <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5464361">Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi</a> on “Divine Light” Comment: Interesting poem..Preveen Kumar <div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5476094">Sharon Smith</a> on “Divinely Bound” </div> Comment: Just lovely! ! Thankyou. <div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5462390">Shahzia Batool</a> on “Love Is The Winner” </div> Comment: Amor Vincit Omnia...! ! ! ...No doubt... ________________________________________________________________________ <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5435540">Anele ''The African Son'' kaPotelwa</a> on “My Creative Endeavours” Comment: Extremely technically structured, innovative arts at its on peak... Great work ________________________________________________________________________ <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5462390">Shahzia Batool</a> on “She Is Beauty's Soul” Comment: It was my firm opinion that no praise can be more high as Thomas Hardy's praise of Eustacia Vye in Queen of night: The return of the Native...you have shaken that firmness of my opinion... ________________________________________________________________________ <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5462390">Shahzia Batool</a> on “Goddess in Human Form” <div> Comment: Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike and like the sun, she shines on all alike........ Favors to none, to all she smiles extends oft she rejects, but never once offends...A.Pope...(Belinda) One likes to meet such a lovely person...for praising whom the poet never gets short of words n expressions... </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5265870">Romeo Della Valle</a> on “Simple Life” Comment: Your works are always inspirational and optimistic and I must thank you again for sharing this masterpiece with me and the World, hoping that this amazing write will touch the heart and mind of many depressed and brokenhearted people in this planet! Thank you for your message of Love and Peace! ! 10+++ Well deserved! God Bless You! Love and Peace for always! Romeo from New York City! <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5443264">Dave Walker</a> on “India” Comment: A really beautiful poem about one of the most mystical places in the world. A fantastic write. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5462390">Shahzia Batool</a> on “India” Comment: E.M.Forster's A Passage to India...offers a mystically graphic description of india...The sky settles everything-not only climates and seasons, but when the earth shall be beautiful... <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5462390">Shahzia Batool</a> on “God” Comment: God is pure consciousness that stirs all worlds. here on this point you won't see any contradictions... <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5451606">Sanu Puthupallil</a> on “All Is Beautiful” Comment: a beautiful poem... really really a great write <div> </div> Veeraivah Subbulakshmi on “My Charming Bride” Comment: nice poem. but lot of sugar. I thought it was going to end, such a long poem on his love of life. PK. Any way full mark for you. <div> </div> ASA on “<a href="http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?id=303024&authorid=122774">Golden Wonder</a>” Comment: how often we do foolishly let 'that special one' get away. thanks for sharing. <div> </div> Ron on “<a href="http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?id=303024&authorid=122774">Golden Wonder</a>” Comment: I see that you are master of love poetry. You have a great range of vocabulary to describe your passion for love. It might have been better if you had posted one poem at a time. Most readers will not take the time to read multiple poems. I can see why you received acclaim for your poetry. <div> </div> Veeraivah Subbulakshmi on “You’re My Wonder” Comment: very beautiful poem! 10 for you <div> </div> Kevin Murphy on “She Lights My Soul” Comment: Exquisite poem and a hidden treasure it is! <div> </div> Yoonoos Peerbocus on “Harmony” Comment: interestingly penned in stanzas pattern <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> on “She Is Love In Its Divine Glow” Comment: love in divine glow, thanks. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> on “I’m Not Alone In This World” Comment: awaiting divine ordain, I like it my dear poet, <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5410949">Aftab Alam Khursheed</a> on “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=35247272">Devout Love</a>” Comment: Love is universal and in this way little ahead lust to sustaine love if no treachery is mixed in it 9 <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5522505">Somanathan Iyer</a> on “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=35247272">Devout Love</a>” Comment: Nice way of expressing love Mr. Praveen. inspiring. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> on “Bond” Comment: fill my world in heavenly bliss, good poem, thanks. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5541603">Lorraine Colon</a> on “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=35406432">Celestial Bliss</a>” Comment: Beautiful poem, but sadly, fate does not ensure that we find each other. How many people die a lonely death never having met the one who would complete their life. There is no guarantee in life, not on anything. All we can do is hope for the best. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5479009">Babatunde Aremu</a> “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=35406432">Celestial Bliss</a>” Comment: Nice Poem. Highly philosophical and spiritual. Kudos to the poet <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=35406432">Celestial Bliss</a>” Comment: pure celestial bliss, good poem, thanks. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5227566">Is It Poetry</a> “She Blossomed My Soul” Comment: This poem shows hard work, and quite a gift for verse...iip <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5551966">Geetha Jayakumar</a> “Cosmic Focus” Comment: Good poem.....Well written....yes, its Cosmic Focus...Thanks for sharing. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> “Golden Glow” Comment: beauty onward, thanks, <div> </div> Margaret Alice Second “Illusion” Comment: You express it perfectly, the outer layers of life that trouble us and have us running around in circles, while beneath it all is the real core of insight and infinite truths. Illusion is an expression of Wisdom and I thank you for posting it! <div> </div> Whab Abdul “World View” Comment: nice poem, i am impressed with this poem <div> </div> Suman Kumar Das “Holy Fire” Comment: So beautifully presented...........................liked it very much. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> “Focus” Comment: only need is joy and happiness, very fine one. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> “What Is Love?” Comment: very fine love, Love, love, love, love.. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5576490">Colleen Courtney</a> “Blossoming Together” Comment: What a gorgeous piece of work! So sexual but in a beautiful way, which is a refreshing change! Bravo to you my dear for such a splendid poem! <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5470746">Gajanan Mishra</a> “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=38762178">Passion</a>” Comment: well done, I like it, thanks. <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5576490">Colleen Courtney</a> “Lost Sweet Days” Comment: Love the emotion which comes across in this well written piece. Can feel the writer's despair. A beautiful write! <div> </div> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/club/profile.asp?member=5576490">Colleen Courtney</a> “<a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/members/mpoems/default.asp?show=poem&poem=38919613">She's Pure Pleasure</a>” Comment: This is such a beautifully worded piece. Truly enjoyed the read! <div> </div>

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