PRAVEEN KUMAR with his more than three decades of government service at senior levels and as a poet of seventeen published collections and as an author of six 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, Indian Express, Deccan Herald and Times of India and other periodicals and journals were extremely popular and often sensational by their innovative unorthodox thoughts.
He retired from Government Service as a Senior Police Officer after 31 years of service that covered assignments as Director of Food and Civil Supplies Enforcement, Deputy Commissioner of Bangalore City, State Intelligence in charge of Foreigners, Coastal Security Police and various assignments in CID inter alia.
Born in Mangalore as the eldest son of Shree R.D.Suvarna and Smt. B.Sarojini, Praveen Kumar graduated in Science from St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, going on to obtain post-graduate degree in Literature from Mysore University. He also holds post-graduate diploma in Business Management as well as Higher Diploma in Cooperative Management. He also attended six advanced courses at the National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
His Poem, 'Justice' figures in Karnataka IX Standard Second Language English Text Book from the 2013-14 Academic Year.
I’m simply yours,
Every minute, hour, for endless years
Along the vennels of past, present and future,
I’m simply yours
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Sprinkles of sweet memories
Hiding deep ‘neath my heart
Open up like a lovely dream;
Beneath the face of pristine charm,
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Who, on the Earth, sent you here
To rise in my inner horizons
In mad riot of bright colours?
Who, in Heaven, invented you
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In songs more than stars on night sky
In tunes more than waves in deep sea,
I called you, day and night, for years;
In colours deeper than evening sky,
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Sarva Karana Karanam,
Cause of all causes,
Root of all roots,
Source of all sources is she.
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