Reflections
310. Will anyone care about the Global Justice Report?
On June 4, the World Inequality Lab introduced the Global Justice Report: a Strategy for Equality and Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries during the opening of the World Inequality Conference 2026....
309. A request letter kept in the threat packet
Early this morning, when I opened my mailbox, I found a link to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s official website from a friend in Kyiv. In an open letter, Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Vladimir...
308. When Beijing’s streets flowed with blood
Today marks the day in 1989 when the bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters took place around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square and in 400 cities across China. It is known as the June Fourth Incident.The pr...
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,...
Poetry
310. a womanly mirage
June Jordan, a poet, playwright, and essayist, was a celebrated Jamaican American author
309. honey flowed from the split cup
Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) was an American writer, feminist, poet, and civil rights activist
308. Her flesh, bitter and salt to my tongue
In 1923, Elsa Gidlow published the U.S.'s first book of lesbian poetry, titled On A Grey Thread.
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.
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.