Dr Singh said that

I collected around 40 quotes by Dr. A K Singh during my two years of MA. I used to jot down any statement by Dr Singh that appealed me in my notebook.Enjoy.


1)"I don't do anything puposelessly."

2)"Life is very simple..Our problem is that we make it complicated.
who said it?...Buddha..."

3)"Our department does not produce mediocres...It produces either fully sane individuals or fully insane."

4) “My problem is that my students take me seriously when I am light”

5) “ A good student must be like a monkey. Am I right? Have you ever observed the way a monkey eats?”

6) “ Poetry is ‘thought and art in one’ I didn’t say it. Who said it?...It was idiot Matthew Arnold”

7) “Philosophers and mathematicians also fall in love…!...see the irony….Kant lost one world but for him another world was still there. You see, that was the difference …the difference between Kant and those idiots.”

8) “Tell me if I am boring you. I am doing the most sinful thing by doing so.”

9) “ If they(Refering to students who have bunked the class) are not doing more creative work outside then they should waste their time inside the class-room…instead of roaming on the campus…”

10) “ Criticism is very systematic. Once you go through it, then there is no problem”

11) “ Kids become very busy when their parents start talking about throwing old baggage.”

12) “ All these _isms( referring to Socialism, Communism etc) have short life. If the writer thinks of them while writing a book then it may create problem.”

13) “ We (Indians) are masters of duplicates.”

14) Every book has at least something for us to add.”

15. “ Is this point clear to you or you just nod your heads because you are tired and want to get rid of this point?”

16) “ My professor used to say if you don’t agree with the author, you should read the book again.”

17) “ Not understood? ….Confused?... Very good. Now let us understand Wordsworth bt making him complicated.”

18) “ If you want to do something in everything, you will end up with nothing, but if you wish to do something in onething, you can do anything.”

19) “ Today I feel mentally tired…tired and not retarted…!”
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20) "These swamijis and priests can afford living on fruits. We can't."

21) "In western, people take side honestly, they are less hypocritical. We tend to live pragmatically."

22) "If you want to understand life, Buddha will help you. Nobody else."

23) "Roderigo was an utter fool, and all those who are in onesided love-affairs are fools"

24) "He(pointing to a student) is always mentally absent in the class...personally I don't dislike it,but do something creative while being absent the class-room"

25) "The problem with me(while learning computer basics) is that when the computer doesn't obey my command, I feel like breaking it."

26) "Things cannot be simpler than this. Many have commited suicide while learning Structuralism and Post-structuralism and many have done the samething while teaching it."

27) "How igoistical these people(Nehru, Jinnah...etc) were to serve the country! It is pity that
after indipendence the reign of our country fell in the hands of such people instead of the people like Chandrashekhar Azad, Bhagat Shingh,..Had it been so, the histo ry of India would have been diffent. But we can't do anything except discussing and making guesses."

28) " The problem is that you(students)don't read original essays(novels, poems etc)...and after all why you should read originals when your servants(guide wrriters..Raja Rao etc) are reading and explaining them to you"

29) "The paraphrase will always be at right side in your guides, as in life wrong things are always at right side."

30) "Don't look at my face. You will find ambiguity there all the time."

31) " You forget so early, so old things seem new."

32) "Whatever you are confused for, ask me. Don't remain confused."

33) " We should not complete 'Preface to Shakespeare' in just one day because if we did so, Dr Johnson will be angry with us."

34) "Whatever you do after MA is additional."


34) "(Pointing to medals on the cup-board in his chamber) These medals, you see, are not mine. One of my former students gave them to me to keep...Otherwise I have never won anything in life."