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Dhananjay Singh

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Dhananjay Singh teaches at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and is currently the Member Secretary of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.His research and teaching are focused on aesthetics, philosophy of language, comparative literature, English poetry, and modern Irish literature. His columns have appeared in The Indian Express, The Times of India, The Pioneer, and The Sunday Guardian. His poems have been published in Muse India. His debut short story “The Train and the Tunnel” was published in The Bombay Review. Recently, his poem “Farewell to My Father” was published in Gifts of Rain, an anthology commemorating the great Indian Poet Jayant Mahapatra, edited by Ashwani Kumar. He is currently working on his debut short story collection.

Poems by Dhananjay Singh

Once in my childhood in this small town
superlative trees towered high above
covering the burning sun
spreading cool shadows;
birds chittered and quarrelled and littered,
now concrete structures loomed high above