Reflections
238. Arundhati Roy does it once again
No other authors come to mind when I think of someone who invests more of their creative energy in self-promotion than in their writing. And that one name is - Arundhati Roy.She is now standing alongs...
237. The man who shaped post-war German discourse is no more
Jurgen Habermas, the German philosopher and social theorist renowned for shaping post-war German discourse, passed away at the age of 96 in Starnberg, Germany, a week ago.I learned about his philosoph...
236. “If not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
Few paid attention when, earlier this year in Davos, the Canadian prime minister urged middle powers to form alliances capable of cooperating in a world with increasing U.S.-China competition, warning...
235. A face-saving exercise by a defeated leader
The inevitable has just happened. The US president, Donald Trump, has said he has instructed the Defense Department to postpone all airstrikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure fo...
Poetry
238. when the gun shots didn't arouse the neighbors
If you ever have time, watch Charles Bukowski's poem “Hell is a Lonely Place”
237. End the war
Batool Abu Akleen is a poet and translator from Gaza, Palestine.
236. ever tried to enter your own heart?
Baba Bulleh Shah encourages his disciples to stop looking elsewhere and instead look within themselves, for it is in one’s own heart that the Eternal Divinity resides.
235. I shall not live in vain
“If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her,” wrote Emily Dickinson in April 1862
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.