ARUN KUMAR has relished traversing many worlds. He and his wife, Poornima, now live in Mumbai, where he serves as Chairman and CEO of KPMG, India. They continue to maintain a home in the San Francisco Bay Area where they raised their two sons and lived for over three decades. They then moved to Washington, D. C. where he served in a senior position in President Obama’s administration.
Mantram Beach is his second book of poetry; the first was Plain Truths. He co-edited Kerala’s Economy: Crouching Tiger, Sacred Cows.
Arun received a master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Kerala. He started his career in India as a member of TAS, the central management cadre of the Tata Group.
He credits his interest in poetry to his father, the late B. Madhavan Nair, and the
late Mr W. J. McMahon, his English teacher at Lawrence School, Lovedale.