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Arjun Choudhuri is a poet, translator and researcher from Silchar, Assam (India). He was born in 1984 at Silchar to Arup Choudhuri and Swarnali Choudhuri and even now lives there with his family. Arjun is one of the first English voices to emerge out of what is known as Barak Valley, a remote region in the state of Assam with a turbulent history beginning from the time of colonial infiltration in the North eastern region of India. Arjun has written over four volumes of poetry and has collaborated with Ninth Column and Vicky Publishers in Guwahati to produce Bordering Poetry which is perhaps the first anthology of translations of the poetry written originally in Bengali by poets from this region. Arjun's first volume of poetry In the House Next Door was published when he was twenty two, during the time when he was undergoing his post graduate programme in English studies at the Department of English, School of Languages, Assam University. It was published from Writers Workshop by the late Prof. P. Lal in 2006. After he completed his post graduate degree with university honours and a merit award for topping the class of his graduation year in 2007, Arjun joined the Department of English at Gurucharan College, Silchar as a lecturer (contractual). In 2009, Arjun began working on his PhD at the Department of English under the supervision of Dr. Dipankar Purakayastha who is also a renowned authority on Romantic literature and African-American studies. Arjun's PhD project deals with a selective body of fiction from multiethnic American literature. Arjun also writes poetry and reflective prose in Bengali though he has not published any independent work in Bengali as yet. Arjun's most recent publication(in press) is a collocation of autobiografictional narratives and poetry titled Saffron Metrophobia. At present, Arjun is continuing his research project at Assam University while working at the same time as an Asst. Editor (voluntary) at the north eastern English daily The Mizoram Post. Besides writing in English and Bengali, Arjun also translates from various languages like Latin, French, Sanskrit and Hindi but is not eager to publish any work from these source languages. He has also written for and published with major literary journals across the world. Arjun Choudhuri can be reached online at the website for DSCJournal which is a literary archive-journal maintained by Arjun and others. He also has an active profile on Facebook where he can also be accessed.