Reflections
318. Today is a special day
Can a book empower a movement? Absolutely. The widely read novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852, is often regarded as one of the factors that led to the American Civil War. It energized anti-sla...
317. Helen Mirren expressed a sentiment shared by many
Actress Helen Mirren played Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the 2023 biopic directed by Guy Nattiv. She has publicly expressed her support for Israel, notably co-signing a letter with Gene Simmon...
316. Famous for his signature phrase, "Love Life," David Hockney leaves the world
When renowned contemporary artist David Hockney expressed his opinions on art history and the techniques used by master painters in his 2001 book Secret Knowledge, it generated considerable controvers...
315. Hubris is the opposite of humility
I read a story somewhere long back, and that touched me. Once, the renowned pianist Paderewski, who later became Poland's Prime Minister, visited Beethoven's birthplace in Bonn. The ho...
Poetry
318. I want to hug him sometimes, and I don’t
Brian Tierney is a young poet and the author of Rise and Float, which was a finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series.
317. It so happens I am sick of being a man
I like Pablo Neruda’s long poem “Walking Around” and reread it today.
316. How Love Burns Through the Putting in the Seed
Sharing Robert Frost’s explicitly and effectively heterosexual poem “Putting in the Seed”-
315. a love cave around her face
Sharing a poem by the American poet James Laughlin (1914 – 1997)
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.