Reflections
296. An offensive tweet by American activist Kwame Ture
Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of modern political Zionism. He was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who founded the Zionist Organization, promoting Jewish m...
295. When you have no power of choice
Reading Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography was interesting, as it answered some questions I had about writing. She mentions in her Autobiography that she had no ‘power of choice’ when it came to her in...
294. Israel lacks understanding of human dignity
Israel is accountable for the deaths and starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and its attacks on humanitarian aid are condemnable. I view it as one of the world’s leading terrorist...
293. Taiwan Travelogue wins the International Booker Prize
Taiwan Travelogue, a novel by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker Prize. Yáng and King were anno...
Poetry
296. Remembering Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens (1944–2026) was a British poet, renowned as the Guardian’s Poem of the Week columnist.
295. sometimes you need one knife to carve another
I am sharing a poem today by Hala Alyan, a Palestinian-American writer, poet, and clinical psychologist, continuing that series.
294. I wish I knew what I desire
After posting yesterday's Nazm, Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s “Ek Naghma Karbala-e-Beirut Ke Liye” (A Threnody for the Karbala of Beirut), I am flooded with poems about Beirut from my well-meaning readers today.
293. Beirut will exist till the end of time
Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote a Nazm originally titled “Ek Naghma Karbala-e-Beirut Ke Liye” (A Threnody for the Karbala of Beirut), dedicated to Lebanon's capital, Beirut
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.