Dehradun, Oct. 28 -- Garhwal Post Bureau

Dehradun, 27 Oct: On the first day of the just concluded Valley of Words Litfest at Hotel Madhuban, the houseful Shabdawali Hall witnessed an interesting session of poetry reading by three poet-bureaucrats, Pramod Jain, Mugdha Sinha and Mukul Kumar. The session was moderated by son of the soil author-poet-lawyer Ajay Jugraan.

After some engaging and humorous questions by the moderator about how their gentle art of poetry survived the apparent culture of ambition, power and privilege in the civil services, the at ease poet-bureaucrats read some touching poems from their books.

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