DEEPAK SARKAR
A dual American and Canadian citizen, Deepak Sarkar was born in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, on October 17, 1954. He is a writer, composer, music teacher and performer, besides being a Professional Engineer, MBA in Telecommunications Management and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is a converted vegetarian who believes in non-violence and that peace can be achieved throughout the world without military strategic interests while visualizing collateral damages as real death and destructions.
He was brought up in Southern Calcutta (Kolkata) and was always keen to know and learn about people and their real conditions. He is a nature- and animal-lover who maintained his faith in universal well-being throughout his career. He has traveled extensively in North America and India as well as visited many foreign countries in Europe and Asia.
Deepak is also a singer who composed songs like ‘Canadian Pride’, ‘Spirit of Victoria’, ‘Quest’, ‘Co-existence’, ‘Peace Now’, ‘Life is Simple’ and ‘New Year’! Directed many Musical shows and performed solo in community fund raising events, as well as produced music CDs and informational web sites. He wrote many peace related articles since 9/11, 2001 on his website.
Many poems by Kolki (his pen-name) have been published in the International Society of Poets anthologies including ‘Immortal Verses’ and ‘Secrets of the Soul’, News Media and journals around the world, as well as part of Noble House collections like ‘Colours of the Heart’ and ‘Theatre of the Mind’, some winning awards! He has designed and edited a book by renowned art historians Dr. P. Banerjee and R. Banerjee, ‘Indian & Central Asian Art – Narrative Interpretations of Unique Fragments’.
Currently he is working on future books ‘Living with the lovebirds’, ‘Real path to 9/11’, ‘Universal Consciousness’ and ‘Humane Cuisine’. He says: ‘Let us not waste any more time hunting for virtual terrorism! The whole world is hungry for peace and democracy achieved through mutual respect and understanding, not using bombs and missiles. War divides and destroys people and civilization, animal and environment, as the ultimate weapons of mass destruction.’