Sachidanand Sinha

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Sachidanand Sinha (born on 31 October 1937 at Saramohanpur, Bihar, India) is a Hindi poet. He is the author of the poetry collections Aaathwan Din and Dasham Rasa.

Sinha graduated with a degree in English Literature from C M Arts College, Darbhanga and obtained his post-graduation degree from Langat Singh College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar in 1957. Immediately after completing his post-graduation, he was appointed an English lecturer at his alma mater, C M Arts College. From 1963 to 1996, he worked for the Indian Administrative Service.

Though Sinha has been writing since late 1950s, his first poetry collection Aathwan Din was published only in 1995.^[1] The Hindi critic Namvar Singh has described his poetry as something that "goes beyond the boundaries of the conventional Hindi poetic idiom and sensibility".^{[citation needed]} Sinha has been highly influenced by modern Western literature and the medieval Hindi poetry of Mirabai and Kabir. His poetry has also been seen as meditations on the concept of time. Time for Sinha is spatial, though the linearity of time as perceived by the common man and woman is also important for him. He has also written an unpublished long poem in English on the 2002 Gujarat violence, Darkness Lit by Night.

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