Reflections

<p>320. Will I meet you tomorrow?</p>
June 16, 2026

320. Will I meet you tomorrow?

Today, during a phone call, my friend and ideator, Ashok Jainani, mentioned that war is politics by other means. He provided a thorough explanation, and I completely agree. War serves as a way fo...

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<p>319. a good way to write</p>
June 15, 2026

319. a good way to write

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) was an American lyric poet and playwright. A prominent feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties, Millay won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for h...

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<p>318. Today is a special day&nbsp;</p>
June 14, 2026

318. Today is a special day 

Can a book empower a movement? Absolutely. The widely read novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, is often regarded as one of the factors that led to the American Civil War. It energized anti-sla...

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<p>317. Helen Mirren expressed a sentiment shared by many&nbsp;</p>
June 13, 2026

317. Helen Mirren expressed a sentiment shared by many 

Actress Helen Mirren played Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the 2023 biopic directed by Guy Nattiv. She has publicly expressed her support for Israel, notably co-signing a letter with Gene Simmon...

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Poetry

<p>320. There is no magic anymore</p>
June 16, 2026

320. There is no magic anymore

Although critics marginalized Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) from early 20th-century American poetic canons, she enjoyed popularity during her lifetime

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<p>319<em>. </em>Come live with me and be my love</p>
June 15, 2026

319. Come live with me and be my love

Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), an Elizabethan poet, playwright, and translator, lived just 29 years

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<p>318<em>. </em>I want to hug him sometimes, and I don’t</p>
June 14, 2026

318. I want to hug him sometimes, and I don’t

Brian Tierney is a young poet and the author of Rise and Float, which was a finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series.

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<p>317<em>. </em>It so happens I am sick of being a man</p>
June 13, 2026

317. It so happens I am sick of being a man

I like Pablo Neruda’s long poem “Walking Around” and reread it today.

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Krishna Kumar Mishra

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.