Beyond Here and other poems

ABOUT THE BOOK Beyond Here and Other Poems is a poetry collection penned over last few years. The poems are my responses to various situations and events that took place around and left impressions. We belong to this earth and exist over a time and space. Events of life create many emotions like joy love victory loss fear separation sadness pain gratitude inspiration curiosity attachments devotion etc. Sometime the cause and effect do not appear related baffling the onlooker. I have captured as well as extrapolated my feelings in few lines like a sculptor who attempts to chisel out a statue from a raw stone. These poems are not figments of imaginations expressed in words. There are individuals inside the book who are in dialogue with me. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bishnupada Sethi a recipient of distinguished alumnus award from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela as well as National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai had joined the Indian Administrative Service in the year 1995. Currently he is posted as the Principal Secretary Revenue and Disaster Management Dept. and Department of Odia Language Literature and Culture under Odisha Goverment. By serving in various underdeveloped regions of the State like Kandhamal Gajapati Sonepur Nuapada Rayagada he got deep insights into the lives of common people and handled their issues with great sensitivity for which National Human Rights Commission which was then monitoring starvation deaths in KBK region appreciated his role. He got Presidents silver medal for conducting Census of 2011. As the Special Relief Commissioner Sethi’s performance on Managing Super Cyclone ‘FANI’ had been highly acclaimed throughout the world including International Bodies like the UNITED NATIONS as the best practice....See More