Reflections
187. The absence of unified international action
The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights reports that 18,592 children have died in Gaza, civilian casualties are increasing in Ukraine, and there is an epidemic of sexual...
186. Now the madman in the White House turns attention to Cuba
Cuba is facing ongoing fuel shortages and frequent blackouts because the United States is preventing any further fuel shipments from reaching the country.According to the data consultancy Kpler, only...
185. Myanmar gets what was anticipated
Myanmar's election results aligned with expectations, and its parliament is scheduled to meet in March to choose a president, with a new government expected to assume office in April. The electio...
184. 'Schitt's Creek's Moira left us feeling “Home Alone”'
First, I recommend Schitt's Creek, the Canadian sitcom created by Dan Levy and Eugene Levy, to those who haven't seen it. It has 80 episodes across six seasons and is available on Netflix. The series...
Poetry
187. War is not the answer; it never was
Let's put down the weapons, let's end the fight
186. Listen to me as one listens to the rain
Octavio Paz, the Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990,
185. Together with frogs, snails
Wungyi Padethayaza was a Burmese poet
184. It's raining men! Every specimen!
The Weather Girls' camp classic “It’s Raining Men” was a disco hit when it was released in 1982, written by Paul Jabara and Paul Shaffer
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.