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
MY
FIRST TIME :
Anthony Powell Society Newsletter (100) Summer 2025
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2026
I have submitted a long essay to to the AP Society on Powell's Temporary Kings.
NOW, Summer 26, I am trying to write a philosophical essay on my recent experience of cancer & treatment.
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EARLIER PROJECTS
2025
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THE AKRASIA PROJECT Book 7 of Aristotle's Ethics : one of the most fruitful human documents ever. I slowly completed an interlinear translation last year. (Then I got diverted by Shakespeare and Fournier). I intend to start restudying the text and decide what new formatting might be interesting and useful. |
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ZOOLOGY PROJECT This is to complement the Brick Project done during Covid. I began it last Autumn but am making very slow progress : for diversions. |
| (3) | A REVOLUTIONARY RECORD I might write on a favourite LP! |
| (4) | SHAKESPEARE
I hope my 2024 essay will develop discussion. |
LAST PUBLICATION : 2021
GUILT has 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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2019 - 2024
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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.
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| (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.
2024 THE SHAKESPEARE'S HESITATIONS
PROJECT
Then I made
contact with old French teacher AM, who had been very kind
to me in the 20C! I was encouraged by her renewed
warmth to read my first ever novel -in-French Le Grand
Meaulnes and to write an essay on it. Both were truly
wonderful experiences that I had thought for decades that
I'd never have. AM praised the essay and was extraordinarily
hospitable to me when I visited her.
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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. |