Editorial
Editorial
The Ideal Writer
In a world overflowing with words but hungry for real meaning, the ideal writer stands apart, not as a perfect genius, but as a quiet craftsman of the human soul.
At heart, the ideal writer is a deep observer. They slow down and truly see life as it is: the hidden emotions in a stranger’s eyes, the quiet stories in everyday moments. They set aside their own opinions to let reality speak for itself.
They practice empathic magic. Instead of writing about people, they step inside their hearts and minds. Their words make a reader in one city feel the exact pain or joy of someone halfway across the world—turning private feelings into shared understanding.
They speak with courageous honesty. They refuse easy clichés or safe opinions. They name the hard truths: our contradictions, our failures, our quiet wonders. They write to discover what they themselves think, and they invite readers to do the same.
They master disciplined craft. Every sentence is polished with care. They cut what doesn’t work, wrestle with rhythm, and choose the right word even if it takes hours. Skill serves the story, never the ego.
Above all, the ideal writer remains an eternal student. They keep reading, listening, and growing through every joy and heartbreak. They never stop learning.
The ideal writer is not measured by sales or awards. They are known by one quiet miracle: when a reader closes their book, they feel less alone, more alive, and strangely hopeful.
We don’t need more content. We need more of these writers.
The world is waiting—and somewhere, right now, one is picking up the pen.
Dr Dalip Khetarpal
Content
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March, 2026
Contributors | Poems | Page No. |
Adel Khozam | Worship; Betrayals | 1-2 |
Anneke Schouten-Buys | Awakening; Boxes; About Time | 3-4 |
Bharati Nayak | I Am Still A Pebble Very Ordinary | 5 |
Bob Mwangi Kihara | The Big Dance – a Song from the Heart of the Horn | 6-7 |
Dr. Ashokchakravarthy Tholana | Memories; Enlightenment | 8-9 |
Dr. Barbaros İrdelmen | Belle’s Dance; How much does it cost?; If it’s dark | 10-11 |
Dr. Esther Sujatha | Beauty of Birds | 12 |
Dr. Ezhil Vendhan | Skylark; An Intercede | 13-15 |
Dr. Ketaki Datta | Broke Dreams; Apocalypse | 16-17 |
Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta | Dystopia; Neverland; I Don’t Love You Anymore | 18-20 |
Gianpiero Actis | Water is alive; Magic of lost time | 21-22 |
Haada Sendoo | Seven prose poems; 11 aphorisms from “On Poetry” | 23-24 |
Iuliana Pasca | In the middle of myself; The fall | 25-26 |
Jyotirmaya Thakur | Bees; Wild; Elegy; Solitary; A Poet | 27-28 |
Lidia Chiarelli | Lights in the Rock Garden; Here Dreams Dwell; Winter Sunsets; View from the Cliff | 29-31 |
Maroof Shah | Range bael dolum; The Poet Calls; Khudayi Fojdar | 32-35 |
Natalia Fernandez | Transits; DNA; Minimalist | 36-38 |
Norberto Pannone | Birds Without Wings; I Raise My Glass | 39-41 |
Nurbek Norchay | We are a single leaf | 42 |
Rajendra Nath Dutta | Scythe and Spade | 43 |
Stanley H. Barkan | On the Brink; Long Life!; When I am Dead | 44-47 |
Timothee Bordenave | The Mansion; The wizard’s in love; Ode to the Sun | 48-49 |
Prachi Gupta | The Sacred Breath | 139 |
Contributors | Short Stories | Page No. |
Chitra Gopalakrishnan | Pocket Resistance | 50-59 |
Dr. Arun Daves | Halfsong | 60-62 |
Contributors | Essays | Page No. |
AtreyaSarma Uppaluri | A coup d’oeil of Literature & Culture with their roots | 63-70 |
Biswanath Kundu | The impacts of Revolution: Are we progressing or regressing? | 71-76 |
Musharraf Ali | The failure of Globalization and Trump’s Tariff War | 77-84 |
Contributors | Book Reviews | Page No. |
Prof. Jagdish Batra | Who is raising your children? | 85-87 |
Prof. Jagdish Batra | Love and Ego: A Russo-Ukrainian War Saga | 88-89 |
Contributors | Research Papers | Page No. |
Gillian Dooley | The Terrors of Dusklands and Northanger Abbey | 90-95 |
Nirmal Roy | The light of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita— Tuning, Sura Samya Yoga | 96-104 |
Rajesh Kumar | A Comparative Study on the Impact of T.S. Eliot on Modern Hindi Poetry | 105-117 |
Rajesh Kumar | The Significance of Interaction in the English Classroom | 118-121 |
Shaleen Kumar Singh | “The Deponent is neither a Rabel Nor a Murderer”: Mehurban Khan as Tragic Figure and Subaltern Voice in the Colonial Legal Text of the 1860 Mahua Dabar Proceedings | 122-138 |
Dr. Manoj Gupta | Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Human–Tiger Conflict | 140-147 |
Worship
Betrayals
Adel Khozam
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 1-2
Awakening
Boxes
About Time
Anneke Schouten-Buys
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 3-4
I Am Still A Pebble Very Ordinary
Bharati Nayak
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 5
The Big Dance – a Song from the Heart of the Horn
Bob Mwangi Kihar
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 6-7
MEMORIES
ENLIGHTENMENT
Dr. Ashok Chakravarthy Tholana
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 8-9
Belle’s Dance
How much does it cost?
If it’s dark
Dr Barbaros İrdelme
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 10-11
Beauty of Birds
Dr. S. Esther Juliet Sujatha
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 12
SKYLARK
AN INTERCEDE
Dr.Ezhil Vendhan
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 13-15
BROKE DREAMS
APOCALYPSE
Ketaki Dutta
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 16-17
DYSTOPIA
NEVERLAND
I DON’T LOVE YOU ANYMORE
Dr Sanjukta Dasgupta
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 18-20
Water is alive
Magic of lost time
Gianpiero Actis
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 21-22
Seven prose poems
11 aphorisms from “On Poetry”
Hadaa Sendoo
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 23-24
In the middle of myself
The fall
Iuliana Pasca
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 25-26
Bees
Wild
Elegy
Solitary
A Poet
Jyotirmaya Thakur
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 27-28
Lights in the Rock Garden (Torino “ville lumière”)
HERE DREAMS DWELL
WINTER SUNSETS
View from the Cliff
Lidia Chiarelli
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 29-31
Range bael dolum – Ahad Zargar
The Poet Calls: Hymn to the Morning and Praise of the Last Age…… Krishan Joo Razdan
Khudayi Fojdar
Maroof Shah
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 32-35
TRANSITS
DNA
MINIMALIST
Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 36-38
BIRDS WITHOUT WINGS
I RAISE MY GLASS
Norberto Pannone
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 39-41
We are a single leaf
Nodira Ibrahimova
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 42
Scythe and Spade
Rajendra Nath Dutta
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 43
ON THE BRINK
LONG LIFE!
WHEN I AM DEAD
Stanley H. Barkan
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 44-47
The Mansion
The wizard’s in love
Ode to the Sun
Timothee Bordenave
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 48-49
Pocket Resistance
Chitra Gopalakrishnan
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 50-59
HALFSONG
Dr. A. Arun Daves
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 60-62
A coup d’oeil of Literature & Culture with their roots
Atreya Sarma Uppaluri
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 63-70
The impacts of Revolution: Are we progressing or regressing?
Biswanath Kundu
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 71-76
The world today is changing rapidly from the one even a decade ago. This change has impacted human life both positively and negatively. Revolutions in the evolutions of false needs and dictatorship of commodities have altered the mapping of life of all. Poverty, inequality, injustice and lack of basic needs form the ground for a revolutionary upheaval. Besides this political revolution silently there has been another revolution. Almost everywhere man is now treated either as a client or as a consumer. The decline in the genuine feeling of sharing and caring is alarming. The concept of trades and commerce has been changed radically with digitalization. Man has forgotten to cultivate his intuition, nurture his god gifted talents in arts and creativity. Virtual teachers have replaced the physical teachers. Everywhere the relation seems to be valued in terms of economy. Humanoid robots are seen to assist the needy. This is revolution. But there is another revolution. Now a family of three members is seen conversing amongst them using cell phones. Once incurable diseases are now cured fast. But the surge of dishonest medicos and middlemen is ruinous. The very questions ‘are we progressing or regressing?’ naturally surface everywhere.
Key words:
Revolution, Dictatorship of commodities, Thought process, Dependence on tools, Virtual teachers, Human Identity,
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The Failure of Globalization and Trump’s Tariff War
Musharraf Ali
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 77-84
Who is raising your children?
Book Review by Jagdish Batra
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 85-87
Love and Ego: A Russo-Ukrainian War Saga
Book Review By Dr. Jagdish Batra
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 88-89
The Terrors of Dusklands and Northanger Abbey
Gillian Dooley
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 90-95
The light of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita— Tuning, Sura Samya Yoga, the Yoga of Harmony
Nirmal Roy
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 96-104
The paper submitted herewith tries to listen, understand and explain the sound of Shrimad Bhagavad Gita which teaches us the equanimity. In accordance with the verbal suggestions from Shri Krishna to Arjuna, in the empty state of ego, the body, mind, life and individuality are surrendered to the mind centre or the central thinking power and maintaining the mentality of being the right person to be happy when the work is successful and not being sad when the work is failed, if the mind is the same in all situations, the sense of equanimity is created.
This tuning into higher conscious becomes a tool for operation of spiritual, divine and material projects also. When the individual consciousness is established in the higher true consciousness through this tuning or harmony, a person can realise that he is truly enjoying everything.
Keywords: equanimity,yoga,peace, harmony, tuning, literature, music, painting, melody,balance.
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF T.S.ELIOT ON MODERN HINDI POETRY.
RAJESH KUMAR
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 105-117
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INTERACTION IN THE ENGLISH
CLASSROOM
RAJESH KUMAR
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 118-121
Techniques for Classroom Interaction
According to Interaction-Based Instruction, samples of the target language become available to the learner for interlanguage construction through classroom interaction. Through carefully designed classroom interaction activities, involving various forms ofmore or less realistic practice, learners can become skilled at actually doing the things they have been taught about. The problem is that the learners don’t know instinctively how to interact with each other. This research presents a number of teaching techniques that addresses the problems that EFLteachersface toprovidean interactive classroomcondition. These techniques are thestrategies of classroom interaction, such as questioning techniques and modification through cooperative method of learning. .
Keywords:
Questioning Technique; Interaction Hypothesis; Interaction-Based Instruction; Modification; Cooperative Learning
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“The Deponent Is Neither a Rebel Nor a Murderer”: Mehurban Khan as Tragic Figure and Subaltern Voice in the Colonial Legal Text of the 1860 Mahua Dabar Proceedings
Shaleen Kumar Singh
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 122-138
This paper discusses both the literary and historical document that is the criminal trial proceedings of an accessory to the murder of British officers at Mahua Dabar on 10 Junction 1857, Mehurban Kabaka, a burkundaz (armed constable) of the Captaingunj Tehseildaree. Based on the seminal essay of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? and on the study of the tragedy dramatic tradition and the research on the narrative of wrongful conviction, this paper interprets the depositions of Mehurban Khan as a more or less consistent act of subaltern self-construction: meaningful, self-contained, and ultimately repressed by the institutional framework of the colonial law. The paper will state that the Proceedings are an unwilling literary text where the formal limits of the genre of colonial deposition form a tragic form a figure of dignity and intelligence engulfed not by cumbers of evidence but by the ideological biases of the court. The analysis follows in five movements along with the following: the formal properties of the deposition as a literary genre; close reading of the literary strategies of Mehurban Khan to establish his narrative voice; the construction of guilt through the manipulation of the evidence; the tragedy of non-recognition by the institutions; the value of the corrective letter by G. Couper considered a metacommentary on the subject of colonial juridical performance. It is the conclusion of the paper that the voice of Mehurban Khan, unheard, persistent, and constant is one of the brightest examples of the colonial archive of what Spivak termed as the constitutive impossibility of subaltern speech in the frameworks of imperial epistemologies.
Keywords: subaltern studies, colonial legal discourse, Spivak, wrongful conviction narrative, 1857 Indian Rebellion, Mahua Dabar, tragedy, deposition genre, postcolonial literary criticism
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The Sacred Breath
Prachi Gupta
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 139
Socio-Ecological Dynamics of Human–Tiger Conflict in the Terai Landscape: A
Case Study of Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
Dr. Manoj Gupta
Afflatus Creations | Number-10, Volume-3 | March 2026 | Page 140-147
The Terai landscape of northern India represents a critical interface between biodiversity conservation and human livelihoods, where increasing populations of large carnivores intensify human–wildlife interactions. This study examines the socio-ecological dynamics of human–tiger conflict in Pilibhit Tiger Reserve using a Multi-Dimensional Coexistence Framework (MDCF). A mixed-methods approach was employed, integrating spatial analysis of conflict incidents, socio-economic surveys, field-based assessment of mitigation measures, and institutional evaluation. Data were collected between 2022 and 2024 from fringe villages within a 5–10 km radius of the reserve.
Spatial–temporal analysis revealed that conflict incidents are highly clustered in buffer zones, particularly in sugarcane-dominated agricultural landscapes that function as surrogate habitats for tigers. Seasonal peaks were observed during harvesting periods and monsoon months, indicating the influence of agricultural cycles and habitat dynamics on conflict occurrence. Socio-psychological findings indicated that while local communities recognize the ecological importance of tigers, tolerance levels remain low due to economic vulnerability, livestock losses, and inefficiencies in compensation mechanisms.
Assessment of technological and bio-physical interventions showed that measures such as fencing, solar deterrents, and rapid response systems are partially effective but constrained by maintenance and limited community integration. Institutional analysis highlighted gaps in coordination, resource allocation, and participatory governance despite the presence of strong policy frameworks under Project Tiger.
The study demonstrates that human–tiger conflict in the Terai is a complex socio-ecological issue shaped by interactions between landscape features, human perceptions, and governance structures. It emphasizes that sustainable coexistence requires integrated strategies combining spatial planning, community engagement, improved compensation systems, and adaptive governance. The MDCF approach provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and mitigating conflict, with implications for conservation policy and practice in similar human-dominated landscapes.
Keywords
Human–tiger conflict; Terai landscape; Pilibhit Tiger Reserve; socio-ecological systems; Multi-Dimensional Coexistence Framework (MDCF); spatial analysis; community perception; conflict mitigation; conservation governance; India
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