K. K. Srivastava

Kuldeep Kumar Srivastava (born 1960) is an Indian poet and author. He has written three volumes of poetry and a literary semi-autobiographical non-fiction. Srivastava is the former Additional Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, New Delhi.

Currently, he is a member of Institutional Ethics Committee of mental health establishment, Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) Govt of NCT, New Delhi. He is also a columnist for The Economic Times.

Early life and career Srivastava was born in 1960 in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. He received his master's degree in economics in 1980 from Gorakhpur University and joined Civil Services in 1983. His first poetry book Ineluctable Stillness came in 2005 followed by two more poetry collections and a semi-autobiographical non-fiction.

Srivastava wrote Soliloquy of a Small-Town Uncivil Servant, a literary non-fiction published in March 2019. and his book Shadows of the Real was translated into Russian language by veteran Russian poet Adolf Shvedchikov.

As Principal Accountant General, he headed big offices in States like Kerala, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. Ineluctable Stillness (A Collection of Poems). 2005. . An Armless Hand Writes. Soliloquy of a Small-Town Uncivil Servant. 2019. 208 pages. .