Kashinath Singh

Kashinath Singh

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Kashinath Singh Profile

  • Name:
  • Kashinath Singh
  • Born:
  • January 1, 1937

Kashinath Singh Biography

Kashinath Singh is an Indian writer and scholar of Hindi language, best known for fiction writing. He authors novels and short stories in Hindi. He is also an academician who had a long term association with Banaras Hindu University till his retirement. He was a professor of Hindi language. Kashinath is the younger brother of noted writer Namvar Singh, best known as a progressive literary critic, apart from being a scholar, linguist, academician and theoretician, and a Sahitya Akademi Award winner too. Younger brother too is a recipient of prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. He received the Kendra Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his celebrated novel Rehan Par Ragghu, one of the best chroniclers of the city of Varanasi. Kashi Ka Assi and Kahni Upkhan are other major works.

 

Kashinath Singh hails from Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. Jiyanpur is his hometown, and he was born on the New Year day of 1937 into an agriculture family. Noted writer Doodhnath Singh is his relative. His early education was completed from his village, and then he moved to Varanasi for higher studies. He studied at Banaras Hindu University to complete his graduation, Master’s as well as PhD in Hindi literature. Then he started his professional career as a lecturer at BHU in 1965 and was associated with the university till his retirement. He retired as HOD of Hindi department.  

 

As a writer, he is best known for his fictional works. Yet many of his works have glimpses of reality as well as some major cultural events and change of social life. Rehan Par Ragghu is the best instance. He is a recipient of Sharad Joshi Samman, Sahitya Bhushan, Bharat Bharti Award, Katha Samman, Rajbhasha Samman and many more honours. Kashi Ka Assi published in 2004 is one of his major works. A Bollywood movie, Mohalla Assi is an adapted script of this novel, which included real people and real conversations too.

 

Published: September 26, 2018

Updated: September 26, 2018

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