Reflections
299. I’m concerned about my friends in Kyiv
The past two days have been extremely painful for me. Seeing the visuals sent by friends from Kyiv, I have come to realize the smallness of the living world, of humanity, and of the earth itself, espe...
298. Oslo, Press Freedom Index & Editor’s Guild of India
I wanted to dismiss this minor incident, which was intentionally staged by a wannabe journalist in Oslo seeking the limelight during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit. The incident recei...
297. Those who made our lives easier
While figures such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell gained widespread fame, many crucial innovators behind everyday technologies died in obscurity, lacked recognition, or faced financial har...
296. An offensive tweet by American activist Kwame Ture
Theodor Herzl (1860–1904) is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of modern political Zionism. He was a Hungarian Jewish journalist and lawyer who founded the Zionist Organization, promoting Jewish m...
Poetry
299. Don’t go away so quickly, my love
May Elias Ziadeh (1886–1941) was a significant figure in the Nahda movement and a pioneering advocate of Oriental feminism
298. The world without you won’t suffice us
As I mentioned earlier about the poems I have received from my readers, I am sharing a poem today by Nizar Qabbani, “Beirut, the Mistress of the World” -
297. You Have Your Lebanon, and I Have Mine
Who among them dares to say, “My life was a drop of blood in the veins of Lebanon, a tear in her eyes or a smile upon her lips”?
296. Remembering Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens (1944–2026) was a British poet, renowned as the Guardian’s Poem of the Week columnist.
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.