About Mukta

My Story

Mukta’ means freedom, and this is the very essence of my creative work, be it in paint or prose. I paint and write to express myself in unconventional ways. Challenging the status quo, abundant and layered color and play is probably what makes my work different.

(www.muktakamplikar.net)

At work I am an entrepreneur. I run an Organization development company, MUKTA- Liberating Human Potential, out of Pune (www.muktakamplikar.com). Having studied the intricacies of business structures, after often reading fiction and poetry, and much travel, I find my passion in painting and writing. The process of meaning-making intrigues me. I am a seeker- a perpetual student of literature, of human condition, poetry, aesthetics, and of life .With my merchandise, I make functional stuff aesthetic and bring art to our daily lives – I try to bridge the gap between beauty and functionality. I want more people to own,appreciate, and live art because it gives meaning to our existence.

With my work, I wish to make the world a more aesthetic, a more playful, and a more sensitive place.

 I was born in Indore. I studied science at school and college and switched to business economics and services marketing for my post graduation. I moved to Pune when I was 23 (and in the middle of my doctoral thesis) to work with the National Institute of Bank Management.

I was awarded the Senior research fellowship for her Post-doctoral work by the AMDISA. I then pursued and completed the Wharton Accelerated Development Program. I worked for about 19 years as a management professional in the areas of Strategy, Marketing, Human Capital Development and Organizational Design and Development with various large corporates including the Tata Group, Cummins, RPG , Bajaj Auto etc. In 2017, I founded my own organizational development and human capital development consulting firm – MUKTA – Liberating Human Potential (www.muktakamplikar.com), and that’s what I do for a living. I traveled the world for work and leisure during the last 24 years and continue to do so. 

I wrote since I was a child. But I began to paint only after I came to Pune and soon began combining the pen with my brush and created picture books that were free to be interpreted by the reader/viewer.  Freedom, love and relating have been my themes ever since be it my work , my paintings, or my writing. Being a woman I also specially write for women.I continue to blend art (including music and theatre) and literature with my consulting work as well.

My first book Traces Faces Lives Spaces (2014) was a collection of my paintings and little haiku like poems. In 2017, I wrote Solitary Spaces- my second collection of short, liberated stories followed by Moods and Moons (2019)– which is a collection of poems about the various moods that the moon evokes.

The Girl and the Time-lapse is my latest book which is a collection of my experiences of the five seasons that rolled during the pandemic in 2020. The book has just been launched in Feb 2021

Influences – St Antoine de Exupery , Richard Bach, Kahlil Gibran, Haruki Murakami , Rainer Maria Rilke, Amrita Pritam, Maya Angelou

Highlights

For Mukta, life is about creation. She loves life in all its colours, hues, textures, expressions, tones and symphonies. She lives in the moment , paints and writes with passion.