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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)
The Sons of Godwine: Part Two of The Last Great Saxon Earls
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<p>Emerging from the long shadow cast by his formidable father, Harold Godwineson showed himself to be a worthy successor to the Earldom of Wessex. In the following twelve years, he became the King's most trusted advisor, practically taking the reins of government into his own hands. And on Edward the Confessor's death, Harold Godwineson mounted the throne—the first king of England not of royal blood. Yet Harold was only a man, and his rise in fortune was not blameless. Like any person aspiring to power, he made choices he wasn't particularly proud of. Unfortunately, those closest to him sometimes paid the price of his fame.<br /><br />This is a story of Godwine's family as told from the viewpoint of Harold and his younger brothers. Queen Editha, known for her Vita Ædwardi Regis, originally commissioned a work to memorialize the deeds of her family, but after the Conquest historians tell us she abandoned this project and concentrated on her husband, the less dangerous subject. In THE SONS OF GODWINE and FATAL RIVALRY, I am telling the story as it might have survived had she collected and passed on the memoirs of her tragic brothers.<br /><br />This book is part two of The Last Great Saxon Earls series. Book one, GODWINE KINGMAKER, depicted the rise and fall of the first Earl of Wessex who came to power under Canute and rose to preeminence at the beginning of Edward the Confessor's reign. Unfortunately, Godwine's misguided efforts to champion his eldest son Swegn recoiled on the whole family, contributing to their outlawry and Queen Editha's disgrace. Their exile only lasted one year and they returned victorious to London, though it was obvious that Harold's career was just beginning as his father's journey was coming to an end.<br /><br />Harold's siblings were all overshadowed by their famous brother; in their memoirs we see remarks tinged sometimes with admiration, sometimes with skepticism, and in Tostig's case, with jealousy. We see a Harold who is ambitious, self-assured, sometimes egocentric, imperfect, yet heroic. His own story is all about Harold, but his brothers see things a little differently. Throughout, their observations are purely subjective, and witnessing events through their eyes gives us an insider’s perspective.<br /><br />Harold was his mother's favorite, confident enough to rise above petty sibling rivalry but Tostig, next in line, was not so lucky. Harold would have been surprised by Tostig's vindictiveness, if he had ever given his brother a second thought. And that was the problem. Tostig's love/hate relationship with Harold would eventually destroy everything they worked for, leaving the country open to foreign conquest. This subplot comes to a crisis in book three of the series, FATAL RIVALRY.</p>
Story Behind The Book
ANANYA PRIYA LAVANYA kannada poems till 2009 by PRAVEEN KUMAR in 2009