Arbind Kumar Choudhary who has been awarded with the crown of Universal Ambassador of Peace from Poetry in 2017&nbsp; by Gabrielle Simond, the president of Geneva based duo organizations—Universal Circle of the Ambassadors&nbsp; of Peace &amp; Universal Embassy of Peace -has been popularly called the&nbsp; pioneer of the Phrasal&nbsp; Movement&nbsp; and&nbsp; Indianised Version of Arbindonean Sonnets&nbsp; in&nbsp; Indian English&nbsp; poetry&nbsp; for the spiritual whirlwind&nbsp; for Tom,Dick and Harry in general and the versifiers in particular inspite of the materialistic monarchy infecting the society.He&nbsp; has been perfuming&nbsp; the&nbsp; poetic passage&nbsp; with his nine poetry collections in English, dozens&nbsp; of&nbsp; literary awards&nbsp; in America, China, Geneva&nbsp; and&nbsp; India, and, above all, more&nbsp; than&nbsp; sixty interviews published in Malta, Romania, Albania and India.His Arbindonean Racy Style of Versification, cluster of the phrasal passages and Indianised Version of&nbsp; Arbindonean Sonnets&nbsp; speak volumes about his magnetic poetic personality in Indian English poetry. Dr.Choudhary&nbsp; who&nbsp; has been incorporated&nbsp; in Cambridge Dictionary of English Writers&nbsp; in England,Penny Poetry in America, World Poetry Almanac in Mongolia ,World Poetry Yearbook&nbsp; in China, Four Indian English Poets in Romania&nbsp; and Sahitya Akademi&nbsp; in Delhi&nbsp; has been included as an&nbsp; editorial&nbsp; board&nbsp; member of&nbsp; a&nbsp; number of&nbsp; literary journals &nbsp; in America,Tunisia, Nigeria and several literary journals&nbsp; of India.Mahatma Gandhi Education and Welfare Society sponsored maiden national poetry award entitled Phrasal King Arvind Choudhary National Poetry Award 2018&nbsp; has been instituted to honour an Indian English poet annually&nbsp; for the promotion of English verses in India&nbsp; that has been given to Dr.Brajesh Kumar Gupta&nbsp; Mewadev of Banda,U.P&nbsp; on 17th February 2018 in the International Seminar held at Bharat Ratna&nbsp; Maulana&nbsp; Abul Kalam Azad Research Center,Aurangabad,India. Q 1 : When did you start writing ? AKC: Versification has become my&nbsp; 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&nbsp; was planted long ago&nbsp; through the Hindi poems of great poets -Dinkar, Maithili Sharan Gupta, Mahadevi Verma, Jay Shankar Prasad&nbsp; and many others started to flourish with the passage of time while started the job of a lecturer in a college. I&nbsp; have not seen behind since the publication of&nbsp; 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&nbsp; English others have remained&nbsp; the&nbsp; captivating&nbsp; spirits while Tagore, Aurobindo, Ezekiel ,Sarojini Naidu, and&nbsp; Kamala Das from Indian English poetry, Kalidas from&nbsp; Sanskrit&nbsp; literature&nbsp; and&nbsp; Dinkar, Maithli&nbsp; Sharan&nbsp; Gupta, Jayshankar&nbsp; Prasad, Mahadevi&nbsp; Verma &nbsp; and&nbsp; several others&nbsp; from&nbsp; Hindi&nbsp; literature have been adding fuel to the poetic flames&nbsp; from&nbsp; time&nbsp; to&nbsp; time. Q3: What time of day do you do most of your writing ? &nbsp;&nbsp;AKC: Morning&nbsp; is&nbsp; the&nbsp; spring&nbsp; for the&nbsp; creative&nbsp; wing&nbsp; because&nbsp; silence becomes&nbsp; the&nbsp; monarch&nbsp; during&nbsp; morning period. Q4: Why do you write ? AKC :&nbsp; 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&nbsp; my creative&nbsp; spirits in the seventh heaven. Q5 : Do you have any favourite quotes from writers ? AKC :&nbsp; 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&nbsp; 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. &nbsp; Q6: What is one piece of advice you would give new/aspiring writers ? AKC : The essence of patience will knock your&nbsp; 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 :&nbsp; Here lies a list of published poetry collections. 1.Eternal&nbsp; Voices,2007,PBD,Bareilly,UP 2.Universal&nbsp; Voices,2008, IAPEN,Begusarai. 3.My Songs,2008,IAPEN,Begusarai. 4.Melody, 2009, IAPEN,Begusarai.

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


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

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