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Ramendra Kumar dedicates a love poem to his beloved wife Madhavi Kumar to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Ramendra Kumar and Madhavi
My beloved of 3 plus decades
My mate through thick and thin,
A confidant, my buddy forever
She is my smiling assassin.
When she unleashes a smile
I still go so weak in the knees,
One melting look from her
Makes me think of the birds & the bees.
My only grouse is that
She thinks for ardour it’s too late,
How do I convince her
That we are on a forever date.
Her ‘normal’ voice is,
just as sweet as honey
But when she loses a cool,
She can with a yell ‘fell’ me.
When she sings a filmy song,
I groove with joy and fun
But when she indulges in a thumri
For cover she makes me run!
The left side of her brain
Always works overtime,
She handles major ‘ministries’
With a skill that is sublime.
She treats me as someone
Whose mind is quite addled,
Whose heart is in its place
But whose head is too muddled.
She has been my anchor
In every turbulent sea,
When the dark gets darkest
She is all that I see.
As we walk slowly towards,
The twilight of our life
I thank the heavens above,
For making her my wife.
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Ramendra Kumar (Ramen) is an award-winning writer, performance storyteller and inspirational speaker with 49 books. His writings have been translated into 32 languages and included in 26 textbooks and many anthologies in various countries. Ramen has written across all genres ranging from picture books to adult fiction, satire, poetry, travelogues, biographies and on issues related to parenting and relationships.
His writings have been published by the major publishing houses in India. His books brought out by National Book Trust (NBT), India have notched up sales of more than 4.9 lakh copies in just one year.
Ramen has been invited to several international literary festivals as well as Indian events such as Jaipur Litfest and seminars organised by Sahitya Akademi and IGNOU. The author has won a total of 41 awards in the competition for writers of children’s literature organised by Children’s Book Trust (CBT) over the years, which is among the highest by any writer.
Ramen was chosen as the ‘Author and Storyteller of the Year’ (2022), on ‘Talking Stories’, London, UK’s number one Radio Programme dedicated to the art of storytelling. He was nominated as a Jury Member for the Best Children’s Author Category of The Times of India’s ‘Women AutHer’ Awards, 2020. Ramen was also selected as a mentor for the Scholastic Writers Academy.
An alumnus of the prestigious Hyderabad Public School (HPS), Ramen is an Engineer & an MBA. He and his inspiration, his wife Madhavi, were General Managers at SAIL, when they took Voluntary Retirement to pursue their respective passions. Their children are bonsai celebrities in their own right. While Ankita is a youth icon and a travel blogger with an Instagram following of 296 K, Aniket creates cool Apps and designs covers for his dad’s books.
Ramen is now a Cancer warrior and an inspiration to many.
His website is www.ramendra.in and he has a page devoted to him on Wikipedia.
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