Reflections
235. A face-saving exercise by a defeated leader
The inevitable has just happened. The US president, Donald Trump, has said he has instructed the Defense Department to postpone all airstrikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure fo...
234. Iran now has a more entrenched regime
As the war in the Middle East enters its fourth week, it is now taking a deadly turn. Besides energy, a water crisis is now looming across the Gulf region, rattling the whole region. If you watch and...
233. Iranian women will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic one day
After taking an idiotic decision and being fooled by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu into attacking Iran, and creating a crisis in the whole world, a desperate Donald Trump is now saying th...
232. Home is where the heart is
Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In the early 2000s, she released two successful albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy alongside San...
Poetry
235. I shall not live in vain
“If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her,” wrote Emily Dickinson in April 1862
234. still, got twenty-eight teeth to shine
I learned about Jenni last year when her memoir “Ootlin” was published by Penguin.
233. Why our own little garden had no apples
Today, Nowruz, the Persian New Year and spring equinox, is being celebrated in Iran
232. Then, soon, love will also be called crisis
Lyuba Yakimchuk is a Ukrainian poet, playwright, and screenwriter. She has been named one of the hundred most influential people in the arts in Ukraine by the magazine The New Voice of Ukraine.
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.