Reflections
275. Why is Israel afraid of education?
A UN report shows that Israeli attacks have resulted in the deaths of at least 792 teachers and 18,639 students, while damaging or destroying nine out of ten school buildings in the occupied West Bank...
274. OPEC gets a jolt from the UAE
On April 28, 2026, the UAE announced it would exit OPEC and OPEC+, the expanded group that includes Russia, on May 1. While members like Qatar in 2019 and Angola in 2024 have departed from OPEC,...
273. Iran must release Narges Mohammadi
Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi remains detained in an Iranian prison. Her family and friends are alarmed for her safety due to a sudden decline in her health, a suspected heart attack, and ne...
272. The only thing you truly control is today
My wife and I had been discussing for 30 years the idea of living in a natural setting, surrounded by mountains and a river. We kept postponing, telling ourselves we’d do it once we had more time...
Poetry
275. We lived happily during the war
Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union city of Odesa, but his family was granted political asylum in the United States in 1993.
274. Death has done all death can
Sharing Robert Browning’s poem, ‘After’ -
273. The wind will one day blow us away
Forugh Farrokhzād is an Iranian poet. Sharing one of her poems sent by a friend.
272. Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Mary Jane Oliver is one of my favorite poets.
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.