Abhay K reads his poems at Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi

Indian diplomat turned artist presents his work on planetary consciousness

Virtual Tour of exhibition We Have Come Far with Abhay K & Rajeev Lochan

Take a virtual tour of the exhibition We Have Come Far with Abhay K and Rajeev Lochan, Director, National Gallery of Modern Art

We Have Come Far- Art Exhibition of Abhay K curated by Suneet Chopra

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Life is a profusion of different colours, forms, shapes and  stages of development and Abhay's art which is essentially Naive Art reflects all these stages in a spontaneous manner and then this spontaneity has its own sequences and its own approach to reality. What I find fascinating about his work is that he goes from very individual signs to broader symbols so that you can understand the individual impact of colour and form at any particular time as well as (get) general understanding of certain colours and forms. So his art is not just an individual expression it is also rooted in general forms, colours and (their)developments.

Abhay's art can be understood as the attempt of self taught artists to capture life around them and express their emotions. As a genre it is part of Naive Art and it is interesting how he uses a blend of dots, lines, colours, spaces and even geometric shapes to give us a rounded picture of the works he is exhibiting here (We Have Come Far). Naive art has a special quality in that it is very closely related to the expression of the artist and it has in fact also references to a number of art forms. For example a number of his works remind you of Cubists, there are others that remind you of Pointillists, and other forms of art; however the way he has blended them all together is his own and the way he has progressed through the whole exhibition is also his own.

-Suneet Chopra

Latest column of Abhay K in Governance Now

Abhay K column on Twitter turning five on 21st March 2011 in Governance Now.

Twitter turned five on 21st March this year. It has already changed the way the world interacts.Twitter widens and deepens democracy. It reflects the swinging global opinion.Twitter is frivolous and very serious at the same time. It undermines as well as complements traditional media. Twitter is inexpensive. It costs nothing. That's why it is such a great tool of direct democracy. Read the full column at Twitter-Instant Voice of the Planet Turns Five

Abhay K receives Gov2.in-2011 Award

Abhay K receives social media award on behalf of Public Diplomacy Division

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS)

The Public Diplomacy division (MEA) was given the Gov2.in Award for being the first central ministry to propagate and use social media extensively as a communication tool to connect with the ordinary citizen.
The event was held Friday evening at a function at Hotel Le Meridien here. The award was received by Abhay Kumar, under secretary, Public Diplomacy, on behalf of the division.

Full article at http://www.deccanherald.com/content/145189/public-diplomacy-division-gets-social.html

Harmonious Palette- Poetry Anthology in 11 Languages Released

Harmonious Palette is a new poetry anthology published in St. Petersburg, Russia. The new book has poems in 11 languages. It carries four poems of Abhay K.



The Soul Song

Moments

The Garden

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I Saw Leaves Dancing With Joy






The Soul Song

I was always there
As the blowing wind
Or the falling leaves,
As the shining sun
Or the flowing streams,
As the chirping birds
Or the blooming buds,
As the blue sky
Or the empty space
I was never born
I did not die…

Prestigious Art & Literary journal 'Severnaya Aurora' publishes Abhay K's Poems

Prestigious Art & Literary journal 'Severnaya Aurora' publishes Russian translation of  Abhay K's Poems titled 'Reflection' in its 12th Volume of 2010-

Poems can be read here .

Latest Publications by Abhay K (Jan 2011)

Latest publications of Author Abhay K include-

What makes the 21st century different from the 20th?

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India is Fast Becoming Asia's Art & Literary Hub

Abhay K's Birth of Global Democracy as lead edit page article in Times of India

Abhay K's article 'Birth of Global Democracy' appeared as the lead article at the edit page of India's leading English language daily Times of India on 21st January 2011.

Latest Publications by Abhay K

The Inspiring Obamas: an article by Abhay K has appeared on the University of Southern California, Center for Public Diplomacy Blog. The article focuses on the soft power of the personalities of Barack & Michelle Obama.

In his article 'Beyond Diplomacy' published in the journals 'India Abroad' & 'Diplomatic Square' Abhay K surveys Indian Diplomatic Literature.

In his piece 'Appreciating Art' the author outlines what one should see if going to an exhibition for the first time.

Opening of Exhibition of Abhay K at Adzak Museum, Paris

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eGov 2.0 Award 2010

 Abhay K. along with Navdeep Suri receiving eGov 2.0 2010 Award at the Claridges in New Delhi

Abhay K. along with the momento of eGov 2.0 award 2010

The story began on Thursday 8th July 2010 when Abhay K. opened a Twitter account for the Public Diplomacy Division  with the handle 'IndianDiplomacy' and put the first official tweet  -'Special Issue of India Pespectives on Tagore at http://www.scribd.com/doc/34044322/India-Perspectives-Special-Issue-on-Rabindranath-Tagore ' . The rest is history. Accounts on Facebook, Youtube, Blogspot, Scribd & Issuu followed which caught the imagination of the mainstream media. About 16 stories appeared in HT, ToI, Mail Today, Tehelka etc. on the social media initiatives of the Public Diplomacy Division. And finally the award came on Thursday 28th October 2010. It was a victory of team work, able leadership of Navdeep Suri who fought many battles to let Abhay K continue implementing his vision.

E-Release of 10 Questions of the Soul on Kindle

I think that these questions are based on ancient Indian philosophy. For me, they are a very interesting mixture of Plato, Voltaire, Vernadsky etc.

As a careful reader, I would like to make some comments on author's philosophical system. I am not quite sure that everybody craves for physical immortality. To my mind, people are simply afraid of death and the suffering connected with the process. If it were in some other way, there would be no Epicurean philosophy of death, but only Stoic.

From what I have read, SQ is an inborn stable quality of a person. I think that everybody can develop spiritually, so SQ can be flexible (improving). This would give a perspective to any person.

I also believe that a person is a combination of spiritual and material. When material dies, spiritual is liberated and goes on living. I do not see this as immortality, to my mind, our spiritual part is only lent for the period of our physical existence. It is just eternal, without the beginning or the end.

It was very interesting to read 10 questions after reading author's poems, because now I know that I have got the correct understanding of the philosophical foundation of author's poetry.

Prof. Irina Burova
Department of History of Foreign Literature
St. Petersburg State University

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                                           - Prof. Irina Burova*

The history of the Indian literature began about 4,000 years ago. Anglo-Indian literature is far more younger, having started to form only in the second half of the 19th century.

It is worth mentioning that before the World War I two great men of letters whose creative work was inseparably connected with India had been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), an English prose writer, poet and journalist got it in 1907, and in 1913 it was presented to Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1841), an Indian writer, poet, artist, composer and public figure. Kipling spent the first six years of his life in India and later, in 1882-1889, worked there as a journalist. He was the first to tell the world about the real life of the British India, sighing deeply over “the White Man’s burden”, the one that was making him propagate European civilization in distant lands with marked cultural traditions of their own. Knowing India much better than most of his contemporaries, Kipling was pessimistic with respect to the perspective of achieving mutual understanding between the representatives of the two worlds, having coined his skepticism in his famous “East is East, and West is West”.