Reflections
265. Israel has lost its conscience
Israel celebrated its 78th Independence Day yesterday, April 21, with the usual torch-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl. Dignitaries and flag-waving spectators gathered in the temporary sta...
264. Bonya reminds the Russians that Putin is not a ‘good tsar’
The three main actors in an unnecessary global war now face serious trouble on their home fronts. They know that history will not remember them kindly and that they are already being cursed. Thes...
263. Iran must be an Atomic Power to make Middle East stable
It may look like a little ambiguous statement, but that is the fact. The danger of a nuclear Iran has been grossly exaggerated, and the decades-long Middle East nuclear crisis will end only when a bal...
262. Who’s making money in the US-Iran war?
The US-Israel war in Iran has caused significant disruption around the world, but there are people who are making a huge amount of money. To say, they have been minting dollars.There are bets, and the...
Poetry
265. All about us is noise
Elizabeth Alexander is a founding member of Cave Canem, an organization dedicated to promoting African American poets and poetry.
264. to let it go
Mary Jane Oliver (1935 - 2019) was an American poet who drew inspiration from nature and maintained a lifelong habit of solitary walks
263. For all that was left unsaid
John O'Donohue was an Irish poet, author, priest, and Hegelian philosopher.
262. I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong
Without any introduction, I am sharing WH Auden’s poem, “Funeral Blues,” which has been on my mind since I woke up this morning.
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.