5 feet 5 inch Run Machine - Sachin Tendulkar [Paperback]

Paperback: 140 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net (October 15, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 8182533457

ISBN-13: 978-8182533455


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If the extraordinary league of heroes from all fields will be made, Sachin will get the responsibility of captain.

　

Sachin’s presence makes Indain team easy to intimidate opponent and difficult to get intimidated, easy to be victorious and difficult to be looser.

　

Sachin scored so many runs by his leg glance shot alone that a other batsman might have scored in his life time.

5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine this book has the 400 quotes/insights written on Sachin Tendulkar by Me. The title of the book is self explanatory. These quotes explain his batting excellence, his noble character and people s love and feelings for him. As soon as you read the quote you will find that you have experienced the explanation in the quote in your life while watching Sachin s batting. The quotes are written with relevant metaphors and sensitivity because Sachin s batting is both best and beautiful. Few quotes in the book are written in accordance with my 6 Amit.B.Kalantri personal experiences while I watched his batting. There are few quotes said by the renowned cricketers of the world for Sachin. But this book does not include those quotes. The quotes are original and new written by author who is great fan of Sachin Tendulkar.

About the Author: Amit Kalantri has authored two books including this one. His other work is I Love You Too a book with romantic insights. Amit Kalantri is a 2009 batch Electronics and Telecomm engineer from VIIT, Pune. He is currently working with an IT firm in Pune. His interest lies in writing movie scripts, making advertisements and writing blogs. Amit has written and directed two ads for internet media for Airtel and Pepsi.

Maryada - In Rendition

Maryada - In Rendition (English and Hindi Edition) [Paperback]

Paperback: 75 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net; 1 edition (November 1, 2012)

Language: English, Hindi

ISBN-10: 8182533503

ISBN-13: 978-8182533509

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MARYADA, a larger than life word, is second skin. In common parlance, it signifies right and freedom to dignity to respect, laced with limitations if at all. On the higher plane, it signifies Godlike qualities and has been equated with God himself Maryada Purushottam Ram ! As the owner of this name, I had the privilege to embrace the whole meaning and significance of this massive word. The right to self respect and dignity on the one hand and embracing self imposed limitations on the other. The formula I have absorbed to live that dignity. It never meant limitation in the narrow sense. Instead it the freedom thrust upon me to enlarge my Self to fit into the largesse of this word!

About the Author

Abha Maryada Banerjee is India's first internationally acclaimed Woman motivational speaker rated as one of the prominent Leadership,Performance and Success Coaches/Speakers in Asia Pacific. A die hard expressionist , she is prolific in her conduct and words to convey LIFE , SUCCESS and INSPIRATION . In her words, Poetry is not my forte but Life definitely is, I never let a moment go by without living it. And then is my big purpose to convey inspiration in all it s glory for people to grow, seek and become fully functioning human beings. My life is a result of inspiration and if I have to inspire, I will go all out and embrace whatever allows me to reach that purpose and this time, it is poetry. My mind refuses to see limitation and that is what is being conveyed even now. What I convey in my words is totally uninhibited, absolutely real and practically do-able. I never knew I could write poetry, now that I have been able to, my belief in human possibility has been reconfirmed yet again. Described as Inspirational, Eclectic, Maverick, Thought innovator, Leader Extraordinaire, Mentalist, Experience Converter, Humor Machine and humble beyond belief, she is also fondly called Asian Oprah and Asian Woman Motivator . Abha has spoken at prestigious forums across Asia Pacific as Motivational and Leadership Speaker and also as a representative of the Indian way of life. She has impacted thousands of People and Business across the World in performance enhancement. She is gifted with the unique ability to get people to take action to reach their fullest potential and professes Personal Mastery for individuals and Emotional Fitness for Corporate to reach their excellence potential.

T.Wignesan

T.Wignesan

T.Wignesan: Born in Kuala Krai, Malaysia. Up to his twenty-first year in Singapore, India, and Malaysia; then in London, Heidelberg, West Berlin, Madrid, and Paris. Education: After only four years of schooling at Batu Road School and the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur (1946- 1949: dropped out in 1950); school and higher school certificates (Cambridge University: 1951 (SC: 9 subjects - Grade One) & 1953 (HSC: 1 A-level & 3 O-levels), and London University GCE: 4 A-levels and 1 O-level - 1955); Bar studies at the Inns of Court School of Law, London (1953-56); began doctoral dissertation in Philosophy (epistemology) at Heidelberg Universität and Freien Universität in West Berlin (1957-58); Hispanic Studies in Madrid (1968-72): Escuela Oficial de Idiomas: 3rd Year Certificates in language, literature & civilization: 1968-70; Universidad de Madrid: Diploma in Hispanic Studies, 1971 (1970-72) and Instituto de la Cultura Hispanica (M.A. course in Hispano-Filipino studies:1971-72); Université de Paris-VIII [Equivalence in Spanish Literature for the Licence: 1972; Maitrise d’Enseignement d’Espagnol: 1973]; Comparative Literature: Sorbonne-Nouvelle (1973-83); Aesthetics-Poietics: Université de Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne [Doctorat d’Etat ès lettres et sciences humaines: March 1987. Viva scheduled at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle for June 3, 1983 postponed sine die due to jury mishap]. Extraordinary Prize in Hispanic Studies at Madrid University (1971). Distinctions: Très Bien for the Master’s degree and Très Honorable à l’unanimité (summa cum laude) for the doctorate.

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Jan Oskar Hansen

Jan Oskar Hansen

Jan Oskar Hansen is a poet, story teller and seafarer, born in Stavanger, Norway. He joined the merchant navy at 15 and spent most of his life at sea until settling in the early 90's in Portugal. His poetry has been widely published in hard copy and online, worldwide. Reviewers have generally commented that a love and honoring of living things stands out in Hansen's work, and deep humility; that it reveals with unflinching honesty man's shortcomings in his efforts to love, telling what there is to tell in a first person, deeply resident universal voice. The poet is widely read and fluent in several languages, knowledge often acquired at night during his many years at sea. He chose to write primarily in English following enthusiastic reception of his work from English-speaking editors and readeffrs. His poems have been published in over 20 literary magazines worldwide, including: Hudson Review, USA, Skyline, USA, Skald, Wales, La rue Bella, England, The Bards, England, War is a dangerous place, England, The Black Mountain Review, Ireland, ARS Poetica India, India, Metvere Muse, India, Poets International, India, Braquemard, England, Fvirefly Magazine, USA, Pphoo, India, Taj Mahal Review, India, Remark Magazine, USA, Journal Of Anglo-Scandianvian Poetry, England.

Jan Oskar Hansen's book at GLOWINSKIS'  LIBRARY- Poland - Polska (Catalogue No. 8994 - 96)

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Insomnia of Life [Paperback] by Abhijith Jayanthi

Insomnia of Life [Paperback] by Abhijith Jayanthi

Paperback: 39 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net (September 25, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 8182533368

ISBN-13: 978-8182533363

Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces

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Abhijith Jayanti's latest poetry collection "Insomnia of Life" reveals an exuberant poetic fervour. His poems show that he is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable poetic genius. As a craftsman, he is most convincing and most alive. His depths and heights of emotions are evident in these poems.

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Insomnia of Life is a collection of poems which speak about human emotions and how one should learn from nature and her marvels - bonding between nature and her children; trust equation in a human relation; passion in our expectations from love and beyond. When we are on a high, emotions keep us happy and grounded; and when we are low - emotions provide us with warmth and bring back the smile - that curve which can set any situation straight.

It is these emotions which give us a sense of belonging, help us live happily and not feel melancholic - a sleepy existence. Every moment is colorful and joyful, it is we who do not take notice of it, if we can - one can find happiness in tiny gestures and warm emotions. Life has offered me many complex emotions and these poems are few of my prized pearls from my oyster - written during various trysts with my emotions.

About the Author

Abhijith's method in the madness (read: world) so far in life has been that whenever conventional wisdom has tried to show him the path, he has always followed his heart taken the diametrically opposite one. That explains his passion for letters and his interest in writing.

A free spirited IIT Delhi Alumnus, Abhijith is a post modernist in his thoughts and writing. Conveniently single, music happy and a passionate foodie - he loves traveling and documenting his experiences.

A World Rediscovered (An Anthology of Contemporary Verse)

A World Rediscovered (An Anthology of Contemporary Verse)  Edited by Jean LeBlanc

Paperback: 104 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net (September 26, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 8182533376

ISBN-13: 978-8182533370

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Poetry and A World Rediscovered

"Swimmers in factual waters / disinventing depth...." Those opening lines of Chuck Tripi’s poem, "Proof," stand as an apt definition of poets and their paradoxical ways. Poets (and in fact all artists) operate in the known universe, subject to the same laws of physics as everyone else. And yet, poets can disinvent depth, can rise to the surface, are called upward into the light that they themselves can also create. There is this world. And then, there is this world rediscovered. And for that, we have the poets to thank.

I have always believed that poets and scientists have a lot to learn from each other. In A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking asks, "Why do we remember the past but not the future?" It is the only question of Dr. Hawking’s I feel I can answer: Poets do remember the future—that is precisely how poets spend their days, remembering the future. It is lovely to think of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility," as William Wordsworth wrote, but we poets know it is more like a place of turmoil rather than tranquility. Poets write of desire and want, because the future—well, you do not have to be a poet to remember what that will bring. Poets remember the future and celebrate the present. The result is haunting, whether one has written the poem or has read it.

The haiku poets have always known this. Ban’ya Natsuishi writes: A golden hand / from the dimple / of a muddy lake —and you are there, on the slippery banks of that muddy lake, and—and!—the golden hand is yours. Will be yours. Was yours. The haiku has left you bereft of the false comfort of measured time. Past, present, future are all now. The power of the image knocks us from the known world that made that image possible. Fortunately, a poet is there to remember, and to remind.

In the pages that follow, the reader will remember many futures. "Look: / You have become..." George Lightcap begins in "Poem for Myself at Age Seventeen from Me at Fifty-Four," as he disinvents time in a tone both humorous and poignant. A kindred humor and poignancy is found in "When Meeting Beauty" by Jan Oskar Hansen. Robin Linn disinvents the distinctions of personal space in "Capital of Learning," with its shifting perspectives and disconcerting cityscape. Sayumi Kamakura writes, "Though the lilies flower, / I couldn’t shorten / the distance between us"—and there again, the reader will hold his or her breath, and think, "How did this poet see me, see my world, see my future?"

"I couldn’t shorten the distance between us." And yet, Kamakura has shortened it. All the poets in this anthology have disinvented distance. This is the power of art. A poet’s choice of a word, an artist’s choice of color, a dancer’s choice of how to move her hand makes the experience of art an experience of reality, a real world unto itself, rather than a reflection of a world. I almost wrote, "So many of the poems in this anthology celebrate creation," which would have been foolish. They all celebrate creation.

Physicists, if you want to see string theory at work, multiple universes wherein every possibility exists at once, you need look no further than poetry. But "who can bear to believe this report?" asks Albert U. Turner in his poem in the voice of Arctic explorer Matthew Henson. Who can bear to believe, indeed. It would be easier, perhaps, to shut one’s mind to these reports the poets bring us from these other worlds, reports of longing, of the tenuous beauty of our days, of future memories that stop the heart.

The poets stand with the scientists on one side, and the philosophers on the other. In The Sense of Beauty, George Santayana wrote, "The real world is merely the shadow of that assurance of eventual experience which accompanies sanity." Shadow...assurance...experience—again, the stuff of poetry. Reader, did you realize when you picked up this beautiful book, that you were holding in your hands the manifestation of science and philosophy? You did realize. That is what poetry is, after all. You know you hold here a world rediscovered, a new world with each turn of the page. Your world. Remember—here it comes.

Jean LeBlanc

Newton, New Jersey, U.S.A.

September, 2012

Unscented Flowers by Uttiya Sarkar

Paperback: 66 pages

Publisher: Rochak Publishing (August 30, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9381696047

ISBN-13: 978-9381696040

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Uttiya Sarkar has been writing poems from his childhood but was unable to publish them. He wrote most frequently during the Higher Secondary level. It was then his first poems appeared in Hindi in an anthology published by the District Literary Council, Jamtara. Finally he managed to publish his first collection UNSCENTED FLOWERS from Cyberwit Publications. Currently Mr.Uttiya Sarkar is the Head of Deaprtment, English, Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur and the Chief Co-ordinator, AICTE-EDC,SKSgi,Durgapur. His extensive traveling and his personal experiences has given shape to his futile mind of poetry. Someone has commented on him saying that his ideas are more matured than his age.

LET ME PRAISE YOU

Let me praise you !

No ! it is not articulation,

Or decoration of words,

I say my words from the core of my heart.

Thy image ! made graceful

Weaves into my mind,

Like a spider web.

Its cream, the complexion;

The voice more you know (sweeter),

Upon the fever of my life..

They are the dew drops from heaven.

I love that black long hair;

The artistic fingers.

(cant tell anything about the lips)

For they are artificial.

And the eyes!

Oh ! they are marvelous!

May be more;

If she puts on "kajol"

What more can I wish

In a dear friend as she?



Harvests of New Millennium VOLUME 5 NUMBER 1 JAN. 2012

Paperback: 130 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net (February 2, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0009740023

ISBN-13: 978-0009740022

Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.5 x 0.5 inches



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Art & Poetry

 "In listening to a concert, the music-lover experiences a joy qualitatively different from that experienced in listening to natural sounds, such as the murmur of a stream. Similarly modern painters provide artistic sensations due exclusively to the harmony of lights and shades and independent of the subject depicted in the picture."

– Parisian art critic and poet Guillaume Apollinairey



Taj Mahal Review

ISSN 0972 - 6004  VOLUME 10  NUMBER 1 JUNE 2011

Cyberwit’s International Journal

Devoted to Arts, Literature, Poetry & Culture

 

Editor

Dr. Santosh Kumar

Editorial Advisor

Maria Cristina Azcona

Ban'ya Natsuishi

Managing Editor

Karunesh Kumar Agrawal

 

To Contributors

We accept published, unpublished and also simultaneous creations, but Taj Mahal Review does not publish anonymous writings. The matter sent for publication must be an original creation of the author. Please give your full address, e-mail, and personal profile while submitting your work. For submitting your works log on to

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From the Editor

T

aj Mahal Review represents quality and variety. This issue includes a comprehensive selection of most remarkable artwork, poems, haiku, short stories, book reviews, literary criticism. Taj features distinctive voice of creative artists across the globe. Our mission is toward the promotion of creative writings world-wide. The very best poems, haiku and short stories add to our insight into so many cultures from so many voices.

Osama Bin Laden is dead, as the US forces launched a unilateral attack inside Abbottabad in Pakistan. It is very sad that Al-Qaeda has pledged to attack Western targets. The whole world is still haunted by tragic 9/11 when the twin towers fell, and more than three thousand innocent people died. The brutality and stupidity of terrorism confirms contemporary barbarism. The authors should advocate peace to make our planet better. Blessed are the peacemakers. Paradise is here, if "the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid" (Issaih XI, 6).

Barth’s essay "The Literature of Exhaustion" reveals that there is nothing left for the contemporary author to inspire. That is why several postmodern writers indulge in parody of their great predecessors.

I am very grateful to all artists included in this issue for their kind support and cooperation. Many thanks again to these creative artists for their generous help in bringing out this edition.

Best Wishes.

-Santosh Kumar

Contributors

REFLECTIONS
Mimi Ferebee
Moshé Liba
Richard Araujo
William Matthew McCarter 

LITERARY CRITICISM
Michael D. Sollars 

SHORT STORIES
Albert Russo
Andrew McIntyre
Chen-ou Liu
D Everett Newell
D. R. Prescott
Eric Tessier
Floriana Hall
Gary Alexander Azerier
James Skinner
Joseph Aprile
Larissa Douglass
Raymund P. Reyes
Robert Wexelblatt
Stephen Shepherd
Steve Mogg
Steve Morris 

POEMS
Akshat "The Reflection" Sharma
Albert Russo
Azsacra Zarathustra
Blair Ewing
Changming Yuan
Cherri Randall
Daniel S. Liuzzi
D Everett Newell
D H Sutherland
Fran Shaw
G David Schwartz
Harlan D. Whatley
Jan Oskar Hansen
Jean LeBlanc
John F. Buckley
John Ryan
John Sibley Williams
Joseph Ferguson
June Nandy
Katya Ganeshi
Krishna P. Chakravorty
Lamont Palmer
Lance Nizami
Maryse Schouella
Matthew Roberts
Rose Marie Streeter
Ruth Sabath Rosenthal
Shayla Hawkins
Shirley Bolstok
Stephanie Campbell
Sonnet Mondal
Suzie Palmer
Sweta Srivastava Vikram
Victoria L. Weaver
Walter Ruhlmann 

HAIKUAdám Bogár
Ban’ya Natsuishi
Bill Cooper
Bill Wolak
John Mcdonald
Moshé Liba
Nola Terrassin
Santiago B. Villafania
Sayumi Kamakura
Shirley Bolstok
Steven Carter
Suzie Palmer
Yuko TANGE 

GEMS OF THOUGHTS

ARTWORKSEleanor Leonne Bennett 

REVIEWS
Anil CS Rao as a poet

 

Conduits to Heart & Soul by D Everett Newell

Conduits to Heart & Soul by D Everett Newell

 

Paperback: 179 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net (September 1, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 8182532906  ISBN-13: 978-8182532908

"Consistency is a direct correlation to credibility"
                                      – D Everett Newell




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Back Cover Pic Photogaphy by Dennis E Newell, "Sachs Covered Bridge" Gettysburg PA

     D Everett Newell's latest poetry collection Conduits to Heart & Soul reveals the universalizing quality of his genius. His depths and heights of inner feeling are unsurpassable. In all these poems, we find his gifted poetic craftsmanship. An exquisite variety of glistening images will certainly attract the reader's eye. Newell shows beauty of style blended with profundity of thought. Conduits to Heart & Soul confirms the fact that D Everett Newell is undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary poets.
                                                                   - Dr. Santosh Kumar, Editor, Cyberwit.net

     The poems included in Conduits to Heart & Soul will please all classes of readers. This makes the book more valuable and creative. With this book the author D Everett Newell has acquired the position of a major English poet. "Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you" (Jim Morrison). This quote is fully applicable to Conduits to Heart & Soul  by D Everett Newell.
                                                - Karunesh Kumar Agrawal, Mangaing Editor, Cyberwit.net

THE AUTHOR

My name is Dennis Everett Newell; I am called in no certain order, Denny, Den, Big D, D Everett, and Dennis. It’s funny, but I can usually tell by how someone calls my name, what time in my life we shared. I guess there are many layers to a life that has now spanned 58 years. My middle name, Everett, has been passed down in our family since the Civil War. My great-great-grandfather’s name was Darius Newell, who named his son Silas Everett Newell, my great-grandfather. He in turn named his son John Everett Newell, my grandfather, who then in turn named my dad, John Everett Newell Jr. My dad named me Dennis Everett Newell, and my son is Corey Everett Newell.

Poetry is my way of slaying the inner dragons within my mind, thus allowing my inner feelings and passions to escape - my relief valve if you will! I draw on my own personal inspiration from my assimilations and experience of my life lived. Experiences that I have taken then shaped and formed into stories and poems. Moments garnered from all people I have interacted with, during these 58 years of living. I am from a very from a family WITH a long history of wordsmiths. Within these pages, I try not to let down those that came before me, and to pass a standard to those who will come after. Taking on this family mantle, I do so with pride and to the best of my meager abilities.

I now live in Western New York, an area that if you don’t like the weather, wait 24 hours and it will change. The people that live here are tough, able, caring and resilient. I originated from the hills of Pennsylvania - a small town, Falls Creek, in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountain chain. Within my family heritage you will find lumberjacks, coal miners, and people of every vocation. You will also find warmth, loyalty and support. This family is the most loving and lovely family a young boy and now late- middle-aged man could possibly ever hope for.

My passions are, in no particular order, writing, photography, history (Civil War and WW II), music, poetry, sports, computers, and I am a people watcher. I am you see, an eclectic spirit, hence these eclectic thoughts. I hope with all of my heart, something you read in this book will touch you. I hope you can pause and maybe reflect on your own life and world. My Dad taught me very early on, be a "stop and smell the roses’" man! I have been published in Taj Mahal, Harvest of New Millennium, Different Worlds: A Virtual Journey.

Two Previous Books "Memories & Reflections" and "Captured Moments, Tall Tales and Poems". Which can be purchased from Author at his email address.

Thank YOU.

D Everett Newell, the Big D

Beyond Images [Paperback] Elizabeth Kurian Mona (Author), Sushil Thapa (Author)

Beyond Images [Paperback] by Elizabeth Kurian Mona & Sushil Thapa

Paperback: 111 pages

Publisher: Cyberwit.net (July 15, 2012)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 8182533104

ISBN-13: 978-8182533103

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This anthology of poems in English, entitled BEYOND IMAGES, is by Elizabeth Kurian, a multilingual poetess, who is better known as “Mona”, her pen-name, to the poetry lovers of Hyderabad. Apart from English, she writes poetry in Hindi and Urdu and makes her presence felt in the literary field in these languages.

BEYOND IMAGES contains fifty poems which are flavoured with a variety of themes. They reflect the poet’s sensitively felt experiences and moods, ranging from joy, love, pain, mysterious visions and childhood fantasies. She has personified nature also in her poems and touched upon humanity’s universal trials.  She has used very simple language and appropriate words for the desired expression in her mind to express without ambiguity the mood of each poem. The words and ideas seem to flow spontaneously, thereby making the content of the poems leave their impact effortlessly. This selection of her poetry is charged with her deeply felt and subtly expressed feelings.

The twofold fascination for this book is both in its significant poems as well as in the accompanying illustrations by Sushil Thapa, a well known painter of Nepal. His pen and ink line drawings with each poem are well drawn and express with imagination and feeling the mood of the poems. The illustrations have made the book more intelligible and meaningful to the reader and at the same time, have added a distinct charm to the book.

This well designed and well produced book, I am sure, will be enjoyed, cherished and appreciated for the quality of Mona’s poems as well as for the equally fine illustrations by Sushil Thapa.

I wish that this book will leave a distinctive mark on the literary canvas of Indian writing in English.

Jagdish Mittal
Hyderabad

(Padmasri Jagdish Mittal is a world famous artist, art historian and writer. He is co-founder of The Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad.)

Elizabeth Kurian Mona

Elizabeth was born and brought up in Hyderabad, India. She studied in Rosary Convent School and Nizam College.  She worked with the Reserve Bank of India at Hyderabad and Mumbai. She has taken early retirement as Manager from the Bank and now lives in Hyderabad. Apart from English, she writes poetry in Hindi and Urdu. Her 'takhallus' or pen name is “Mona” for the 'ghazal' genre. She also translates poetry from Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam, Marathi and Telugu into English. Her poems / translations have been published in many magazines and anthologies and also appear on the internet. The poems in this collection span more than three decades.

Sushil Thapa

Sushil Thapa is a renowned artist of Nepal. Interested in painting from a young age, he is self taught and art is his passion. He does paintings in oil and acrylic, though pen and ink is his forte. His main subjects are the people of his country from different ethnic backgrounds. He was attached to the Centre for Victims of Torture (CVICT), Kathmandu for thirteen years and through his art works supported various Human Rights campaigns.

Dr Santosh Kumar, Editor, Cyberwit.net, speaking at Oslo Literary Festival Sept. 2008

WORDS one path to peace and understanding Oslo 18-20 September 2008

Santosh Kumar read his haiku at World Haiku Association Conference and Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2009 in Lithuania.