Contemporary Literary Review India | Print ISSN 2250-3366 | Online ISSN 2394-6075 | Vol. 7, No. 2: CLRI May 2020

Dr R P Singh

Dr R P Singh is a Professor of English at the Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Lucknow. Professor Singh is an award winning playwright and poet. His plays; Flea Market and other Plays (2014), Ecologue (2014), When Brancho Flies (2014), Shakespeare ki Saat Ratein (2015), and Antardwand (2016) have received critical acclaim, and wide popularity. Banjaran : The Muse (2008),Cloud ,Moon and a Little Girl (2017), Pathik and Pravah (2016) and Neeli Aankhon Wali Ladki (2017), Adventures of Funny and Bana (2018) represent his poetry.

He is the recipient of Swami Vivekanand Youth Award – Life Time Achievement 2020, Mohan Rakesh Puraskar (2016), Saraswat Samman (2018), S. M. Sinha Smiriti Award (2017) and Bhartendu Harischandra Award (2017) for his creative writing. Other awards conferred upon him include-Shikshak Shree Samman, Government of U.P. (2015) for innovations in teaching, and commendable contribution in Higher Education, Dr. Baba Saheb Prize for Excellence, 2011 and Dr. Ambedkar Fellowship Award – 2006.

Project Penultimate

A soft concurrence

and a murmur

the sinews and veins

in unison

raise tone

showing black strip,

coughs the sense up

in black soot.

Why this exasperating stuff

all mundane work for extra pennies’ sake

or the worldly listing

of fame!

Why the tranquillity

muffled and choked

and the senses

tortured and tensed .

The fellow traveller

looks with a qualm

a mixed rasa

often some balm.

A cocktail of perspectives

desires

and attitude

I drink.

I see the project penultimate

the last journey alone.

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