Reflections
240. Nobody gonna slow me down
From the very beginning, I have been stating that the US and Israel are unlikely to win this war. It's not because of a lack of resources, but rather a lack of comparatively strong willpower. In...
239. Ever heard of Alpine divorce?
A strange term has been gaining popularity on social media. It originated from a TikTok video last month where a woman shared that she was left alone on a hike after a man who had invited her there ab...
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...
Poetry
240. Iran, O my gorgeous paradise
Iranian authorities have just released a patriotic song amid the ongoing war to boost the morale of its people, but I couldn’t find the lyrics.
239. How many times I could have died
I bought 'Letters From Gaza,' edited by Mohammed Al-Zaqqzooq and Mahmoud Alshaer,
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.
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.