Reflections
209. Observe the Differences: Opposition Parties in Israel and India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi starts a two-day visit to Israel today, February 25, 2026. The government states that the trip aims to reinforce the longstanding strategic partnership and offers a chance...
208. Russia-Ukraine war enters its fifth year
Right now, more than a million Ukrainians are without electricity, heating, or water during this cold winter, with temperatures dropping to -20C. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has now entered its...
207. Radical parties are symptoms of social, economic, and political problems
Hitler is dead. Long live Hitler. Hitler is not dead because an idea never dies. It just takes another shape and occupies another space.Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) frequ...
206. The black-coat community needs reform
I have repeatedly stated my complete lack of faith in the Indian judiciary, and I am reiterating it again today. I have several reasons, have witnessed many instances, and know many in the judici...
Poetry
209. And no one was left to speak out for me
Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892 - 1984) is renowned for writing First They Came, a well-known poem about the Holocaust.
208. Duckling floats on Tisyna
Today, a friend shared a song that has become an anthem honoring a fallen Ukrainian hero
207. Sans wine, sans song, and sans End!
Omar Khayyam’s one Rubaiyat is my favourite which I am sharing here.
206. I saw that worrying had come to nothing
Long back, while presenting a copy of “Devotions,” a friend based in New York wrote in a note that Mary Oliver (1935 – 2019) is the only modern poet whose poetry books are bestsellers.
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.