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Mukul Kumar is a civil servant, novelist, and poet. He belongs to the 1997 batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service. Presently, he is working in the Railway Board, Ministry of Railways. His published works include three novels, As Boys Become Men, Seduction by Truth, and Lost in the Love Maze, and two poetry anthologies, The Irrepressible Echoes and Rhythm of the Ruins. Mukul has translated his debut English fiction, As Boys Become Men into Hindi, which has been published as Aarohi by Prabhat Prakashan. Mukul has been honoured with the National Award for outstanding service to the Indian Railways, the Bharat Nirman Award for literary excellence by the Bharat Nirman Foundation, and Poorvanchal Gaurav Samman. His latest poetry collection Rhythm of the Ruins achieved the distinction of being recommended for Sahitya Akademi Award, 2024. This third collection, Catharsis, which was published earlier, is now in its new avatar.