Ramesh Tiwari

Ramesh Chandra Tiwari is presently working for Life Insurance Corporation of India. He was promoted to Assistant Administrative Officer in 2009 but he downshifted the same year because of his passion for creative writing. He graduated in Hindi, English and Economics from Avadh University, Faizabad in 1984 but he completed a master’s degree in English Literature after twenty years from the same university in 2004. His return to education after a long gap awakened a new love for learning in him. He studied English grammar and then got into the habit of reading different literature books, which later inspired him to write prose, poetry and fiction. He has written 18 short stories, 25 short shorts, 5 nonfictions and a number of poems, in the years since. The Teacher of Kabir’, one of his essays appeared in ‘Reading Hour’ Bangalore and two of them, ‘On Being Distinguished and ‘A No-Party Democracy’ in The Galaxy. His poems ‘The Human Population’ and ‘Florian’ is published in the Criter

Today Kisan Degree college, Bahraich hosted a poetry reading under the banner of ‘The KDC Alumni Association and Hindi Department’. In his inaugural Address, the president of the college, Shri Jata Shanker Singh, expressed his gratitude to the poets and the audience and encouraged the participants. The principal, Mr S. P. Singh honoured a few well-known poets of the district like Shri Radha Krishna Pathik, DR Ashok Gulshan, Shri Atul Awasthi Atul and Dr Radhey Shyam Pandey. The event was very enlightening and entertaining. Dr Vivek Dixit anchored the meet and Dr Neeraj Kumar Pandey, the head of the department of Hindi, preceded his speech with a vote of thanks to the conference. I am extremely grateful to the Association’s Secretary, Dr Vivek Dixit for inviting me to the grand poetry reading event hosted by KDC Alumni Association and Hindi Department. And at the same time I am deeply grateful to Dr Shiv Prasad Singh for honouring me as an English writer of the district. I used to be