Reflections
202. Remembering The Royal Indian Navy Uprising
I'm not sure who said this, but whoever said it has certainly spoken a truth we must try to understand and follow. “Do you really believe... that everything historians tell us about women is actually...
201. Reasons Franklin urges young men to take an old mistress
Receiving emails from strangers who generously share their ideas after reading my work always feels like a truly exhilarating and satisfying moment.I call them my real friends, unlike the term used fo...
200. Data released by Foreign Institutions is a joke
In 2015, a friend staying in California wrote in an email that he was just watching a show by TV host and comedian John Oliver, who stunned him with some brutal statistics. Oliver read out figure...
199. The story of Bangladesh
I hate to see people going gaga over the victory of a man who returns home after 17 years in exile to become his country’s prime minister.I am worried about people from Bangladesh. I am concerned and...
Poetry
202. Waste not your tears on him
After reading yesterday’s post, a reader reminded me that my guru, Khushwant Singh, had written his own epitaph.
201. Epitaph on a Pessimist
My guru, Khushwant Singh, had memorized dozens of Epitaphs, which he sometimes shared.
200. I should have kissed her
Thomas Hardy, the novelist who in fact introduced me to the love of the English language, has written some lovely short poems..
199. Death is no dream
Can you imagine the impact of a song? Yes, there is a song that led many people to take their own lives
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.