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'''Charu Sheel Singh''' ({{lang-hi|चारु शील सिंह}}, 15 May 1955- 3 May 2021) was an Indian writer and scholar of [[English language|English]] language. A treader of the triple path walked by the past great poets Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot and Sri Aurobindo, Charu Sheel Singh was a poet, critic and literary theorist. He was not only well acquainted with current schools of thought but also conversant with philosophical theories of the East and the West and the occult traditions, Buddhism and theosophy being among his special areas of interest. He was well known for writing poems and criticism in [[English language|English]]. He was a professor of [[English literature]] in [[Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth]]. He received the ''Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Akademy Award'' and The Best Writer Award by Penguin International.<br />
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He is one of the best mythifiers of the city of [[Varanasi]] and his ''Kashi'': A Mandala Poem is the only epic in English language on the city of ''Kashi''<ref name="rajnishmishravns">{{cite web |url=https://rajnishmishravns.wordpress.com/2017/06/24/kashi-a-mandala-poem/|title=Kashi: A Mandala Poem|author=rajnishmishravns |date= 2017|publisher= |access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Charu Sheel Singh was born on 15 May 1955. His father, Pratap Narayan Singh was a ''Sahitya Ratna'' and a Poet. He took his master's degree in English from [[Aligarh Muslim University]] in 1976. In 1978, he was awarded Ph.D. degree in English by [[Banaras Hindu University]]. He was married to Maya and they have a son Padmasambhava. He passed away due to complication arising from asthma on 3 May 2021.<br />
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==Legacy==<br />
Kashi: A Mandala Poem, published in 2007, is considered as one of the very few epics in English on a city. It synthesizes puranic myths with modern science and postmodern theory to create a modern-day epic. It is written in a modern language, with an ancient tradition flowing into the veins of the City Eternal: Varanasi.<br />
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Charu Sheel Singh is also known for his unique style of bringing philosophy, yoga and tantra to visit poetry and myths. His poetry is full of instances of this happy confluence of modern with ancient, of traditional with personal and of myths with quantum theory.<br />
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Charu Sheel Singh has been reviewed in commonwealth literature, USA. He is also reviewed in a quarterly journal BLAKE from Rochester University.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Jackson|first1=Mary V.|title=Charu Sheel Singh. The Chariot of Fire: A Study of William Blake in the Light of Hindu Thought|url=http://bq.blakearchive.org/18.2.jackson|website=blakearchive.org|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref> His book Contemporary Literary Theory is listed in Reader's Guide To English Literature published by Routledge publishers, Abingdon, United Kingdom. His originality and strength of mythical imagination has led poetry lovers to work upon his poetry.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Srivastava|first1=Preeti Bala|title=THE POETRY OF CHARU SHEEL SINGH: A STUDY IN PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSIONS|url=http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/111131/3/1%20front%20pages.pdf|website=shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in|access-date=24 June 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| url = <br />
| title = Literary Theory: Possibilities and Limits<br />
| author = Charu Sheel Singh<br />
| year = 1991<br />
| publisher = BR Publishing Corporation <br />
| isbn = 978-8170186632<br />
}}<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| url = <br />
| title = Confederate gestures, search for method in Indian literature studies<br />
| author = Charu Sheel Singh<br />
| year = 1993<br />
| publisher = Associated Pub. House<br />
| isbn = 978-8170450825<br />
}}<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| url = <br />
| title = Concentric Imagination: Mandala Literary Theory<br />
| author = Charu Sheel Singh<br />
| year = 1994<br />
| publisher = South Asia Books <br />
| isbn = 978-8170187769<br />
}}<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| url = <br />
| title = Auguries of Evocation: British Poetry During and After the Movement<br />
| author = Charu Sheel Singh<br />
| year = 1998<br />
| publisher = Associated Pub. House<br />
| isbn = 978-8170450023<br />
}}<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| url = <br />
| title = Kashi: A Mandala Poem <br />
| author = Charu Sheel Singh<br />
| year = 2007<br />
| publisher = Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors<br />
| isbn = 978-8184350296<br />
}}<br />
* {{cite book<br />
| url = <br />
| title = Charu Sheel Singh: Collected Poems 1975-2003<br />
| author = Charu Sheel Singh<br />
| year = 2011<br />
| publisher = Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors<br />
| isbn = 978-8184350456<br />
}}<br />
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==Edited Works==<br />
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* ''Exiled Among Natives'' (2013) eds. by Prof. Charu Sheel Singh, Dr. Binod Mishra and published by Adhyayan Publishers, [[New Delhi]]<br />
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==Awards and recognitions==<br />
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* Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Akademy Award<br />
* The Best Writer Award, Penguin International<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[List of Indian English poetry anthologies]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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