Dr. Dalip Khetarpal
Editorial
Human beings have always carried within themselves an intense and almost sacred desire to matter Beneath ambition, achievement, wealth, influence, and even ordinary social interaction lies a
powerful psychological hunger—the longing to be seen, acknowledged, admired, and considered
significant. Across nations, civilizations, and social classes, this craving reveals itself in countless
ways.
Rajiv Khandelwal
In Memoriam: Dr. P. C. K. Prem (1945–2026)
Poet, Critic, Scholar, and Chairman, Afflatus Creations
It is with deep sorrow that we learn of the passing of P. C. K. Prem of Palampur, a distinguished
writer, scholar, and the Chairman of our international journal: Afflatus Creations. His immense
literary contributions enriched the world of letters and inspired generations of readers and
researchers.
Dr. Ivan Pozzoni
The Anti–Ego-Centrism of Late Modernism
How do we respond to accusations of ego-centrism? What is egoism? Etymologically, it denotes the
centrality of the ἐγώ, or, in full Proto-Indo-European derivation, éǵh₂om.
Dr. Ivan Pozzoni
The Artistic Autism of Latemodernism
Autism, associated with very high levels of sociopathy, is the core of international late modernism. There is no room for a humanitarian/humanitarian vision of the world: the egopathic egomania of modernism’s aesthetic ontology undergoes, with late modernism, a shift toward hatred/resentment
(anger as a declaration of identity) and aggression—as S. Tordjman argues (Aggressive behavior: a language to be understood, in L’Encéphale, XLVIII, 2022, 4-13)—toward readers and professionals, inadequate and ignorant (in the current statistical 90% of our sociological study on disinterest in all forms of other people’s art): subversion and desecration
Rob Harle (Robert Maddox-Harle)
Creativity, Chance and the Role of the Unconscious in the Creation of Original Literature.
I was waiting for the inspiration to hit me so I could write a brilliant opening sentence for this essay. The harder I tried the more it eluded me – this essay explains why. An emerging new theory of our so called unconscious mind is the key to this most frustrating phenomenon which is experienced at
times by all creative people
Timothee Bordenave
Some ethical considerations
In a world necessarily conceived as vast or even immense, it is important to consider for ourselves—the necessary center of our attention and perception, and the sole source of our intelligent reflection—that we can only observe a very small part of it. Then focus our attention on even less, and logically, if we can even think intelligently about an even smaller portion
Timothee Bordenave
The Philosopher’s Stone ?
After recently reading some excerpts from the traditional alchemical texts that had been so important to me during my youth, I sincerely wondered what one could understand from this foundational concept for the mysterious alchemists : the philosopher’s stone.
Eva PETROPOULOu LIANOU
The sea
Once upon a time..
The sea Once a sailor asked a dove, how is it to fly? and the dove answered, you ask me becauseyou are every day at sea and with your strong boat you tear the waves in two.
Dr. Rajamouly Katta
Deity Darshan
Deity Darshan is the most wanted phenomenon, dwelling ever in the hearts and minds of pilgrims. It is a special and distinctive occasion in their lives. They wish to have Deity Darshan as they are His devout devotees. They feel blessed by means of Deity Darshan.
Hemanta Pramanik
DILEMMA
‘Before the second marriage, I thought that I would reform my all concepts about love, marriage and life and try to constitute a very cozy endeared family life but it still remains to me a will-of-the wisp out of my reach.
Archna Sahni
Web of Life
When I close my tired eyes to sleep,
my toes turn into roots, sending
Colours
The colour of a thing becomes a colour.
A rose becomes the color red.
Dr. A. Arun Daves
A SHORE BEFORE THE STORM
The crescent hangs above an anxious sky,
And somewhere, softly, evening prayers begin;
The air is calm—but not the kind we trust—
It holds its breath as though it listens in.
I HAVE MISLAID MY PEACE
The day declines, yet brings no rest to me,
The fields lie full, the season’s hand is kind,
And still my heart, unharvested, must be
A barren stretch no sun can warm or bind.
Dr. Rajamouly Katta
‘Love’, the Voice to Unite AllM
Between man and man
A clash is inhuman
Between a nation and other nation
Earth for Mirth
Earth is life, the planet is for mirth,
Mother of mother,
To feed every creature
Single in the Field
I listened to her in field
Singing a song outpouring
Her profound feelings
The Mind Is the Fountain
The mind is the fountain
Perennial source of wants to spurt
They leap like rising tides
River’s Autobiography
I am all and wholesome,
Starting from the blue
As small and tiny in nature,
Poetic Heights and Depths
Poetry is mighty and majestic
Unequalled in magnitude
Unrivalled in multitude
You Defy Definition!
You are fantastic
For you are mighty and majestic
For you excel mountain heights
For you surpass ocean depths!
Petal Fall
The rose plant was in full growth
A bud appeared on it in dream
All eagerly waited to glimpse its grace
Time Family
Past, present and future,
Confluence of three rivers
To flow a living river,
Dr. Venugopala Rao Kaki
WHERE ARE YOU,MY LORD?
Where are you, my Lord?
You are in places of worship,
In temples, churches, mosques,
Every one declares,
THE BLESSED MORNING
I sat alone in our garden
In the morning,
Nobody is with me,
No book is in my hands,
EVA Petropoulou Lianou
Jealousy
Jealousy,
Means you don’t understand the meaning of life
Jealousy,
Dr. Ivan Pozzoni
CHINESE STABBING: (IS YELLOW BOOK) A MYSTERY
Newspapers, networks, blogs, we all hold the right to write,
without a shred of cultural training, day or night,
we scribble on sensation, slaves to urgency’s call,
brokers of lines played everywhere, never winning, from a PC screen.
SPASMODIC WAITING
I begin my verses with the sentence: waiting is spasmodic,
for if waiting is modest it won’t lead to a spasmic life,
and waiting, i turn into the waiter, a courtly servant of official art,
nibbling surimi sticks and sipping a Bellini,
MARINETTI WOULD NEVER HAVE WRITTEN THIS
Him
Hey there, how’s it going? I’ve been watching you all night, no slowing.
Her
Hey, uncle! What’s your deal, you some Baldocci, Babbaluga for real?
BABY LOSERS
Baby losers, we’ve got our name,
marching toward futures wild and untame,
from a bizarre mix of acid and molasses,
THE DROWNING MAN
Minstrels of old songs,
grandparents on the go,
through Madonna shrines and life’s linear show
Nilakshi Borgohain nee Gogoi.
CAMELLIAS
Daddy and I planted camellias,
a haven where their radiance inspire,
and blooms greet this new millennia.
Pradeep Biswal
The Beauty’s Soliloquy
The Dream Beauty says
I too, perhaps, appear
in her dreams sometimes,
teasing and flustering her ,
playing games with her
in so many ways.
Robert Harle
The Abyss
Sounds come and go too fast
they are trembling in my head,
noisy echoes from a distant past
Subhransu Maitra
TUMULT ON A SPRING NIGHT
When an unseasonal storm
gathers, strikes and plunges
in the fragile sphere of spring,
SEVEN-DAY SPRING WAYLAID BY SHIMOOL TREES IN KOLKATA
In an ungrieving mournful homage
to kindred sky, kindred sunset,
kindred minds and tenacious affinities
with affectionate spring evenings,
ON A FABLED PORTRAIT (ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, KOLKATA)
Those dear limbs,
those flammable creases of sari,
so proudly achieved through
subversive nurture of longing
Dr. Jagdish Batra
Remembering Rome: Some Pleasant Surprises
Rome, also referred to as The Eternal City is home to western civilization, after Greece. For
literature-lovers, it holds special attraction. I‟ll give 4 out of 5 marks to my Rome visit as compared
to 2 to Paris.
The Pranayama of Life
The Pranayama of Life
Life is a musical note, Life is a magical entity,
Love is pure, serene and magical,
Love is the mere breath of life,
It is boundless and seamless,
Fall in love with the morning you wake up to afresh.
By Christina Wilson
Dante’s Inferno: Society’s ironic normalization and mindless impetus to betrayal
Over the last century, society has normalized what should never have become normal. I am not speaking about progressive politics, economic policy, or the erosion of civil liberties, though each deserves serious debate. I am speaking about something more fundamental: the collapse of integrity.
Diksha Sehi
SHE OWNS HER FUTURE
The Roadmap from Financial Education to True Women Empowerment
In today’s world, there is no stone unturned by her. Her presence is felt everywhere. She had made her remarkable presence in all aspects of life and society.
Alas!!! She is not present at the table as an integral part of the process of making decisions for her OWN FINANCES.
Ram Krishna Singh
SEARCHING MY FIRST HAIKU
Two years ago, a Pune-poet Kala Ramesh contacted me to know when I wrote and published my first haiku. While browsing my diaries to find the haiku, I discovered several poems composed decades ago without knowing that these could be haiku.Smriti Bhatia
Entrepreneurship and Leadership
How many of us think that an entrepreneur are born with it? How many of us sweat over the thought of being one? If we have to imagine the life of an entrepreneur, what would it be? Is entrepreneurship only about earning?
Santosh Kumar Pokharel
A Diplomatic History of the Second World War: Causes, Consequences, and the Post-War Settlement (1939–1945)
The Second World War did not erupt from nowhere. It grew directly from the failures of the First. The Treaty of Versailles had humiliated Germany without destroying its potential for resurgence.¹ The League of Nations had promised collective security but delivered nothing.²
Swarnali Choudhury
“I Am the Last of the Stars”: Co-constructing SRK’s Re-invented Star Persona Through Global Fandom and Divisive Discourses
Shah Rukh Khan, a name and a persona globally admired, returned to the silver screen in 2023 after a five-year long break with a spy-thriller named Pathaan. The curtains were merely rising, when he decided to amaze the globe two more times with Jawan and Dunki, consecutively in
the same year, ruling the box-office like a „KING‟.
Suyog Umarao Gajbhiye
“AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF ONLINE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN INDIA”
India’s digital commerce story is extraordinary. From 2.2 billion UPI transactions in 2019 to over 117 billion in 2023 (NPCI, 2023), the velocity of change has no global parallel. Government catalysts — demonetization (2016), Digital India, Jan Dhan Yojana — combined with COVID-19’s
behavioral reset and cheap smartphone penetration created a perfect storm for digital adoption.
Dr Dalip Khetarpal
Apophenia: A Flawless Human Cognition and Its Manifestation in Metaphysical Poetry
The human mind is perhaps the most extraordinary pattern-recognition system in existence. It constantly searches for connections, meanings, and relationships among the countless impressions it receives from the world.
Dr Dalip Khetarpal
A brief critical analysis of Robert Maddox-Harle’s Creativity, Chance and the Role of the Unconscious in the Creation of Original Literature.
Rob Harle’s cutting-edge vision redefines creativity as a process shaped not only by conscious effort, but also by hidden mental activity and the unpredictable influence of chance.
D.C. Chambial‟s Critique
Rajamouly Katta’s poem “Time”: An Interpretation
Time has been defined as “the definite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, to the future. Time is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in conscious experience
Musharraf Ali
A Historical Academic Critique of “Muslim Society: An Analysis”
The article opens with a sweeping claim regarding the global oppression of Muslims. While such concerns are historically grounded in specific contexts—such as colonial subjugation, post-colonial conflicts, and contemporary geopolitical tensions—the claim is presented without temporal or regional qualification.
Dr. Rajamouly Katta
Life in Time: Larkin’s Perspective of Death, “A Black-sailed Unfamiliar”
Philip Larkin, the jewel of the galaxy of Movement writers, focuses on life in the reign of
time. It as the nucleus theme recurrently reflects in his poetry. For him, life flows in the river of time’s inexorable flow.
Dr. Kavitha Gopalakrishnan
Reviews
Between Simplicity and Profundity: Mapping Alexander Raju’s Literary Landscape, as detailed in Critical Studies on Alexander Raju
The publication of Critical Studies on Alexander Raju marks a significant milestone in contemporary Indian English literary scholarship. This comprehensive volume, edited by Dr. K. V. Dominic, brings together forty-five critical articles that examine the multifaceted literary contributions of Alexander Raju, a prolific writer from Kerala whose work spans novels, poetry, short stories, and critical essays.
Prof. A. Rama Krishna Rao, (Retd.)
“The Art of Speaking: The Art of Arts is an essential resource for anyone faced with any kind of speaking situation.”
There has been a shift in hypothesis from teacher training to teacher education and from teacher education to teacher development. As a result, quality improvement through professional development has become the need in English Language Teaching.
Dr. D. C. Chambial
Cherished Cherries
Poetry of Plenteous Premises
Dr. K. Rajamouly, a Ph. D, on the concept of Time in Philip Larkin‘s poetry, is multifaceted personality: Professor of English, poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, and translator all in one. He has more than forty books and more than fifty critical articles to his credit
Rajamouly Katta
POETRY FOR REFORM: SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA’S
“THE DOOR IS HALF OPEN”
Every poet lets us listen to his heartthrobs for our heart-responses. It is his primary goal and bounden responsibility to describe events, incidents, experiences, dilemmas, problems, etc that he glimpses and witnesses in life.
Rajamouly Katta
POETRY FOR REFORM: SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA’S
“THE DOOR IS HALF OPEN”
Every poet lets us listen to his heartthrobs for our heart-responses. It is his primary goal and bounden responsibility to describe events, incidents, experiences, dilemmas, problems, etc that he glimpses and witnesses in life.
Robert Maddox-Harle
The Enigmatic Poetry of PCK Prem
There is an enigmatic almost mystical quality to many of Prem’s poems, which contrasts with the humanist qualities, which are quite clear. He explores the mystery of existence by delving deeply into the day-to-day affairs of humans, their relationships with each other, with nature, and with those in positions of power, including the gods.
Agnij Upmanyu
Endless Blessings
In Every trail ,Blessings are abound ,
Confirms victory that is deep found .
Blessings are yet supplement of hope,
A beautiful well with a success’s rope.
The Death
Oh! My death, Don’t weep.
Don’t worry,I don’t sleep.
I am one of the milion leaves ,
That fed but never destroyed.
