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Ram Krishna Singh is a
university professor whose main fields of interest consist of Indian
English writing, especially poetry, and English for Specific Purposes,
especially for science and technology. He was born on
A reviewer, critic and contemporary
poet who writes in Indian English, Dr. Singh is the author of more than 145
research articles and 160 book reviews. He has published 32 books, including : Savitri : A Spiritual Epic (Criticism,
1984); My Silence (poems,
1985); Sound and Silence
(edited articles on Krishna Srinivas, 1986); Indian English Writing : 1981-1985 : Experiments with Expression (ed.,
1987, rept. 1991); Using English in Science and Technology (textbook, 1988, rev.
and rept, 2000); Recent Indian English Poets : Expressions and Beliefs (ed. 1992); Two Poets: R.K. Singh (I
DO NOT QUESTION) Ujjal Singh Bahri
(THE GRAMMAR OF MY LIFE)
(poems, 1994); General English
Practice (textbook, 1995); Writing
Your Thesis and Research Papers (1996); Anger in Action : Explorations of Anger in Indian Writing in English (ed.,1997);
My Silence and Other Selected Poems
: 1974-1994 (poems, 1996); Above the
Earth’s Green (poems, 1997); Psychic
Knot : Search for Tolerance in Indian English Fiction (ed., 1998); New Zealand Literature : Some Recent Trends
(ed.,1998); Every Stone Drop Pebble
(haiku, 1999); Multiple-Choice General
English for UPSC Competitive Exams (textbook, 2001); Cover to Cover (poems, 2002). Pacem in Terris ( haiku, English and Italian, 2003), Communication : Grammar and Composition ( textbook, 2003), Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri : Essays on
Love, Life and Death ( Critical articles, 2005), Teaching English for Specific Purposes : An Evolving Experience
( Research articles and review essays, 2005), Voices of the Present: Critical Essays on Some Indian English Poets
(2006), and The River Returns (tanka and haiku collection, 2006). His works have been
anthologized in about 150 publications, while his editorial activities extend
to include guest-editing of Language
Forum, 1986, 1995, and Creative
Forum, 1991, 1997, 1998, besides being co-editor of the latter
publication from 1987-90, General Editor of Creative Forum New Poets Series,
and service on the editorial boards of Canopy,
Indian Book Chronicle, Indian
Journal of Applied Linguistics,
Reflections, Titiksha,
International Journal of Translation, Poetcrit, and
SlugFest. He
has also edited the ISM Newsletter
for about five years.
His poems have been translated into French,
Spanish, Romanian, Chinese, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Japanese, Bulgarian,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Esperanto, Kannada, Tamil, and Bangla. Forty two full-length articles on his poetry have
been published from 1988-2005. A book, on his poetry, New Indian English Poetry: An Alternative Voice: R.K.Singh
(ed: I.K. Sharma, 2004), is a
comprehensive presentation of his creativity since the 1970s. His
works have been explored in one M.Phil and five Ph.D.
theses of various universities.
In recognition of his achievements Professor
Singh has received several awards and honours, among
them an Honorary LittD from the World Academy of Arts
and Culture, Taiwan, 1984, Fellowship of the International Poets Academy,
Madras, 1987, Fellowship of the International Writers and Artists Association,
USA, the Michael Madhusudan Award, Calcutta, 1994,
Poet of the Year Award, 1995 from the Canadian Alumni of the World University,
Ontario, Ritsumeikan University Peace Museum Award,
Kyoto, 1999, and Certificate of Honour and Prize in
Kumamoto International Kusamamoto Haiku Competition,
Japan, 2000. He has also been a Universal Peace Ambassador (appointed by the Universal Peace
Embassy,
Professor Singh is a member of the following organizations:
UNESCO ALSED-LSP Network; All-India PEN; English Language Teachers’ Association
of India;
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