Reflections
233. Iranian women will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic one day
After taking an idiotic decision and being fooled by Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu into attacking Iran, and creating a crisis in the whole world, a desperate Donald Trump is now saying th...
232. Home is where the heart is
Michelle Jacquet DeSevren Branch is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. In the early 2000s, she released two successful albums, The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper. She won a Grammy alongside San...
231. A catastrophe and a grave miscalculation
According to Oman’s foreign minister, Badr Albusaidi, Iran and the US were close to reaching a real deal in nuclear negotiations held in Geneva in February, and the talks were substantive.Badr Albusai...
230. Time to revisit Monte Casino or Moroccan Night
Now that the war is on many fronts around the world, it is worth recalling an incident.War is often viewed as a male-dominated activity, but women frequently suffer the most, both during and after con...
Poetry
233. Why our own little garden had no apples
Today, Nowruz, the Persian New Year and spring equinox, is being celebrated in Iran
232. Then, soon, love will also be called crisis
Lyuba Yakimchuk is a Ukrainian poet, playwright, and screenwriter. She has been named one of the hundred most influential people in the arts in Ukraine by the magazine The New Voice of Ukraine.
231. I always dream with open eyes
José Martí, the Cuban poet, and revolutionary philosopher, is considered a national hero of Cuba
230. my Christmas gift to you and yours to me
In some parts of Ireland, January 6 has traditionally been a day when hardworking women pause their chores to gather, chat, knit, and enjoy Christmas cake, pudding, and other holiday leftovers.
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.