Revelations of a Pantheistic Poet: Dr K.V. Dominic in Conversation

Goutam Karmakar

doi:10.22356/wic.v4i2.18

Abstract

Dr K.V. Dominic, English poet, critic, short story writer and editor, is a retired professor of the Post Graduate & Research Department of English, Newman College, Thodupuzha, Kerala, India. He was born in 1956 at Kalady, a holy place in Kerala where Adi Sankara, the philosopher who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, was born. He took his PhD on the topic ‘East-West Conflicts in the Novels of R. K. Narayan’ from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala. In addition to innumerable poems, short stories and critical articles published in national and international journals, he has authored/edited thirty books so far. Another poetry book of Dominic translated into French by Dominique Demiscault is in the process of being published in France. Prof. Dominic is the Secretary of Guild of Indian English Writers, Editors and Critics (GIEWEC). He has conducted several national seminars and workshops all over India. He is one of the writers of the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries’ magazine and participant of SAARC literary festivals. He is the editor and publisher of the international refereed biannual journal, International Journal on Multicultural Literature (IJML) and Editor-in-Chief of the GIEWEC’s international refereed biannual journal, Writers Editors Critics (WEC). He is also the publisher of the international refereed annual, New Fiction Journal (NFJ). International Poets Academy, Chennai conferred on him its highest award in 2009; The India Inter-Continental Cultural Association, Chandigarh conferred on him the Kafla Inter-continental Award of Honour Sahitya Shiromani in recognition of his contribution in the field of literature at the 10th International Writers' Festival at Trivandrum (Kerala) in 2014.

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I am the fourth son of the six children family
I was not smart enough and to some extent reserved in making friendship with others
In my undergraduate college days I grew smart enough to be the leader of the class

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K.V. DOMINIC: I have portrayed the problems of the poor, the marginalised, women, weaker sections and the downtrodden in many of my poems. K.V. DOMINIC: I think that no other Indian poet in English has dealt with as deeply as me the issues of cruelty to animals and their relationship with human beings and relationship between God, Man and Nature. GOUTAM KARMAKAR: You are a poet, professor, critic, editor and short story writer.

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