Reflections
87. A message for Donald Trump and the Many Vultures
According to the reports coming from Gaza, Israel Defense Forces have now started installing yellow concrete markers every 200 meters to delineate the area remaining under Israeli control during the f...
86. Falling in love is not easy
Love is wonderfully explained by Pascal, who said that the heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. So, why should we discuss something like love? But I will, because I can't resi...
85. Yamuna River back in the news, as usual
Every year, in the days leading up to the Chhath festival, the Yamuna River in Delhi makes front-page news. So why should this year be any different? However, this time, the news has a different meani...
84. Deathbed repentance
On May 15, 2025, Glen Rogers, known by several names such as The Casanova Killer and The Cross-Country Killer, was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison after spending nearly 30 years o...
Poetry
87. Those Days (V)
It’s like a coffin we are forced to fit into
86. Those Days (IV)
When uncomfortable thoughts kept us awake
85. Those Days (III)
Keeping alive the body and the soul with the faith that life is always about hopes and dreams
84. Those Days (II)
When we kept our hearts in our palms ready to hand over any damsel we met
Krishna Kumar Mishra
A bilingual poet, author, columnist, editor, script writer and painter, an Aviation Engineer by education but a journalist by profession.
Worked with Indian Express group; edited Courage and The Voice magazines; Edited and Published The Scoria (the leading English literary magazine 1995-2002) which has the credit of introducing more than 100 new poets, including many American & British poets.
The Scoria was patronized by Khushwant Singh, former Prime Ministers VP Singh and PV Narasimha Rao, George Fernandes (who served as the Defence Minister of India from 1998 until 2004), Nani A Palkhivala, Russi Mody, Justice VR Krishna Iyer among others; Andrew Motion (who was later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009), Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Mulk Raj Anand, Ruskin Bond, Jayanta Mahapatra, Niranjan Mohanty, Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff, Edith Konecky, Jonathan Gourlay, Patricia Prime, Arlene Zide and some other very well-known poets and authors.
Author of several books in English and Hindi. First Poetry collection, “Always in Transit” was first published in London by Dolphin.
Was editor of India’s best known investment magazine Dalal Street Investment Journal before starting own venture Indian Economy & Market.