Wednesday, October 10, 2018

List of poetry books written by Indian diplomats


“Once the storm has passed
Once the dust has settled down
Who remembers the blood-sworn vow?
The cloud serpent
Again, steals the water-womb.
The sacrifices made
At the altar of trade
An uneasy head wears the broken crown” —Anshuman Gaur, 2001 batch IFS
Do you know former foreign secretary Nirupama Rao is also a poet? Or that poet-diplomat Abhay K had published five collections of poetry? “When the mood is on, words, thoughts and images flow with ease”, reads the preface of the book — Snowflakes of Time (Poetry Collection) — written by another former foreign secretary, Kanwal Sibal. As Keats wrote once, if poetry comes “not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it had better not come at all”.
Here below are some of the poetry collections written by Indian Foreign Service officers, both serving and retired:
1. Pillars of a Landscape: A Poetry Collection (by Aftab Seth)
2. Enigmatic Love: Love Poems from Moscow (2008) (by Abhay K)
3. CAPITALS: A poetry anthology (2017) (by Abhay K)
4. Isthmus of Time: A Poetry Collection (2017) (by Anshuman Gaur)
5. Jonaki, A Collection of Poems (Marathi) (Dyaneshwar Mulay)
6. Droplet— A Collection of English Poetry (by Gauri Shankar Gupta)
7. Chand Lamhe: A Collection of Hindi Poetry (by Gauri Shankar Gupta)
8. Snowflakes of Time (Poetry Collection) (by Kanwal Sibal)
9. Samay, Sapna Aur Tum (Poetry) (by Madhup Mohta)
10. The Fifth Element- A poetry collection (by Manju Seth) 
11. Rain Rising: A poetry collection (by Nirupama Rao)
12. Oriya story and poetry collections (by Subhakanta Behera)
13. Several Poetry Collections in Urdu (by Surinder Malik)

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