BIOGRAPHY

I am Kalu Singh (full name Kalu Iqbal Singh Nannar). I was born in
India and came to England as a child. My fitful studies at college included chemical physics, philosophy and English. In 84 I trained to be a school-teacher but then decided to work as a civil servant. In 93, I trained as a counsellor and worked both at a university counselling service and in private practice.  I retired in 2012. As well as reeling and writhing, some of my dwindling twilight time is spent trying to learn the orthodox stroke at snooker, and lesson-one at the guitar, having failed at lesson 2 at piano.   

Some more about me can be found in this link : Unusual Notes for an Autobiography 

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PUBLICATIONS

GUILT (2000: Icon) 
This was chosen as one of The Guardian Books of the Year

SUBLIMATION (2001 : Icon)

Both of these have been translated into several languages including Spanish & Croatian.  

These books are available through the Icon site at www.iconbooks.co.uk  

A Scholarly Note on "The Pig-Baby in Alice in Wonderland" , The Carrollian: The Lewis Carroll Journal : No 31 : 2018


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 2024 : THIS  NEW YEAR

 

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  THE SHAKESPEARE'S HESITATIONS PROJECT
 To produce an essay and a suggestion for performance on the subject of structural hesitation in/by Shakespeare.
 I've thought about this for a dozen years. But it only all came together this Spring.
 I've sent the draft to a famous poet-critic and a famous novelist-critic. 
 

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  THE AKRASIA PROJECT
 To produce an interlinear text of Book 7 of Aristotle's Ethics : one of the most fruitful human documents ever.
 I've been doing this very slowly since last Spring : because I got diverted by the project below.

 (3)    THE FRENCH PROJECT
 This is an old man's attempt to honour his pre-teen-Self's innocent desire to learn French: which failed at 16.
 My chosen methodology was/is to produce an interlinear text of Queneau's masterpiece Exercices de Style.
 
It has taken nine very enjoyable months to produce the first draft. 
 I will upload the final draft in the summer.

 (4)    THE NEW PROJECT is yet undecided
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LAST PUBLICATION :  2021

GUILT has recently been published in Farsi/Persian in Iran.

Publisher's website https://www.arjmandpub.com/

Alas, I cannot read Farsi. My father could: but alas, alas, he is dead.

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SOME EARLIER YEARS  2019 - 2023

 

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Autumn  2019 

 I completed  the first draft of a new book, working title, FOUR SIMPLE TOOLS FOR BETTER THINKING FOR JOY AND KINDNESS     or      SOME CHARACTER TYPES MET WITH IN CONVERSATION AND THEIR THEORIES OF PLEASURE

The Pandemic has, unsurprisingly, delayed attempts to find a publisher for this in 2022

 (2) Autumn 2020 

An essay on The Magnificent Ambersons : book & film masterpieces 

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March 2021 

An essay celebrating the originality of Marc Bolan & Steve Peregrine Took's first three albums as Tyrannosaurus RexI 

 (4)   April  2021 

An essay on The Geometry of Snooker : and the need for a training protocol of the best First 21 shots a novice/anyone  should practise, perhaps using what might be called a training-cloth. In the first Lockdown I wrote about Snooker being the most ethically honourable game invented.

 

 (5)   February 2022

I am thinking again of Sue Townsend's brilliance at locating the power of sexual cathexes : I offer the University of Leicester some money for a prize. 

 (6)  Spring 2022,

I completed the First Draft of a book on the very first dialogue by Plato Euthyphro.   I have also produced a comparative translation of the Greek text (in my protocol) 

.This complements my website devoted to the next dialogue,   Apology.  Here is the link:  http://www.philosophykal.co.uk/AP

ROWE, Professor Christopher Rowe,  a world authority on Plato and Penguin Texts translator,  showed me astonishing intellectual grace by reading this draft carefully and sending me some encouraging remarks. 

 (7) Autumn 2021 - Summer 2022

THE BRICK PROJECT  : This was an exploration of the idea of a brick in human history : from a scientific &  architectural and  political perspective. 

 (8)  January 2022 - December 2022

ARISTOTLE'S POETICS 

My attempt to read this Greek : using  my translation protocol. A wonderful experience.

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February 2022 - December 2023

THE FOREIGN SONGS LOVED IN CHILDHOOD PROJECT

All of us have memories of songs in unknown languages which somehow captivated one is childhood and never let go. It is quite rare to learn the words properly in later life. This is my attempt.    

Oct 2023, I wrote a review of Dylan's  startlingly original music comment/criticism The Philosophy of Modern Song. I was asked to speak about it at The Cambridge Bob Dylan Society.

 

2007

 

  My first attempt to devise an interlinear translation protocol : for Dante's The Divine Comedy.

The translator Barbara Reynolds was impressed and encouraging. The Italian Cultural Institute London were interested but did not offer support.