Reflections
307. A wonderful “View from the East Wing”
I have always admired Jill Biden for being the first First Lady to hold a job outside the White House while her husband was President. She worked as a professor of English at a college. Secondly,...
306. Let good sense prevail
I'm not certain how much is factual and how much is exaggeration, but it still feels enjoyable to hear.According to a report released by Axios, a U.S. website, Donald Trump challenged Benjamin Netanya...
305. Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts
There are days when I feel low, try to avoid the task at hand, and just close my eyes, sitting under a tree on my farm, devoid of any thought. Today was such a day. The world feels as if it is sl...
304. The girl I fell in love with when I saw her photo
I can never forget those enchanting days in Madras that felt like liberation, a liberation forced upon me. Still, as a free spirit, I was eager to explore the world after a permanent breakup of a majo...
Poetry
307. I want to possess you completely
In the 1800s, Wu Tsao was a renowned poet whose works were widely sung across China. She openly expressed her love for women and authored love poetry for courtesans.
306. In your white voluptuousness, my desire rests
Renée Vivien—who was Barney's lover—wrote and published her own lesbian poetry, which was quite explicit in its content.
305. One brick upon another, and the highest wall is made
I am sharing a wonderful little poem, one of my favourites, by Robert Heywood, titled “By Degrees” -
304. Coming together, it is easier to work after our bodies meet
I am familiar with Audre Lorde through her account of battling breast cancer and undergoing a mastectomy, in her book, The Cancer Journals,
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.