RESUME Ramendra Kumar is an award-winning writer with 16 books published by well known publishers such as National Book Trust, Children’s Book Trust, Navneet, Rupa and Vikas,to his credit. Ramen’s work has been published and reviewed in major newspapers and magazines and translated into several Indian languages as well as Japanese and Sinhala. One of his stories has been included in a text book for class nine students of Norway. A folk tale written by Ramen has been adapted as Kamishibai which is a traditional form of story telling in Japan. The writer is also the editor of www.bolokids.com : a New York based web portal for children. Ramen is a story teller and an inspirational speaker for young adults. An Engineer and an MBA, he is working as Assistant General Manager, Public Relations, Rourkela Steel Plant. To know more about the writer you can visit his website : www.ramendra.com<<