Reflections
295. When you have no power of choice
Reading Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography was interesting, as it answered some questions I had about writing. She mentions in her Autobiography that she had no ‘power of choice’ when it came to her in...
294. Israel lacks understanding of human dignity
Israel is accountable for the deaths and starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and its attacks on humanitarian aid are condemnable. I view it as one of the world’s leading terrorist...
293. Taiwan Travelogue wins the International Booker Prize
Taiwan Travelogue, a novel by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King, has become the first book originally written in Mandarin Chinese to win the International Booker Prize. Yáng and King were anno...
292. Are you in earnest?
We all have a vast reservoir of energy, yet we rarely use it to its full potential. Those who don't use their energy often lead ordinary lives. It can take years for them to realize that their lives l...
Poetry
295. sometimes you need one knife to carve another
I am sharing a poem today by Hala Alyan, a Palestinian-American writer, poet, and clinical psychologist, continuing that series.
294. I wish I knew what I desire
After posting yesterday's Nazm, Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s “Ek Naghma Karbala-e-Beirut Ke Liye” (A Threnody for the Karbala of Beirut), I am flooded with poems about Beirut from my well-meaning readers today.
293. Beirut will exist till the end of time
Faiz Ahmad Faiz wrote a Nazm originally titled “Ek Naghma Karbala-e-Beirut Ke Liye” (A Threnody for the Karbala of Beirut), dedicated to Lebanon's capital, Beirut
292. Life is but an empty dream!
I frequently revisit the poem “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem stirs a deep fire within me.
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.