Parimal Brahma

Parimal Brahma is a poet, writer and musician. He taught economics before joining the prestigious Indian Audit and Accounts Service in 1966. He worked in senior positions in various states in the CAG organization and in several ministries of the government of India. He was an additional secretary in the Ministry of Personnel before returning to the CAG office as deputy comptroller and auditor general of India from where he retired in 2004. He also served the Reserve Bank of India as the Banking Ombudsman for the Gujarat region. Since retirement, he has been teaching business ethics, economics and corporate governance as an adjunct professor in business schools. Despite high demands from and pressures on civil servants, Brahma was deeply invested in music, art and literature. Among his major publications are Pratham Diner Surjo (a collection of poems in Bengali), On the Corridors of Power: The Theatre of the Absurd, The Paradise Birds of Manas Sarovar and Other Stories, Confessions of a Bureaucrat, Manas Sarobar Pakhi Ebang Ananya Galpo (Bengali), Antharatma (a collection of Bengali poems), Ghare Baire (a dramatization of Tagore?s novel of the same title), Khelar Niyam (a Bengali adaptation of Luigi Pirandello?s play The Rules of the Game) and The Inner Voice (a collection of poems in English).