Prof. Udaya Narayana Singh

A poet-linguist-essayist and translation theoretician, Udaya Narayana Singh currently holds a Chair-Professorship at the Amity University Haryana at Gurgaon, where he is also the Dean, Faculty of Arts. He held a Professorial Chair at Rabindra Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan (2009-16) where he was also the first Pro-Vice-Chancellor (2010-12). He was the Director of India’s premier institution in Linguistics – Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore (2000-09; www.ciil.org). He had also set up for the Government of India, the National Translation Mission (NTM), the Linguistic Data Consortium for Indian Languages (LDC-IL) and the National Testing Service (NTS). At the University of Hyderabad, he established what is now one of the most vibrant centers of Linguistics and Translation, called the CALTS, or Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. He taught at the Universities of Delhi, Hyderabad, Baroda, Surat & Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.

 

He published poems, plays and essays in Maithili, Bangla and Hindi, translated many and published over 250 research papers. He received the coveted Sahitya Akademi Award 2017 for poetry. His latest books includeThe Other India: View From Below (2022, Sahitya Akademi, jointly with Rajarshi Singh), Sukumar Sen: The Great Chronicler of Time (2023) and a play in Maithili: Antigone Ekavingshat (2023). He also produced 545 documentaries on language and literature of Bangla, Tamil,Kannada and Marathi.