Reflections
245. Love Beyond Boundaries
A monkey was seen crying and cuddling the body of 85-year-old Parvatamma, who passed away from an age-related illness. Parvatamma regularly fed monkeys near her home, and their bond deepene...
244. The bully gets a fitting reply
In a daring move, Botswana's President, Duma Gideon Boko, has declined an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump to visit the White House. He emphasized that if Trump intends to discus...
243. Alexander Ernst Kluge, a philosophical interpreter of maladies
Alexander Ernst Kluge (1932–2026), a renowned German author, filmmaker, academic, and public intellectual, passed away in Munich five days ago, on March 25, 2026, at the age of 94. He was a pivotal fi...
242. Israel is a very sensitive topic for India
The Voice of Hind Rajab, an Oscar-nominated Tunisian film about a five-year-old girl's death during the Israel-Gaza conflict, has been banned by the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). Ja...
Poetry
245. We lived happily during the war
Poet Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, a city in the former Soviet Union. His family sought asylum in the United States in 1993 and settled in New York.
244. Never give all the heart, for love
William Butler Yeats is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.
243. May it strike your soul
Batool Abu Akleen is a poet and translator from Gaza, Palestine.
242. when they cut you, I bleed
A reader introduced me to poet Dr. Kamand Kojouri, who is an Assistant Professor of English at the American University in Dubai
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.