Kedarnath Singh was a man who could make the most mundane things seem precious to the extent where you could relate to them both emotionally and aesthetically. There was beauty even in the simplest of actions he would write about. He was a renowned Hindi poet, essayist and critique who began his journey of writing in the year 1952.

Post his degrees, Singh had tried his hand on lyrics, and while working on the same, he got familiar with the modern poetic sensibility and its aesthetic insights. This happened after he translated the famous poem called "Freedom" written by the French poet Paul Elluard. This work caught the attention of the Hindi literary world after Sachchidanand Hiranand Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’, an esteemed Hindi litterateur added his poems in Teesara Saptak. For Kedarnath Singh, this was a big new turn in his life. He never turned back after that, soon there were great amounts of work being published by him.

Then came whirling around a bundle of poems that have made him stand as the eminent personality he is. Some of his most notable works consist of the poem Baagh, Zameen Pak Rahi Hai, Akaal Mein Saaras, and Tolstoy aur Cycle. This list of wonderful poems keep going on and many are a fan of his works.

All these poems were delicately humane in nature. Singh had the ability to make his poems sound surprisingly conversational along with beautiful connotations that would have a big impact on the reader. His authenticity lied in his humanistic and naturistic approach. His poems would not start with a serious depiction or the subject matter in question, but by the time one got done with reading, they would be left with a deep realisation of a lot many things.

In his poems you could hear a tree grow over days, an essential yet quiet conversation of a father to his son, the normalcy of a sunny day with people going around. He was very thorough with the way he put his words into verses, so much that replacing one word would make a line lose its essence. There was a need for the world to get better with a blend of how humans can be good and bad in their own hidden ways.

He also spent some of his time being a Hindi teacher in an elementary school in Gorakhpur. He however left shortly after and went ahead to become a professor in the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kedarnath Singh passed away on 19th March 2018 but his works still remain vastly read. From daily chores to a lover's desire to see their beloved, his works are the liveliest of creations that should be celebrated endlessly. Here's to the mud, wind, gushing water, road chatter, a swarm of bees, and the many nuances of life that caught your poetic eye.