INTERVIEW OF ARBIND KUMAR CHOUDHARY WITH DR.ASHOK K.YADAV, ASSOCIATE PROF. OF ENGLISH,ARTS COLLEGE, SHYAMALAJI, GUJARAT,INDIA.

Arbind Kumar Choudhary who has been awarded with the crown of Universal Ambassador of Peace from Poetry in 2017  by Gabrielle Simond, the president of Geneva based duo organizations—Universal Circle of the Ambassadors  of Peace & Universal Embassy of Peace -has been popularly called the  pioneer of the Phrasal  Movement  and  Indianised Version of Arbindonean Sonnets  in  Indian English  poetry  for the spiritual whirlwind  for Tom,Dick and Harry in general and the versifiers in particular inspite of the materialistic monarchy infecting the society.He  has been perfuming  the  poetic passage  with his nine poetry collections in English, dozens  of  literary awards  in America, China, Geneva  and  India, and, above all, more  than  sixty interviews published in Malta, Romania, Albania and India.His Arbindonean Racy Style of Versification, cluster of the phrasal passages and Indianised Version of  Arbindonean Sonnets  speak volumes about his magnetic poetic personality in Indian English poetry.

Dr.Choudhary  who  has been incorporated  in Cambridge Dictionary of English Writers  in England,Penny Poetry in America, World Poetry Almanac in Mongolia ,World Poetry Yearbook  in China, Four Indian English Poets in Romania  and Sahitya Akademi  in Delhi  has been included as an  editorial  board  member of  a  number of  literary journals   in America,Tunisia, Nigeria and several literary journals  of India.Mahatma Gandhi Education and Welfare Society sponsored maiden national poetry award entitled Phrasal King Arvind Choudhary National Poetry Award 2018  has been instituted to honour an Indian English poet annually  for the promotion of English verses in India  that has been given to Dr.Brajesh Kumar Gupta  Mewadev of Banda,U.P  on 17th February 2018 in the International Seminar held at Bharat Ratna  Maulana  Abul Kalam Azad Research Center,Aurangabad,India.

Q 1 : When did you start writing ?

AKC: Versification has become my  passion rather than profession that comes out as naturally as the water flow of the river. I have been composing verses and turning in to pieces for want of proper atmosphere of flourishment around my surrounding. But the germs of creation that  was planted long ago  through the Hindi poems of great poets -Dinkar, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Verma, Jay Shankar Prasad  and many others started to flourish with the passage of time while started the job of a lecturer in a college. I  have not seen behind since the publication of  Eternal Voices, maiden poetry book, in 2007 that has been followed by eight more poetry collections.

Q2: Who are your biggest inspirators/ your favourite writers ?

AKC : Shakespeare, Milton , Spenser, John Keats and several  English others have remained  the  captivating  spirits while Tagore, Aurobindo, Ezekiel ,Sarojini Naidu, and  Kamala Das from Indian English poetry, Kalidas from  Sanskrit  literature  and  Dinkar, Maithli  Sharan  Gupta, Jayshankar  Prasad, Mahadevi  Verma   and  several others  from  Hindi  literature have been adding fuel to the poetic flames  from  time  to  time.

Q3: What time of day do you do most of your writing ?

  AKC: Morning  is  the  spring  for the  creative  wing  because  silence becomes  the  monarch  during  morning period.

Q4: Why do you write ?

AKC :  Versification that runs wild from one day to another is the emotional eruption rather than mechanisation.It is my passion rather than profession that sends  my creative  spirits in the seventh heaven.

Q5 : Do you have any favourite quotes from writers ?

AKC :  The most striking quote that haunts me time and again for the sake of the deprived voices of the world community as a whole is  quoted from The Elegy of Thomas Gray.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert.

Q6: What is one piece of advice you would give new/aspiring writers ?

AKC : The essence of patience will knock your  door sooner or later in literature.The essence of patience breeds florescence of conscience sooner or later before the last resting place .

Q7: Do you have any collections chapbooks ?

Or other books available for people to purchase ?

AKC :  Here lies a list of published poetry collections.

1.Eternal  Voices,2007,PBD,Bareilly,UP

2.Universal  Voices,2008, IAPEN,Begusarai.

3.My Songs,2008,IAPEN,Begusarai.

4.Melody, 2009, IAPEN,Begusarai.