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‘Odyssey into Nothingness’ is Joe Sebastian’s (Olassa), second Japanese-inspired haiku and senryu collection, which celebrates the brevity and poesy of this miniature art form by observing and experiencing nature and humans in splendorous ways. This often leads to that moment of epiphany, resulting in introspection on the inevitable march of seasons, birth, youthfulness, longing, courtship, loneliness, and death, the inexorable cycle of the cosmos and life and the myriad feelings it engenders in any sensitive soul.
Joe Sebastian
Joe Sebastian (Olassa), a graduate from Lucknow Christian College, Lucknow, in Economics and Political Science, is a gold medallist post-graduate in Political Science from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, and belongs to the 1990 batch of the Indian Revenue Services(IRS) and is presently posted as Principal Commissioner of Income-Tax, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
His working life commenced as a bureaucrat starting off as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax in Bangalore and then on to Mangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and now again back in Bangalore and in various capacities and has in his service career attended various training programmes, including at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, North Carolina, USA & IBFD, Amsterdam, Netherlands. He also served as Director in Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports New Delhi, India, on deputation and later as Executive Director in the Sports Authority of India New Delhi, India, from 2007 to 2013 where he had the privilege to be associated with the organisation and conduct the Commonwealth Games, 2010, Delhi, during which time he was also the Government observer for the Paralympic Committee of India and Special Olympics Bharat, the apex National Sports Federations for the physically and mentally differently abled, respectively, his contribution to which have been widely acknowledged and appreciated.
