Dr. Shaleen Kumar Singh
Editorial
Every issue of our journal is a journey and a place, a meeting of the voices of all the continents, all
traditions and the constantly broadening horizon of human imagination.
Dr. A. Arun Daves
Epistle to Dear Lucian
Dear Lucian, hear beneath these quiet skies,
A mourning song where countless silence lies.
Where The River Begins
Where mountain keeps its ancient watch,
Above the clouds and pines,
A voice was formed from silent stone,
Enduring through all time.
Bharati Nayak
My Creativity Is My Refuse
When I feel hurt by words and behaviour, rough and acidic That lacerate my heart deep within
I take refuge in my creativity
There my pen weeps instead of my eyes.
High Time To Go
You said, it is high time
I should go.
I said to myself
It is high time
I should go.
Concetta La Placa
CHILDHOOD BETRAYED.
A cry of profound pain
rises in these hours
throughout the universe.
POIGNANT LONELINESS’.
The silence is like a shock wave for the soul.
It invests me and pulls me into a rare sonorous depth of melancholy.
Germain Droogenbroodt
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Rivers overflow their banks
houses are demolished
cars swept away
by the raging waters:
man has disrupted nature.
WHAT WILL REMAIN
Everything that ever lived
is sooner or later erased by time.
PETRIFIED
At the town square
stands the statue
of a war hero.
A few haiku
Unconcerned rosy
announcing upcoming spring
apricot blossoms
Gopal Lahiri
Blue Hour
There is another world inside this one.
Surreal Night
Tonight, there will be no sleep for me,
no words but the memories fall from the leaps of night and capture the strong wind,
Ancient Storytellers
Walking along the windy forest path I do not
look back on anything.
Ivan Pozzoni
THE TEMPTATION TO EXIST
The temptation to exist of your generation,
transforms, in mine, into an existence attempted by equation:
19 + 19 = 38 + x, always remains an unknown,
ATELIER
In the late modern of the ancient western world,
every Atelier is transformed in our hands, from a craftsman’s shop,
HOLY SHIT, WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE BUKOWSKI?
It’s not easy to be at 2:25 in the morning, with a drink in front of you, tapping away on the keys,
i would never want my detractors, or the parasites, to accuse me of imitating Bukowski,
Maria Cristina Azcona
Planet Earth´s Prayer
Lord I wish that you who hold me tight Will help me to be patient and blameless To remain me that you talked to my insight Of your love through Jesus Nazarene
Bullet train
Audacious, fleeting fugitive
Six hundred, kilometres in an hour Like silver bullet in high arrogance A symbol of an era decadent
Nisha Motghare
WELCOME NEW CREATION
In the welcome of new creation, a sense of disorientation emerged.
The wings of desires, once stretched to the far horizon, have now folded in.
A profound silence settled within the cells
THE PURPOSE OF LIVING
The world is changing within me,
Happiness murmurs with glee.
Dr. Rajamouly Katta
Sculptures of Musings
Musings are fantastic
Fanciful as well as artful
Away from outer senses
As a concealed treasure
Musings dawn
Good Hearts
I love to see the people
With good hearts
They wish human welfare,
Musings Like Lightning
Musings dawn in my mind for full delight,
For beauty and truth, they are singular,
Like lightning in the welkin to shine bright.
Dr. Ratan Ghosh
God is dead
Thousands, Millions Billions
Leaving the mythical honey trap
Leaving the fathom full of hate-sea
Leaving the path full of darkness
Gone enough
Gone enough
in my river of pain!
Innumerable stars lost like floating hyacinth
Perhaps floating still on a flooded stream
Innumerable still fortunately surviving like a caged bird
However, every day they pass
through lightening of threats!
I am not a Lotus Eater
I have no time to live
in a den of pleasure
I can’t wane my time
in a Lotus land
Where sleepers sleeping for decades
I can’t…
Shujaat Hussain
STRENGTHEN ME TO FACE PROBLEMS
O God!
Before death conquers
Strengthen me to face more problems
Bless me to play with the waves and storms
Increase wisdom and dispel fear
Dr. A. Arun Daves
“The Lion Who Died Standing”
A Folk Tale for Those Whose Worth Is Ignored
In the hidden world of Aetherpine, where the trees touched the stars and rivers spoke forgotten names, there once lived a lion named Kaelor.
Musharraf Ali
Jinnat
Outwardly, Maulana Shameem’s eyes were fixed on the calendar hanging on the wall that depicted Mecca and Medina, but his mind was lost elsewhere.
SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
No one can recall that they were stunned into silence followed by indescribable stress if they were told that they had been invited to a birthday party.
Ivan Pozzoni
The Kolektivne NSEAE militant hijacking movement against the Papal State Italian art
Hijacking has been defined by Douglas B. Holt—in a more modernist vein—as “[…] turning expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself[…]”
Ivan Pozzoni
The late-modernism
Giorgio Linguaglossa raises a crucial question about the concept of art: «How and where to orient the search for the new poetic language?».
Dr. Shujaat Hussain
Khetarpal’s Voice of Poetry Defends Indian Culture and Its Glory
Milton’s characters, for the most part, are products of imagination. By contrast, Dr. Dalip Khetarpal creates his figures out of lived experience and cultural reality.
Dr Dalip Khetarpal
Robert Maddox-Harle’s Scratches and Deeper Wounds—an analytical Study
Rob Harle, also known as Robert Maddox-Harle, is a poet, editor, artist, and reviewer living in Lismore, Australia. He was born in 1948 in Sydney, Australia, has a background in art, architecture, writing, and psychotherapy.
Dr. Manas Bakshi
A WEIRD FUSION
I often perceive a fusion of contrasting melodies
resonating through the air:
one emanating from a brothel-
coarse and base, while the other rises
from a temple, sacred and serene.
Jen Walls
INTRODUCTION
Dr. Rajamouly Katta is surely a dynamic multi-dimensional author, essayist, poet, and educator.
Dr. T. Vasudeva Reddy
“Kavitanjali: Multiple Aspects of Love and Life”
Prof TV Reddy, Poet, short story writer, novelist, critic, Thirupathi
Katta Rajamouly is a familiar name and not a new voice in Indian writing in English, particularly in the field of Indian poetry in English.
Maria Cristina Azcona
Review to the book “A Crown of Roses”
Author: Sayumi Kamakura
“A Crown of Roses” is a bilingual book of Haiku poetry by Sayumi Kamakura. The book provides a Japanese version by the author herself and translation to English, provided by James Shea and Jim Kacian.
Dr. Madhavi Latha
Dr. Dipak Giri’s Dalit Autobiography: A Critical Study: A Review
Dipak Giri’s Dalit Autobiography: A Critical Study brings together critical studies on notable Dalit autobiographers—both men and women—exploring how their works reflect alienation, resilience, gendered oppression, and the fight for dignity.
Dr. Rajamouly Katta
V. iv: Classics in Translation
“Sri Ramacharitamanasa: A Classical Epic of Values and Relations”
Sri Ramacharitamanasa, a classical epic of values and relations is Goswami Tulasidas’
Hindi translation of Valmiki’s Ramayana in Sanskrit.
Dr. Rajamouly Katta
Critical Appreciation of Wordsworth’s and Robert Frost’s Poems
‘Solitary Reaper’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’
in Comparison and Contrast
Wordsworth and Robert Frost are well-known nature poets, but they vary from each other in the treatment of nature. They love to live in nature. Nature is their most important subject. Their love of nature persisted throughout their careers, and it is evident in their poetry
Dr. Durga Patva
Voicing the Unspeakable: Cathy Caruth and the Language of Trauma in Toni
Morrison’s Beloved
This paper explores Cathy Caruth’s trauma theory in relation to Toni Morrison’s Beloved examining how language becomes a medium to voice the unspeakable wounds of slavery. Through Caruth’s lens, Morrison’s narrative reveals trauma as a haunting presence that resists direct representation, emerging instead through fragmented memory, silence, and repetition. The novel becomes a site where the unspoken finds expression, embodying the complexities of remembering and bearing witness.
Dr. Uma & Dr. Kalpna Rajput
Traditional Indian Knowledge in Modern Stories: How IKS Shapes Themes and Characters in Indian English Literature
There are deep models found in Indian English Literature (IEL) that can offer describing characters motivations and dilemmas. Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) BAIF Postgraduate Institute of Rural Development. Dharma, a virtue, means righteousness, moral order and duties. Moreover, karma refers to action and its consequences.
Piers Davies
MID-SUMMER HAIKU
no birds are singing
even strident water-play is stifled by heat
Timothée Bordenave
Journey Through Words, Colors, and Faith
I, Timothée Bordenave, walk through my beloved Paris carrying notebooks that bridge my literary and visual worlds.
Timothée Bordenave
Compass and Shadow
Hand-Drawn Impossibilities: A Personal Exploration
I, Timothée Bordenave, walk through my beloved Paris carrying notebooks that bridge my literary and visual worlds.
Dr Jagdish Batra
Sri Aurobindo’s vision of India and the world
Every year, when we celebrate Independence Day, we are reminded of Sri Aurobindo, whose birthday also falls on August 15. What a great coincidence! Aurobindo had predicted the rise of India and its independence was surely the first step towards the fulfilment of that vision.
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