What: Poet, artist and award-winning diplomat Abhay K will release his second book of poems Remains Thursday, June 28.

Hon'ble Minister for Parliamentary Affairs & Water Resources, Government of India, Pawan Kumar Bansal will be releasing this book.

About the Book: Remains offers "poems that are vibrant with a measured optimism". The collection is divided into six books. The poems in each book "confront with the smell and feel of a person, place or thing and create a resonance like the ringing of bells or like a gentle breeze on a hot desert afternoon. What is characteristic of the poems in this collection is a pristine kind of simplicity devoid of too much artifice, poems alive with the rippling, surging presence of water."

Venue: Sapru House, Barakhamba Road, New Delhi on June 28 at 5 pm.

Who is attending: Hon'ble Minister for Parliamentary Affairs & Water Resources, Government of India, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Agrahara Krishnamurthy, Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, Sukrita Paul Kumar, Poet and Ast. Professfor, Delhi University, Talia Bentson, Poet, Singer, Sarvajit Chakravarti, Acting Director General, ICWA.

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