Reflections
277. Failure in life is inevitable
Seneca said: “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” But who controls its length or the years? That’s not in our hands. Several factors influence this...
276. World Press Freedom Day is just a joke
Today is World Press Freedom Day, with UNESCO supporting media outlets under pressure or censorship and honouring journalists who have died while on the job. The year 2025 was the deadliest for journa...
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,...
Poetry
277. Won't you celebrate with me
Lucille Clifton was an American poet. Langston Hughes published Clifton's poetry in his highly influential anthology, The Poetry of the Negro, in 1970.
276. You love not me
Sharing a poem by Thomas Hardy titled, “A Broken Appointment” –
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’ -
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.