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Rustam Singh is a poet,[1] philosopher,[2] translator and editor. He writes poetry in Hindi (under the name Rustam) and theoretical and philosophical papers and essays in English.

Life and Career

Rustam Singh was born in Jadla, a small town in the state of Punjab in India, on May 16, 1955. He holds an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. degree in political science and political philosophy, respectively, from Panjab University, Chandigarh. He was awarded the University Grants Commission (UGC) Junior Research Fellowship (October 1986--September 1988) and Senior Research Fellowship (October 1988--September 1991) to carry out work for his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was "Status of Violence in the Marxist Theory of Revolution: From Marx to Mao".[3]

Over the years, Rustam Singh has held the following research and editorial positions, among others:

  • Assistant editor of Economic and Political Weekly, Bombay (1993--94);[4]
  • Research associate at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (1995--96);[5]
  • Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1996--1999);[6]
  • Editor of Summerhill IIAS Review, a journal of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1998--1999);[7]
  • Member of the editorial board of Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, a journal of Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1998--1999)[8];
  • Founder editor of Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing (along with Ashok Vajpeyi who was its general editor), a journal of Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University, then located partly at New Delhi and partly at Wardha (1999--2003);[9] and
  • Visiting scholar at Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2007).[10]

From 1905 to 1907, he was a fellow and a senior editor at Eklavya, an NGO working in the field of school education in Madhya Pradesh, India. Since 1907, he has been a senior fellow, as also a senior editor, with the same organisation.[11]

Work

Original Work

Books

Rustam Singh has published the following three collections of poetry:

  • Agyanata Se Agyanata Tak (self-published), 1981;
  • Rustam Ki Kavitayen, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2003 (ISBN: 81-8143-046-8); and
  • Teji Aur Rustam Ki Kavitayen, HarperCollins India, Noida, 2009 (ISBN: 978-81-7223-879-7). This is a two-sided, two-in-one book with independent collections of poems by two poets. The other poet in this book is Teji Grover.

Singh is also the author of the following books in English:

  • 'Weeping' and Other Essays on Being and Writing, Pratilipi Books, Jaipur, 2011 (ISBN: 978-81-920665-0-9); and
  • A Story of Political Ideas for Young Readers, Volume 1: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Eklavya, Bhopal, 2010 (ISBN: 978-81-89976-89-7).

Papers and Essays

Rustam Singh's theoretical and philosophical papers and essays include the following:

  • "Status of Violence in Marx’s Theory of Revolution", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXIV, No. 4 (January 28, 1989);[12]
  • "Restoring Revolutionary Theory: Towards an Understanding of Lenin’s The State and Revolution”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXIV, No. 43 (October 28, 1989);[13]
  • "Violence in the Leninist Revolution", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXV, No. 52 (December 29, 1990);[14]
  • "Cohen’s Second Coming: Pitfalls of Analytical Interpretation of Marx", Punjab Journal of Politics, Vol. XVII, No. 1 (June 1993);
  • "Man, Political Man, Political Theory", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXIX, No. 31 (July 30, 1994);[15]
  • "Reflections on a form", Seminar, 440 (April 1996);
  • "Ontology of wage labour", Seminar, 452 (April 1997);
  • "Feeling Politics: Reinstating the Subjective Self", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXXII, No. 33-34 (August 16--23, 1997);[16]
  • "Dialogicality and Being: A Fragment", Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. V, No. 1 (Summer 1998), IIAS, Shimla;[17]
  • " 'Weeping': For Udayan Vajpeyi", Indian Literature, No. 186 (July--August 1998);
  • "Gift, Passivity, Neuter", in Franson Manjali (ed.), Poststructuralism and Cultural Theory: The Linguistic Turn and Beyond, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2006;
  • "Useless Thought: Notes on Friedrich Nietzsche", in Franson Manjali (ed.), Nietzsche: Philologist, Philosopher and Cultural Critic, Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2006;
  • "Self and Time", Pratilipi, April 2008;[18]
  • "Death and the Self", Pratilipi, June 2008;[19]
  • "To be Regardful of the Earth", Pratilipi, August 2008;[20]
  • "To be Fortunate", Pratilipi, June 2010;[21]
  • "Beginning an Essay", Pratilipi, November 2010;[22]
  • "Simulating: The Heart Breaking", Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2012);[23] and
  • "The Roots of Violence: Jīva, Life and Other Things", in Saitya Brata Das and Soumyabrata Choudhury (eds.), The Weight of Violence: Religion, Language, Politics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2015 (ISBN: 978-0-19-945372-6).[24]

Translations of Singh's Work

Rustam Singh's poems have been translated into English, Swedish, Norwegian and Estonian. The English translations of his poems have appeared in International Quarterly, Indian Literature, and Aufgabe.[25] The Swedish translations of his poems, by the Swedish poet and novelist Agneta Pleijel, were published in the Swedish poetry magazine LyrikVannen.[26] The translations of his poems in Estonian, by the Estonian poet Doris Kareva, have appeared in the Estonian magazine Sirp.[27] Ingrid Storholmen, the Norwegian poet and novelist, gave several readings of her translations of Singh's poems during the India Festival at Trondheim, Norway, in 2011.[28]

Further, his book A Story of Political Ideas for Young Readers, Volume 1: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli has been translated into and published in Hindi.[29]

Three of his philosophical essays, namely "Remembering a Century: Mourning a Lack and a Loss of Power", "Ruptured (in) Writing", and "Jiva, Life and Other Things", too, have been translated into and published in Hindi.[30]

Translations by Rustam Singh

Rustam Singh has translated into Hindi the following books from the Norwegian:

  • (With Teji Grover) Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, under the title Hedda Gabler, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2006 (ISBN: 81-8143-622-9);
  • (With Teji Grover) Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen, under the title Master Builder, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2006 (ISBN: 81-8143-621-0);
  • A selection of poems by the Norwegian poet Olav Hauge, under the title Saat Havayen, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2008 (ISBN: 978-81-8143-956-7);[31] and
  • A selection of poems by the Norwegian poet and novelist Lars Amund Vaage, under the title Shabd Ke Peechhe Chhaya Hai, Vani Prakashan, New Delhi, 2014 (ISBN: 978-93-5072-723-2).

Readings

Apart from giving readings of his poems in India, Rustam Singh has read his poems in other countries as well. For example, in 2008 he read his poems in the international poetry festival organised by the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators, Visby, Sweden. The Swedish translations of his poems were read out by Birgitta Wallin, editor of the Swedish cultural magazine Karavan.[32] In the same year, he read his poems at the poetry festival celebrating the birth centenary of the Norwegian poet Olav Hauge at the village Ulvik in north-western Norway where Hauge had lived all his life.[33] In 2011, he read his poems during the India Festival at Trondheim, Norway.[34] Similarly, in 2014 he read his poems at the Writers House in Tallinn, Estonia, where the Estonian translations of his poems were read out by the Estonian poet Doris Kareva.[35]

References

  1. ^ See, Indien är inte längre modernt. Religion och kasttillhörighet allt viktigare för indiska medborgare, enligt Rustam Singh, http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/indien-ar-inte-langre-modernt-religion-och-kasttillhorighet-allt-viktigare. Accessed on 11 May 2015.
  2. ^ See, Kirjanduslik kolmapäev: tuhandevärvine kivi, http://www.kultuur.info/syndmus/kirjanduslik-kolmapaev-tuhandevarvine-kivi/, accessed on 11 May 2015. Also see, Indien är inte längre modernt. Religion och kasttillhörighet allt viktigare för indiska medborgare, enligt Rustam Singh, http://www.dn.se/arkiv/kultur/indien-ar-inte-langre-modernt-religion-och-kasttillhorighet-allt-viktigare. Accessed on 11 May 2015.
  3. ^ Rustam Singh, "Status of Violence in the Marxist Theory of Revolution: From Marx to Mao", unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Department of Political Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 1991.
  4. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  5. ^ See, ibid.
  6. ^ See, ibid. Also see, Fellows of the Institute, http://iias.ac.in/oldwebsite/earchive_fellows_1.html, accessed om 8 May 2015.
  7. ^ See, Summerhill IIAS Review, Vol. IV, No. 2 (December 1998) and Vol. V, No. 1 (June 1999).
  8. ^ See, http://www.iias.org/sites/default/files/article/SHSS%201998%20%281%29.pdf; http://www.iias.org/sites/default/files/article/SHSS%201998%20%282%29.pdf; and http://www.iias.org/sites/default/files/article/SHSS%201999%20%281%29.pdf, accessed on 8 May 2015.
  9. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/rustam-singh/, and Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April--June 2000) to Vol. 3, No. 1 (April-June 2002), New Delhi.
  10. ^ See, List of Visiting Professor/Fellow/Scholar in Centre for Philosophy,http://www.jnu.ac.in/SSS/CP/VisitingFaculty.htm, accessed on 8 May 2015.
  11. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  12. ^ Also see, http://www.epw.in/review-political-economy/status-violence-marx-s-theory.html, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  13. ^ Also see, http://www.epw.in/special-articles/restoring-revolutionary-theory-towards-understanding-lenin-s-state-and-revolutionpd, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  14. ^ Also see, http://www.epw.in/special-articles/violence-leninist-revolution.html, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  15. ^ Also see, http://www.epw.in/perspectives/man-political-man-political-theory.html, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  16. ^ Also see, http://www.epw.in/perspectives/feeling-politics-reinstating-subjective-self.html, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  17. ^ Also see, http://www.iias.org/sites/default/files/article/SHSS%201998%20%281%29.pdf, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  18. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/2008/04/self-and-time-rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  19. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/2008/06/death-and-the-self-rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  20. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/2008/08/to-be-regardful-of-the-earth-rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  21. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/2010/06/to-be-fortunate-rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  22. ^ See, http://pratilipi.in/2011/11/beginning-an-essay-rustam-singh/ Accessed on 8 May 2015.
  23. ^ Also see, http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/ccp.4.2.r023p2w06410342t. Accessed on 9 May 2015.
  24. ^ Also see, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-weight-of-violence-9780199453726?cc=in&lang=en&#, accessed on 9 May 2015.
  25. ^ International Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1998); Indian Literature, No. 158 (November--December 1993) and No. 251 (May--June 2009); and Aufgabe, No. 13 (2014); for Aufgabe, also see http://www.litmuspress.org/aufgabe-13/ Accessed on 9 May 2015.
  26. ^ LyrikVannen, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2006).
  27. ^ Sirp, No. 1 (3521), 9 January 2015.
  28. ^ See, India 2011 NTNU, Section on Poetry, http://www.ntnu.no/india-2011/?cat=11&lang=en, accessed om 8 May 2015.
  29. ^ See, Rajneetik Vicharon Ki Kahani: Yuva Pathkon Ke Liye, Bhaag-1: Sukrat, Plato, Arastu, Makyaveli, Eklavya, Bhopal, 2012 (ISBN: 978-93-81300-09-1). Translated by: Sandeep Rauji.
  30. ^ See, "Ek Sadi Ka Smarn", Poorvagraha, No. 111 (December 1998--February 1999); "Lekhan Mein Dwibhaajan: Dwibhaajit Lekhan", Bahuvachan, Vol. 2, No. 3 (April--June 2000); and "Hinsa Ke Mool: Jeev, Jeevan Aur Anya Cheezen", Bahuvachan, No. 44 (January--March 2015).
  31. ^ See also, Delhi mesmerised with Norwegian ‘Seven Winds’, http://www.norwayemb.org.in/ARKIV/Old_web/culture/cooperation/unni_concert/#.VVD_ofCde_Q, accessed on 11 May 2015.
  32. ^ See, http://www.bcwt.org/servlet/GetDoc?meta_id=1962. Accessed on 10 May 2015.
  33. ^ See, Ulvik Poesifestival 08, Program, 17–21 September (2008), p. 17.
  34. ^ See, India 2011 NTNU, Section on Indian Poetry, http://www.ntnu.no/india-2011/?cat=11&lang=en. Accessed on 10 May 2015.
  35. ^ See, Kirjanduslik kolmapäev: tuhandevärvine kivi, http://www.kultuur.info/syndmus/kirjanduslik-kolmapaev-tuhandevarvine-kivi/, accessed on 10 May 2015.
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