Reflections
199. The story of Bangladesh
I hate to see people going gaga over the victory of a man who returns home after 17 years in exile to become his country’s prime minister.I am worried about people from Bangladesh. I am concerned and...
198. Voices from Munich Security Conference
At the annual Munich Security Conference, we are getting a dose of statements every day, sometimes blunt, sometimes funny, and sometimes very childish. Let us see who said what.Friedrich Merz, th...
197. How toxic is the Gaza address
How far can the intensity of hate affect someone? The answer is that there is no limit. It happened with Hitler and is happening with Israel now.An Israeli court has denied an appeal for a five-year-o...
196. Why is exposure to intellectually stimulating environments needed?
Personally, I find the ideas of coma, Alzheimer's, and dementia frightening because of my close observations of these conditions. So, I try to keep track of the related news and research reports...
Poetry
199. Death is no dream
Can you imagine the impact of a song? Yes, there is a song that led many people to take their own lives
198. A farmer considers the changing sky
Today I just remembered Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration Day.
197. Housed in your body, one poet
Known for his novels, poetry, and travel writing, Nooteboom was one of Europe’s leading contemporary writers. He has written 23 books about his travels alone.
196. A Poem About My Wife
Considering my fear of dementia, a friend shared a poem titled “A Poem About My Wife,” not in a literal sense; in fact, we might call it a note written by a sad man.
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.