Charu Sheel Singh

Charu Sheel Singh (, 15 May 1955- 3 May 2021) was an Indian writer and scholar of English language. A treader of the triple path walked by the past great poets Matthew Arnold, T. S. Eliot and Sri Aurobindo, Charu Sheel Singh was a poet, critic and literary theorist. He was not only well acquainted with current schools of thought but also conversant with philosophical theories of the East and the West and the occult traditions, Buddhism and theosophy being among his special areas of interest. He was well known for writing poems and criticism in English. He was a professor of English literature in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth. He received the ''Maharashtra Dalit Sahitya Akademy Award'' and The Best Writer Award by Penguin International.

He is one of the mythifiers of the city of Varanasi and his ''Kashi'': A Mandala Poem is the only epic in English language on the city of ''Kashi.'' Provided by Wikipedia