Kiran Sivakumar

Kiran Sivakumar is an Indian Police Service officer and the author of The Father Who Ran Out of Stories, now in its second edition. The book began at bedtime, when his daughter Tanvi asked for one more tale and the usual stories had run out. From that small panic came Dino and Rhino — two unlikely detectives — and a comic universe built for a child who refused to sleep.

Why he wrote

“I wasn't trying to write a book. I was trying to preserve the way she listened.”

Like many fathers, he sat beside his daughter after long days of command and investigation, still expected to produce dragons, jokes and mischief. One night he began inventing. The Father Who Ran Out of Stories is the record of those nights: playful, affectionate, and more personal than a children’s adventure. In its pages he is not an officer managing crises. He is a father trying to make his daughter laugh.

The book speaks to children, and perhaps more deeply to parents who have summoned imagination after a long day. It is about fatherhood, repetition, laughter, and the quiet turn when a child who first listened from the bed becomes the one leading every case.

Service

His career began in Varanasi and took him through district command in Noida, Jhansi, Sultanpur and Pratapgarh. He served in the CBI as Superintendent of Police and later as Deputy Inspector General, was selected for the Chevening Fellowship in 2019, and worked with INTERPOL, where he received the INTERPOL Medal of Excellence. He is now Inspector General of Police, Lucknow Range. He trained as an engineer — B.Tech from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram, and M.Tech from IIT Madras.

Home

He was born in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, in a household where language and public service were part of daily life. He is married to Neenu Kiran, a lawyer. Their daughter, Tanvi, is ten, and remains the spark behind the book. Family roots — a father who taught Hindi, a mother who worked at the State Bank of India, and two brothers in engineering and medicine — sit behind that public life, not in front of it.