How are you Prof. Dubey? I think you are fine, but now-a-days I am not keeping good health. Well, whatever be that, I had been engaged with Relation Revisited. First, I thought of including something like 52 poems. Now I think it will include 72 or more. It begins from microcosm and goes up to the macrocosm level. Have you received my fifteenth poetry-collection? I am working on my sixteenth. I went on saying, but I did not hear anything from your side. The power of silence has its own impact. I think it will be a good work. Have you sent the article on Jayanta Mahapatra? Let me receive it and after that I shall let you know my opinion. I have selected fourteen quatrains from your Asthi-Kalasha, giving footnotes for these words, asthi, kalasha and kalpurusha, translating as bone, pitcher and time. Though you are an old contributor, but instead of it I shall try to re-introduce you again. ------Sri P.K.Majumder, 24.10.2012 You are a good soul and a man; a good scholar and a poet and a critic. I shall propagate you and my blessings will always be with you. -----Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 23.7.11 Congratulations on being a member of the editorial board of the journal. You are constructive, creative and progressive enough to take up and record all, as you have a very sharp memory to keep track of. The seed is yet to grow up. The lotus is in bud and it will take time to blossom fully. You are an established poet now. But still have to go a long way. You have yet to bring out the best of literature, the best of your poetry. You have to read more and more, learn and experience through. You have to go ahead and your future is bright as we live by the religion of literature. You write a book on the fifty years of Indian English poetry like William Henry Hudson, basing all that on him as for your literary example and try to give some pages to each of the practicing poets, big or small. You take it up seriously. ------Dr.S.C.Dwidedi, 17.11.12 I went through your poetry-book Remnants of Dreams which is no doubt a fine collection of poems. So many people have already accepted your poetry and have given opinion on them. Hence, there is nothing to counter it. You have struggled and suffered and it is a result of that. You are now an established poet. You are so young, beautiful and loveful. Your poems come out from the core of your heart. I liked the poem Hari Om, Hari Om in Remnants of Dreams. If the time and chance be, you try to get in touch with some American or British scholars or professors to get them edited from the linguistic point of view as the native tongue is theirs or lies it with them. This is just an advice from my side. The poems which you have are really good poems. Your history book, From The Raj Days is a valuable work. ------Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 17.7.12 I am going through your works. You are a creative writer of first rank. You are doing so much so for Indian English poetry. ------- Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 13.6.12 I received your books, A Survey of Indian English Poetry from the Raj Days to the Present Times, Verses In Waiting Or A Stand By Mode, Remnants of Dreams and A Bunch of poems. You have emerged as an outstanding poet and critic of India. You write like David Daiches. You have written so much on the history of poetry. A million thanks for making your books available to me! I shall surely write about you. I can see that you are in the like of Prema Nandakumar. ------Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 16.7.12 The whole summer day spent in going through Tracing Paper (Verses For You) and basically Satires For Your Readings. Your satire is very biting and it will bite many a man around the locality. Just like a dog bites. How do you pick up words, choose them to fit in? You are very specific in the selection of words. Even if they fire on you or hang you down, you will continue to speak the truth as for threadbare criticism. You write remarkably well and your English is very beautiful. Well-placed, appropriate and suitable words speak a lot about the sense of poetic meaning and communication. -----Dr.R.A.Singh, 30.5.12 After they appreciated and admired Satires, I too read up the whole text and burst into a laughter myself. Mark the journey from a flute-player to a wooden been-player in utter desperation and now it is livelihood to play the been and to make the cobras dance. -----B.K.Dubey (on the characteristics of the title) I received your packet. There are so many good things to read and derive from. There is an ample of materials (Bleeding Hearts, Unknown Citizen, What To Say?, What To Write?, Khushwant Singh: A Writer of Literary Columns, Jayanta Mahapatra: His Mind & Art, Midnight Delvings & Dwellings and The Poet of Orissa: A Study of Jayanta Mahapatra’s Poerty. I had been reading them. ---Dr.R.A.Singh, 29.9.12 When my anthology work is over, I shall start reading your works. I have kept them apart as for an in-depth study. ----Sri P.K.Majumder, 26.9.12 I received your book, Nataraja Shiva yesterday. ----Dr.R.A.Singh, 5.6.12 Your struggles, sacrifices and sufferings have made into a poet. I am proud of you. The sadhaka of a sadhaka is important and all else immaterial. Your Asthi-Kalasha has reached me. I am reading them one by one. ---Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 5.6.12 Poetry in the age of electronic print media, How will the poems be tomorrow, Will the computer literates dominate the scene With their c.vs. and blogs? -----Self-image by B.K.Dubey The poet with the mobile handset talking with, Writing on the computer screen, With the help of the mechanical, electrical, electronic or digital mouse, E-mailing, faxing and scanning and sending, Putting the poems on the internet with the websites of his own. ----The Modern-Day Poet by B.K.Dubey I had been going through Midnight Dwellings and Delvings and you called me up. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful indeed. These are interesting poems no doubt. You should have brought it out in a book. As far as I have known you so far, you are a poet of themes and ideas. As a poet, you are a thinker, a very serious one, so full of thoughts. Your My Bengali Wife, My Critical Wife is humorous. There are serious thoughts to be reckoned with too. Something is there to be learnt and brooded over. I liked, liked it. Your reference to critic Abraham Cowley on Walt Whitman and other British writers show the grip, grasp of the topic, how well-read and vast are you indeed in your readings of English literature. A reading of these has contributed to no doubt. Try to keep yourself well. You have miles to go. -----Sri P.K.Majumder, 18.9.12 I do not see anyone of the parallel level of your writings or even equal to you or even if one is, one has just got the things managed. You have read the British writers most and the vast studies reflect them obviously. This is how I have understood your poetry. ------Sri P.K.Majumder, 18.9.12 You keep awake during the midnight hours and the past-midnight time, marking the things and writing. Eerie silence is so attaching and reclusive. ------Sri P.K.Majumder, 20.9.12 How are you now-a-days? I know you cannot help without writing. Your, What am I? and What Is Poetry? contain in your images and ideas. Your sole stature will come to light someday. I received your M.O. and the packet and the latest works of poetry which you have dispatched to me. I wonder, wonder at the works and titles of your poetry. You have written so much away from the limelight. Those who had not to be are, but I deplore you are not! I opened the packet and cast a cursory glance and had been turning over. You are a talented poet and your talent lies it unappreciated. Now after reading your works, I have been able to re-discover you. I do not know anyone of your talent in contemporary poetry. Your Unknown Citizen shows the mastery and craftsmanship you have acquired after reading British poets and authors. It is an introspection on Auden’s poem or a deviation from? Well-written, well-written, Dubey. I admire you for your ideas and images which come to your mind so profusely. The words and phrases show a command over the vocabulary. I have not seen anyone using it. I have met many literary men and poets, but your vast acumen and comprehension of British classics and their masters have contributed so richly. Though laid down with fever and being unwell, I had been reading in flashes and wished to acknowledge the receipt just now. I had met so many professors, but they do not have a grip over and a clear understanding of modern British poetry which deserve you so richly, ably. -------Sri P.K.Majumder, 20.9.12 I am very much impressed with your criticism book. I have also received a copy of The Dark Daughters (Vol. II ). The matters are fine. I know it what it is in them, but you should have not brought the contents and words in the right context. I do not pose to be a critic, but suggest you to be on the right track. -----Prof.Samiran Kumar Paul, Muzaffarpur, 3.9.2012 When asked about your newest writing, you said to me about Duplicate Ph.D. Do you want to criticize and complain against? Are you pin-pricking here? Abandon that. You have written so much. What have you not, satires, love poems and metaphysical ones? Sometimes when I find time to attend to, I turn over A College Girl. ----Prof.R.A.Singh, 27.6.12 Have you forgotten, poetry is the criticism of life? Is thee any criticism of life in their poetry? They themselves write and read. It has been said, poetry is musical thought. Is there any music in them? Do you ever find it? You have a poet’s heart and hence you write from within. Where to find a genuine poet like you as your emotions are sincere and true to your self? You write keeping in view rhyme and metre which I have come to feel and mark it myself personally. If you are not a poiet then where will poetry be found? Whom to call a poet? ----Dr.R.A.Singh, 28.6.12 Who says it that you write grammatically incorrect poetry? Are they correct grammatically those who talk of being? There are so many flowing after poetic frenzy and popularity, but the emotion is far different. It is not poetry. One can be a varsity head, but not a poetry head. Poetry has nothing to do with the chair. There are many self-made poets, not inborn poets. Those who want to call themselves, let them be. There are three types of poets, egoists, psychists and idiots. Now you can understand from this definition of poetry. Do you know the Wordsworthian definition? Is their poetry spontaneous? Do the emotions lie in recollected? Do they ever recollect in tranquility? Is there any element of spontaneity in them? Do they move about in the meadows to write poetry? ----Dr.R.A.Singh, 28.6.12 None has written so much from Bihar as you have. After doing or choosing to work in Indian English poetry, you should now work in drama just for furthering it. ----Dr.Samiran Kumar Paul, 27.5.12 You indeed labour very hard. The get-up may not be attractive, but your matter is fine. This is what I feel about Jayanta Mahapatra: A Study In Mythical Framework And Structure. The matter is no valuable on Jayanta Mahapatra. I would love to read and comment upon your poetry. ----Dr.Samiran Kumar Paul, 16.5.12 I am happy to see that you have finally broken your silence to come up with your writings. You are really so voracious and voluminous in your achievement. -----Prof.Amarendra Kumar, 17.11.12 I had been desirous of talking to you. I have gone through your poetry concerning death and others. You have got an insight of own. You should have been in the limelight. I salute you, Dubey Saheb. ----Dr.Arvind A Nawale, Latur, 28.7.2012 While writing a paragraph on Jayanta, I quoted and drew upon you. My impression is quite clear, there is none who has studied him so exclusively and intensively. Your bold point that there is nothing new in his latest works is telling of. Only themes and stuffs lie in repeated. I shall write a paper on your poetry as for an assessment consisting of six pages which the academic critics have failed to take notice of that. As a bureaucrat too, I shall try to do justice with your poetry and its proper criticism. ----Sri P.K.Majumder, 28.7.12 I received your book on Jayanta Mahapatra just today. Ii is a very, very good work. Mr.Dubey, as I have gone through several of your works on Jayanta Mahapatra. You are an expert; an authority on Jayanta Mahapatra. As a poet, you are strong; very, very strong in language and expression. This is just to inform about the receipt of the mail. If you do a paper on Jayanta Mahapatra for my journal concerning his imagery or the theme of nativity, I would in my journal. ----Sri P.K.Majumder, 25.7.12 I have got all the mails sent by you. The historical book, A History of Indian English Poetry from the Raj Days to the Present Times is a wonderful work. I appreciate your efforts done so much on Indian English poetry. I can mark the comical element. There are two aspects of your personality and these two latent aspects need to be explored and forwarded for approbation. Why do you not send your poems to the journals as for popularizing them? Why do you not get your books of criticism published from standards publishers with the ISBN numbers instead of opting for homely and local publications? I know the intelligentia; the pseudo-intellectuals. I presume, you are a senior fellow and are well-experienced. ----Prof. Manash Pratim Borah, Dahung, Arunachal Pradesh, 26.7.12 Dr.Dubey, I received the speed post mail today containing so many of books of yours on Indian English literature which is at the same time quite astonishing and amazing as you have worked so much and that too on a massive scale. You are an expert on Indian English poetry for which I congratulate you. You books on Jayanta Mahapatara are many for which you deserve another doctorate. I am impressed with your works on him. I shall do papers on your poetry and shall bring out too in my journal. The twenty-five years of Indian English poetry is fully anthologized in your works. Even the minor things of our society and the people around us have been noted in. ----Sri P.K.Majumder, 29.6.12 I can risk even my prestige for you and can go knocking others. Had I been on the peer review committee of Indian English poetry editions and had there been eight new voices, I would have definitely rejected the all, keeping the two and in that two fall you within. This much I can do for friendship sake as well as the neglect incurred to you. ----Dr.R.A.Singh, 30.6.2012 You are a multi-faceted genius with your multidimensional and multifarious writings of yours. ----Prof Amarendra Kumar, 17.9.12 I received How Far Indian Is Indian English Poetry and Satires For Your readings. I can see the autobiographical element in it. ----Prof.Susheel Kumar Sharma, 27.5.12 Nissim Ezekiel: His Mind & Art is no doubt a fine book of good criticism which I myself came o feel it while going through it. You have worked so much and your efforts are indeed laudable. I personally saw the letter of Nissim Ezekiel. ----Prof.Samiran Kumar Paul, 7.5.12 I received your books, namely The Poet’s Progress, Indian Birds, Beasts & Flowers, Nirguna Poems and Asthi-Kalasha. I shall let you about the delivery of other books. I acknowledge the receipt of your texts in profound regard, gratitude and acceptance. I am enjoying your poetry. Your future is bright and I wish the best. ----Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 8.6.12 There is the parody of modern life and Indian politics in your poetry. I have personally liked your poetry. I have seen colours in you. You are a versatile poet and critic and your poetry is of multidimensional range and purview. There ought to have some researches on you. You are a mythologist, a satirist, a romanticist, a realist, a new one and a post-modern. God bless you! You have such a bulk that even if one writes a few lines on each of them, it will turn into a book. -----Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 19.6.12 Your, both the books, A Short History of Indian English Poetry (A Brochure) and Random Reflections reached me. Your future is immensely bright. You are the best critic on Indian English poetry, which has remained neglected and ignored. You have worked so much and if the chances be there, I shall get a thesis is registered on your poetry. ---Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 21.6.12 I have received the notes and letters of appreciation you have sent to me. I shall go through them and very soon hear from me. -----Prof. K.K.Kapur, Bareilly, 22.6.12 A singer of the unsung talent am I, Contradicting you That you are only talented And there is none like you in the world. The wild flowers which flower and scatter away Into the wilds and the unknown forest tract Before I could know Their sweet fragrance, dazzling hue and lovelier loveliness. -------- I Do Not Know What Am I Saying by Bijay Kant Dubey This is what I felt on reading your poetry. I had been going through the works you sent to me yesterday. Remarkable, remarkable indeed. A talent so rare, rare to be found elsewhere. You are so talented that I not have the words to say it, so profusely endowed with, which others lack in. I do not anyone who has worked so much. You have written on the smallest creatures seen around and ignored by being unmindful of that. Poetry As Impressions And Sensations is one such. The common and ordinary things too have touched and covered in. ----Sri P.K.Majumder, 16.9.12 It is really amazing to know about your poetry and the vast bulk of literature that you have written. I wonder at the fecundity of your output, the way you have worked. I have received so many of your works, mostly the handwritten works. You have worked in many ways. Never did I get information about your and why did you remain left out? It baffles me I do not know all these. You are a religious and philosophic poet. You have worked as a promoter of Indian English poetry, I know it well. If one takes it up, it will turn into a critical book. I know it you have been deprived. You have a large body of creative and literary works and we should have apprised it earlier as these lie unpublished to our astonishment. I had no idea about them and none too said about it. -----Sri P.K.Majumder, 23.6.12 My Love Poems and My Father are excellent books of prose poems. I admire them wholeheartedly. The Bluff-Masters of Indian English Poetry is a great volume of poetry and it contains in your genuine feelings. In the beginning I thought it that there would be venom, enmity, hatred and jealousy, but there is nothing like this. A little of that is bound to be as it is a satire. I congratulate you for this great poem. There is a local colour in the poem Vidisha, You Seek The Blessings of Ma Manasa And Ma Shitala. Though They called It is a fine penetration of the Indian English conferences and seminars, one on the spoken English. It is a funny poem and it reflects your personality. No venom lies it spilled or spewed. You are a thinker and a philosopher. Matthew Arnold talked of poetry as being the criticism of life and it is true to some extent in this regard. You express the things felt in your heart and yours is a wounded heart. The story of your suffering and victimization is there in it. I had started it hoping to be smitten, but it gave delight to me really. The Bluff-Masters is a satiric poem penetrated through Indian flora and fauna. The experiences of life re there in your poetry and there is a desire to know the unknown in you. -Prof.S.C.Dwivedi, If the beauty, colour, loveliness and fragrance Of the wild blooms can as such, Then what to pride over? If the hue be as such, Wild and variegated, Then what to say it more? ----Fragrance of Oh, My Goodness! by Bijay Kant Dubey Before calling myself great, I see it in others, Who so richly deserve it, But they have no takers of them, Which the world knows it not. ----- How Ignorant Am I! by Bijay Kant Dubey Think it had Yeats not recommended and referred to Tagore, Think it just if he had for that year! Whose autobiographies we need to write, we write it not, O, say you about Kadambaridevi and Annapurnadevi! Had Dr.Sachidanada Sinha been alive, Would Dr.Rajendra Prasad have been! ----Just Think! by Bijay Kant Dubey I have received your four packets, containing Ideas And Images, The Daughters of Maya, God Save Me From and The Bluff-Masters. Everything is there in The Bluff-Masters and it is inclusive of all of these. Do not send it to others. All the bluff masters come within its range and purview. Whether one feels it or not, but is a bluff master of this sort or that. There is your presence in my personal library. In this world of today when everybody is after self-praise, which the world itself likes it, your biting satire, God Save Me will pinch then and you be ready for reactions. If you want to expose or present sincerely, the world will not take it so. -----Dr.R.A.Singh, 30.5.12 My God, let me, Let me be a singer of the unknown citizen, Living namelessly, dying namelessly; My God! let me be a singer! ------My God, Let Me Be A Singer Of That by Bijay Kant Dubey I do not know What talent is it in you? I do not want to call myself talented only, I want to know it, What talent is it in you? -----God, Give Me The Power To Judge! By Bijay Kant Dubey This is to call you as for your excellent volumes of poetry, My Love Poems, My Father and The Bluff-Masters of Indian English Poetry (Satires For You) which I received them today. Congratulations! I congratulate you on bringing them out. Anything on love or shringara rasa is welcome no doubt. Your feelings and emotions are of high intensity and you can really charm through and leave a mark in it. The other volume, My Father commemorates something sublime and serious which Matthew Arnold propagates and speaks of so profoundly. Your feelings for your father are genuine and of high standard standing. These are of course great books of poetry. I read and like it as for seriousness and sublimity of expression. I cannot understand your feelings tinged with in The Bluff-Masters, written on the model of Aleaxnader Pope and John Dryden. Satires are not great poems, but no mean poems. They too open up many a thing, as for example, the lost values. I can see your pains of being neglected and ignored in it. But instead of, it is a standard work and the satires pave the way for something. One day you will be called the Pope or Dryden of India. You are a great poet, promoter, leader and editor. You have written so much. None has so much as you have. Even the modern Indian English poets, Kamala and others have not. I am a lover of poetry. I love and like to read your poetry. There is pain, hurt. You are a wounded man and hence you write poetry so well and so properly. There is an intensity of feeling in you. The Dark Daughters (Vol.I) is a very good work. I admire you as well as bless you from the core of my heart. This is my impression of your poetry, what I felt like that on my first opening of the packet and reading them in full. All the three books are excellent books as for genuine feelings. Even though you have satires, but the element of hate is not. Your satires make the ground for being called the Alexander Pope or Dryden of India. My impression first goes to My Love Poems then My Father to The Bluff Masters. You are a man of literature and poetry. You are a great critic too. -----Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 28.5.12 Had innocence been a flower, I would have sketched it, Vidisha; Had ignorance been And I a painter of these! -----Had Your Innocence And Ignorance Been! by Bijay Kant Dubey Without knowing it, I called myself a poet, As knew I not, What it is poetry? -----The Definition of Poetry by Bijay Kant Dubey I see a flower and try to think In its way, The way it smiles and blooms And fades away. What it there in my bust and torso, These are of the leader to make, Not for me? ----What It’s In A Name! by Bijay Kant Dubey How are you? How is life in your suburban town? Here everyone is a lone islander. One hurries for one thing as it has the benefit and lacuna too. Civilizations has to go discerning inertia. I think yours is a different type of relationship story? What are you doing? (On hearing about The Communists) You are always experimenting with; exploring as for poetry’s sake and writings. Again The Dark Is Beautiful has a side of its own to touch and write on. Dark is gloomy; dark is beautiful. Rabindranath Tagore too wrote about it somewhere. It depends on the aspect of exploration and discussion. What about the article on Jayanta Mahapatra? (Again hearing about comparison with Wordsworth and Yeats) It will be a wonderful article, I think. First, I shall receive it to tell you later of my reactions. -----Sri P.K.Majumder, 18.10.12 I read you almost every day or sometimes when I take you up. Your works are with me. I discover and re-discover you. You have traveled into so many genres of writing. Your latest works on Time and What Is Poetry?. The latter is a broad discussion of what is poetry; the nature, scope and range of it vast and full of perspectives. None has written so much. Your work on Kalpurusha is almost like that on Time. Kalpurusha is Time. I have met so many reputed poets, but have not the man and his mind as you deserve it. ----Sri P.K.Majumder, 15.10.2012 I received the book-packet just today and have returned from the department. It is amazing to see how much you have done. You have a bright future. There should be a doctorate on your poetry. I shall myself take up your poetry to write a paper. My blessings with you! ------Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 3.10.12 I am working on a different Relationship story of the contemporary times. What I conceive, what I write and what I depict are quite clear. The ageing couple’s loneliness and the wait for a call from the single child living in distant America tell of the present-day metropolitan world and civilization, its problems, life-styles and value-systems. I like your idea and writings. -----Sri Pronab Kumar Majumder, 3.10.12 In the night’s loneliness, Think I of the pathways leading to where? ----- The Pathways by Bijay Kant Dubey Is this the way we come here, Is this the way we go out? ----Positioning Myself by Bijay Kant Dubey Well, what can I do for you? What do you order/command me to do? You have written so much which none has, but you are still unknown; an unknown writer. There should be a few books/ three to four books on you. -----Dr. R.A. Singh, 3.10.12 Your poems are really very wonderful poems. I went through them. Your works are a treasure trove of Indian English poetry. I wonder at why you have been left behind. Many smaller writers are in light as for media publicity, but you are not. I shall publish some quatrains from your Asthi-Kalasha in my journal. I have received Bleeding Hearts and A Singer of heart. ---Sri Pronab Kumar Majumder, 27.8.12 O singer, where lie you, Singing the songs of heart! To sing is your job, Nay to see how the coming generations take them up! ----The Joys And Sorrows of Life by Bijay Kant Dubey Brindaban too is a good poem of its type, quite different from the general purview of taking it. I think, The Dark Is Beautiful is so, taking in its own. Bharat Ki Garib Bitia, I think it will be an epical poem of some sort. It is woman oriented-topic. The five volumes on ancient literature of mine make a study of the Vedas, the Mahabharata, the Ramamyana, the Bhgavadgita and other Sanskrit texts; episodes, narratives and characters. I have tried to dwell upon the religious, philosophical, social, moral and spiritual lives of the people of those times and ages. The Bhagavdgita is just an epitome of that. My purpose was to focus on it and to bring out the relevance of the Vedas, the Oriental thought and philosophy, the Hindu view of life, always secular and universal. It is a comprehensive work. I think you too have a better understanding and knowledge of religious texts, as you keep indulging in religion, spirituality, philosophy and other books of that sort while writing poetry or prose. -----Sri P.C.Katoch, Retd. IAS, 26.10.12 The name of Hari, When will you recite, When everything will burn to coal and ashes And when there will not be anything else, I shall not be, you will not be? Sing you the name of Hari, When will you not remain here, When everything will but to! ----O Sing You The Song of Hari! By Bijay Kant Dubey I am proud of you. You have written so much. ---Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 6.10.12 I have received the booklet on Adil Jussawalla the missing person and the Audenesque poem, Unknown Citizen II. You are very, very innovative and exploratory. You explore in all possibilities. You are both an innovator and an experimenter. You are really very, very talented and such a talent is rare. Why do you shy away from publicity? I read you now-a-days almost everyday. You are full of words, words, poetic words and the ideas every time you sit for writing. You have a long way to go. ------Sri Pronab Kumar Majumder, 6.10.12 The dark leg of Kali, My replica, My sculpture in verse The dark leg of Kali, The Leg Divine, Artistic and sculpted. ------The Dark Leg of Kali by Bijay Kant Dubey Dark is beautiful, beautiful is dark, The Creation dark , The Womb too shrouded in mystery, Gloomy, misty and mysterious, Oh, the myths of Creation And what more to say! -----What It Is Dark Is Beautiful by Bijay Kant Dubey The Tongue of Kali, Blood-red Tongue out of the Lips Divine, In Anger or Shame Divine. ----The Myth of Creation Know I Not by Bijay Kant Dubey You have not written one or two books. There are so many books in your credit. It is no easy task to be taken lightly. You are right in saying one who has a journal is a poet and one is not an editor is not a poet. -----Dr.R.A.Singh, 6.8.12 I shall go away, You will go away, But the song of Hari will resound around, It will remain it here. -----Take The Name of Hari, O You! By Bijay Kant Dubey I have received your latest book on Jayanta Mahapatra. There is enough material in it. You are a greater critic that M.K.Naik and K.R.S.Iyengar. Your Survey is a great historical work. It is difficult to write history and you handled it so far. Your book is like that of David Daiches, but without leftistic leanings. Your book is like Hudson’s history, try to take each of the poets, giving some pages to each, as he has given to Wordsworth, Keats and others. You may redraft the survey to include in particular poets and pages to them. Though Namwar Singh may criticize Ram Chandra Shukla and Hazari Prasad Dwivedi, but has he written the history of literature like them? You are more talented than many of the university professors. -----Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 5.8.12 As and when I completed my study of going through your work, The Dark Daughters, I thought of calling you to say my feelings. What did I actually feel? In the initial stages, I mean the beginnings, when I started to take it up, I could not take the things. But later on found my way into your use and grasp of myths, mythologies and readings. It is wonderful, a wonderful work that you have done. Instead of my assignments, heavy backlogs of workloads, relating to bringing out of journal issues and edited anthologies, I found sometime out of to go through Ashti-Kalasha. You have written so much, but why do you take a back seat? In this world of today, many who should not have been are poets and poetesses, many minor ones too. When all are after popularity and publicity, why are you not? Many plagiarists are plagiarizing criticism, but they should acknowledge it. You are an authority on Jayanta Mahapatra as I have told you earlier about Jayanta Mahapatra: His Mind & Art. As I have told you earlier, I intend on publishing a paper on Jayanta from you in my forthcoming issue of the journal. The three books I like them most, Jayanta Mahapatra: His Mind & Art, Asthi-Kalasha and The Dark Daughters. As I told you earlier, I shall publish the quatrains from Asthi-Kalasha in the issues of my journal. After reading and talking to you, I can understand that you are a good teacher, a good writer of thematics and why do you not bring them out? The Dark Daughters is a good paper. Something in it keeps us awe-struck too sometimes. You aim at clarity and there is nothing to do with terse vocabulary and structure. Poetic themes are the specialities of your poetry. This is what I have discovered in you. I am not a man from the academia. I just want to say the truths confronting me. -----Sri P.K.Majumder, 19.8.12 I too searched it and read them, the verses to find out the sculpted daughter smiling; the terracotta figurines. -----Bijay Kant Dubey You send me the books and manuscripts as for viewing them and judging in a right perspective. I can see the satiric and the ironic so strong in you. I shall like to go through. ----- Manash Pratim Borah, Central Institute of Himalayan Culture Studies, West Kameng District, 790116, Arunachal Pradesh, 16.7.12 Sorry sir, I could not call myself a poet, Nor could I ask anyone to write a paper on my poetry. -------But It Does Not Mean I Am Not A Poet by Bijay Kant Dubey In the statue of the unknown citizen, The image of his, Search I myself, The great man unrecognized, the common man commonly, But the streak of genius was in him. I had a desire to give the bouquet of flowers to him, But the torso of his was not, The bust of his was not there. ----- The Lapse In Judgement by Bijay Kant Dubey My books of satires, God, Save Me From Indian Englsih Poets…, Satires For Your Readings and The Bluff-Masters of Indian English Poetry are poets’ vision envisaged, English not, Indians; the White European sahibs not, brown sahibs. ------Bijay Kant Dubey You are a good soul and a man; a good scholar and a poet and a critic. I shall propagate you and my blessings will always be with you. -----Dr.S.C.Dwivedi, 23.7.12 I received your e-mailed poems and have gone through them for the first hand view to intimate later when I receive the packets mailed to me. I appreciate the use of pidgin-English with a pinch of irony and satire. I liked the poems. I admire your interest in poetry and up keeping it. From your poems, I can sense/ gather a pre-thought/ pre-supposed assumption, an idea regarding your poetry. -----Dr.Manash Pratim Borah, 23.7.12 I had been reading your work What Is Poetry? It is really a very good work where you have explored every possibility in defining poetry. I read your books every day as man keeps learning every day. Something he forgets and something he learns and as thus balances himself. You have seen poetry in different perspectives, angles and spectrums of viewing, even using life-experiences as for to narrate the different domains and dimensions of it. I read and wonder at your fecundity, the nature and scope of your poetry. I have met so many writers, famous in their fields, with best minds and hearts, but none have as you deserve, as their range is limited. Your range of writing is very vast. You are a storehouse of knowledge. Poetry is the whole genre and the poem is just a piece. When do you write? How do the images and ideas come to you? What are you doing now-a-days? You keep writing every day. You are a natural poet. You are a silent architect of words and these come to naturally. The Power of Silence, I think, will be a profound work, as I can guess from the title you are working. Your poem about Time is about it in different perspectives and ranges. I too have written poems on time, but apart from that, there is something more to be learnt, as one cannot include it all. Why are you silent and shy? Why do you not publish, What Is poetry? You are a storehouse of new ideas; always experimenting, always inducting in something new. -------Sri Pronab Kumar Mahumder, 12.10.12
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