K. Jayakumar (born 6 October 1952) is a senior Indian Administrative Service

Indian Administrative Service

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 (IAS) officer from Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

. He is currently the Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala

Government of Kerala

The Government of Kerala is a democratically elected body that governs the State of Kerala, India for a period of 5 years. The state government is headed by the Governor of Kerala as the nominal head of state, with a democratically elected Chief Minister as real head of the executive. The state...

. Jayakumar is also a popular Malayali

Malayali

Malayali is the term used to refer to the native speakers of Malayalam, originating from the Indian state of Kerala...

 poet, lyricist

Lyricist

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, and scriptwriter

Screenwriter

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. He is the son of noted Malayalam film director M. Krishnan Nair

M. Krishnan Nair (director)

M. Krishnan Nair was an Indian film director of Malayalam films. He directed over 100 films. His son K...

.

Career

Jayakumar belongs to 1978 Kerala cadre batch of IAS. He began his civil service career as an assistant collector in 1980. During his career Jayakumar held important bureaucratic positions at various level in the Governments of Kerala

Government of Kerala

The Government of Kerala is a democratically elected body that governs the State of Kerala, India for a period of 5 years. The state government is headed by the Governor of Kerala as the nominal head of state, with a democratically elected Chief Minister as real head of the executive. The state...

 and India

Government of India

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, including District Collector

District collector

The District Collector is the district head of administration of the bureaucracy in a state of India. Though he/she is appointed and is under general supervision of the state government, he/she has to be a member of the elite IAS recruited by the Central Government...

, Kozhikode

Kozhikode district

Kozhikode District , formerly Calicut, is a district of Kerala state, situated on the southwest coast of India. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters. The district is 38.25% urbanised...

; Director of Tourism Department, Government of Kerala; Director of Public Instructions (DPI), Kerala; Joint Secretary, Ministry of Tourism & Culture, Government of India; Agriculture Production Commissioner, Agriculture Production Department, Government of Kerala. He is currently serving as the Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Kerala. In 2008, Jayakumar was honored by presenting the first K.P.S. Menon

K. P. S. Menon

Kumara Padmanabha Sivasankara Menon, CIE, ICS was a career diplomat in the Indian Civil Service, .-Early life:...

 Memorial Award in recognition to his distinguished service as a bureaucrat.

Literary career

Jayakumar is also a popular lyricist

Lyricist

A lyricist is a songwriter who specializes in lyrics. A singer who writes the lyrics to songs is a singer-lyricist. This differentiates from a singer-composer, who composes the song's melody.-Collaboration:...

 and scriptwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. He has written lyrics for over 80 Malayalam films and scripted two mega serials

Serial (radio and television)

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 for TV. He is also the author of more than a dozen books in Malayalam, including a couple of anthologies of Malayali poems. Perhaps his most famous works are Kerala – a poem in green and gold and Seduction of the Soul. He has translated Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...

's Gitanjali

Gitanjali

Gitanjali is a collection of 103 English poems, largely translations, of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated....

and Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān,Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān, or Jibrān Xalīl Jibrān; Arabic , January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) also known as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer...

's The Prophet

The Prophet (book)

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English by the Lebanese artist, philosopher and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work...

and Jesus, The Son of Man into Malayalam

Malayalam language

Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...

.

Selected poems

• Aathriyude Sadhyathakal
• Ardhavrithangal
• Solamante Pranayageethangal
• Rumiyude Pranayakavithakal
• Geetanjali

External links

• An image of K. Jayakumar