Arbind Kumar Choudhary who has got not only two of his poetry collections- Majuli:The Vatican City of Assam and Mother India included for graduate and post-graduate courses in English at Sibsagar University, Assam but also honoured with the crown of the Universal Ambassador of Peace from Poetry and The Phrasal King in Indian English Poetry by Geneva based president Gabrielle Simond of duo organizations – Universal Ambassador Peace Circle and Universal Peace Embassy and Indian creative milieu. The research synopsis on The Aspects of Love and Relationship in the selected Works of A.K. Choudhary has been approved in The Pacific University of Rajasthan. As a prominent poet Dr. Choudhary has been reviewed and interviewed in a number of Indian English daily newspapers such as The Daily Guardian,The Hans India,The Hitavada, The Heaven Mail,The Precious Kashmir, Bharat 18, Bombay Today, Featured Times, The Weekly Mail ,Daily Hunt and many others excluding various magazines in America, Romania, Albania, India and Malta.
His poetic iridescence, phrasal essence, mythical meridian, Spenserian sensuousness, Keatsean romantic flavour and Wordsworthean poetic manifesto flourish with the passage of time that make him a glittering star of the creative groves all around the continent. Like Edmund Spenser Arbind Kumar Choudhary has propounded the concept of not only the Indianised version of Sonnets but also a new model of versification popularly called Arbindonean Sonnets and Arbindonean Racy Style of Versification in English poetry.Arbindonean School of Poetry incorporates melodious music of Sarojini Naidu, emotional outburst of Kamala Das, mythical magnificence of Aurobindo, nationalistic approach of H.L.V.Derozio, romantic flavour of the romanticists and ,above all, the poetic universality of Tagore with might and main. The ideal style of versification that consists the ascending word- order in a quatrain is popularly called Arbindonean Racy Style of Versification in Indian English poetry while Indianised version of sonnets that is called Arbindonean Sonnets exhumes Indian essence worldwide. There are a large number of his verse-suitors in India and abroad who have been appreciating his verses with their full-throated ease ?
Excerpts from a conversation with the Phrasal King Arbind Kumar Choudhary :
Q 1.: Prof. NDR Chandra has called you second Keats of English literature while Prof. SC Dwivedi calls you Indian Keats. Where do you find yourself in the writings ?
AKC : There are a number of professors and critics who love my writings at their heart and soul? There are few of them who have gone through my poetic groves and ,lastly, commented positively. I am thankful to all of them who support my writings morally and philosophically. I am a literary soldier of the vast world of literature where my duty is to fight for sake of literary whirlwind around my surroundings and nothing else.
Q 2. : Why do you justify the strife of life? What is your philosophy of life?
AKC: Life is a crown of thorns rather than a bed of roses. Life is meant to embrace the challenge of it, be it good or bad, vital or fatal, and permanent or temporary. Life is to fight with a series of problems and , lastly, win over them because strife of life is better than ever. Paupers are the time’s best jewels who sacrifice much for the sake of the society and in return get humiliation and hellish life?It is the sacrifice that makes the purpose of life fruitful in the days to come. It is the misery that flourishes the success of treasury in life. It is the sorrow that makes a man hero of tomorrow.
Q3. : Why have you been called the originator of Indianised version of Sonnets? What are the salient features of your sonnets?
AKC : My sonnets consist seven rhymed couplets quite different from Spenserian or Shakespearean or Miltonic sonnets.Secondly, it has its Indian poetic essence deeply rooted in Indian soil . Thirdly, native words are also found besides colloquial and compound words .Fourthly, its unique versification and rhyme pattern make me an Indian sonneteer in English literature. All sonnets focus only on Indian literary legends and their literary contents .
Q4. : Your precious message for youngsters if any.
AKC: They are the rising sun of the poetic world, not the noon of the day. As a result they must be honest, voracious readers and, above all, innovatives in their literary works. No one can prohibit them from permanent berth in the poetic world if poetry becomes their passion, not profession.
Q5.:Are you a mere puppet of the creative milieu? How can you distinguish yourself from others ?
AKC: I am a devoted literary soldier by passion, not profession. I have propounded my philosophy of life , nature, love and poetry in Melody, Nature, Love and The Poet respectively.
The racy style of versification, Indianized version of sonnets, blending of Indian and western mythology, blending of Aurobindonean and the Ezekielean School of Poetry ,blending of Keatsean and Popean poetic trends, abundance of explored , new, compound , phrasal and proverbial words etc. are the distinctive features of the creative groves.