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

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From the Editor

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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