Taxman dreams in Urdu
Taxman makes waves with ghazals
Indo-Asian News Service
Mumbai, December 13
It might sound incongruous, but VK Tripathi, an officer with the Indian Revenue Service, has released an amazing collection of Urdu ghazals in an album that is making waves around the country.
Tere Khayalon Mein is a compilation of eight poems written by the 1984-batch officer and sung by noted artists like Alka Yagnik, Suresh Wadkar, Mohammad Aziz and Shankar Mahadevan.
"It was by sheer chance that I took to writing ghazals and nazms (another form of Urdu poetry)," says Tripathi. "May be it was the surroundings that inspired me, or may be the poet within just got the better of me.
"I used to translate my thoughts into words and scribble for hours."
One day he surfed through his writings and thought of selecting eight of his favourites.
"I recited them to a friend, who is a connoisseur of Urdu poetry. His instant reaction was a great source of encouragement," he says.
"It was he who introduced me to Universal music. They liked my writings and insisted that it be clothed with music into an album."
And not without success.
Says award-winning Urdu poet Shabnam Naqvi: "I really liked the imagination of Tripathi's writing, how he blends his words with softness, simplicity and at times satire. His yearning for the beloved and his reaction to reality have been juxtaposed beautifully in his writings."
This isn't the first claim to fame for Tripathi, currently on deputation as the managing director of the National Textile Corporation here.
The former commissioner of income tax is credited with designing a tax management software that is widely used across the country.
Although he has a keen interest in music and sports, his talent as a poet has only now come to the fore. And his maiden album has catapulted him to the top of India's literary circuit.
A book of 91 ghazals, nazms and free verse from Tripathi, Meri Zamin Key Log, is also on the anvil.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1150062,00110005.htm
Indo-Asian News Service
Mumbai, December 13
It might sound incongruous, but VK Tripathi, an officer with the Indian Revenue Service, has released an amazing collection of Urdu ghazals in an album that is making waves around the country.
Tere Khayalon Mein is a compilation of eight poems written by the 1984-batch officer and sung by noted artists like Alka Yagnik, Suresh Wadkar, Mohammad Aziz and Shankar Mahadevan.
"It was by sheer chance that I took to writing ghazals and nazms (another form of Urdu poetry)," says Tripathi. "May be it was the surroundings that inspired me, or may be the poet within just got the better of me.
"I used to translate my thoughts into words and scribble for hours."
One day he surfed through his writings and thought of selecting eight of his favourites.
"I recited them to a friend, who is a connoisseur of Urdu poetry. His instant reaction was a great source of encouragement," he says.
"It was he who introduced me to Universal music. They liked my writings and insisted that it be clothed with music into an album."
And not without success.
Says award-winning Urdu poet Shabnam Naqvi: "I really liked the imagination of Tripathi's writing, how he blends his words with softness, simplicity and at times satire. His yearning for the beloved and his reaction to reality have been juxtaposed beautifully in his writings."
This isn't the first claim to fame for Tripathi, currently on deputation as the managing director of the National Textile Corporation here.
The former commissioner of income tax is credited with designing a tax management software that is widely used across the country.
Although he has a keen interest in music and sports, his talent as a poet has only now come to the fore. And his maiden album has catapulted him to the top of India's literary circuit.
A book of 91 ghazals, nazms and free verse from Tripathi, Meri Zamin Key Log, is also on the anvil.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1150062,00110005.htm
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