Kedarnath Singh
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A brief biography
Avijit Ghosh, March 21, 2018: The Times of India
Born in village Chakia in east UP’s Ballia district, Singh started writing poetry around 1952-53. He earned his doctorate in 1964 on “Imagery in modern Hindi poetry.”
In Kedarnath Singh’s poems, you can see the shape of longing, touch the burden of memory and soak in the stench of lies. The Jnanpith award recipient brought a delicate and distinctive sensibility to modern Hindi poetry and became one of its most distinguished voices.
For Singh, the past was seldom unconnected from the present and the village never unglued from the city.
The two created a human condition where ache and hope walked hand in hand, one indistinguishable from the other. It was like the old shepherd’s face that he once saw in his village and forever carried in his heart even on the streets of Delhi, as he wrote in one his poems, Gaderiye ka chehra.
