Warm greetings. Like the earlier issues, this latest edition of Taj Mahal Review is an humble attempt to publish genuine creative writings by authors across the globe. I have done my best to ascertain that the June 2022 edition contains only those authors who cater to the creative appetite of readers all over the world. This latest issue of TMR includes modern and postmodern poems, haiku by international poets, book reviews and many other interesting features. Some of the poems included in this latest edition are romantic in method and style, but it is necessary to add that these poets find it difficult to altogether escape troubled spirit. The fact is that it is not always possible for a creative artist to write about happier aspects of life. The opening line of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice reveals Antonio’s mysterious melancholy: “In sooth, I know now not why I am so sad.” Matthew Arnold’s poem The Scholar Gipsy (1853) reveals in the following immortal lines: It is very sad to write about death of Ambassador Moshé Liba, retired diplomat, university professor, author and artist. I along with Karunesh Kumar Agarwal express deep condolence to the bereaved family. A highly remarkable fact about him is his intense love for writing poems and reflective essays. He is an immortal poet. In his works, poetry attains its highest power, revealing his individual style and mastery of the English language. Congratulations to Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature "For his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. This is my duty to express my thanks and gratitude to all authors published in June 2022 edition of TMR. I must add that without their kind help this publication would not have been possible. Best Wishes SANTOSH KUMAR Editor

Welcome to Taj Mahal Review, December 2021! May every day of this New Year bring you Happiness, Love and Prosperity. Happy New Year! The multiple ways connect these poets, short-story tellers and essayists together. A global feel with artists around the world. It is my earnest hope that the impulses, desires, a few admonitions, some brilliant, acute observations will surely comfort our world tormented by the insolence of violence, terrorism, “the whips and scorns of time.” It is hoped that this issue of Taj Mahal Review will help in sustaining a sense of literature and art. The authors included in TMR reveal the very spirit and soul of great writing. Struggle would exhaust all creative artists, so cooperation is indispensable for evolving a society of world poets to create a world free from violence and hatred.

To begin with the June 2021 edition of Taj Mahal Review, it is necessary to state that the journal provides immense aesthetic pleasure to all readers across the world. Its principle is : to publish only original poems, haiku, short story, critical reviews, etc. It is quite disappointing to point out so many deaths due to a global outbreak of the pandemic coronavirus. “The most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all coronaviruses is estimated to have existed as recently as 8000 BCE, although some models place the common ancestor as far back as 55 million years or more.” No doubt, destruction of our ecosystems is quite responsible for the outbreak of infectious diseases. Various academic researches have shown that deforestation and loss of wild life lead to several pandemics. Wordsworth is quite right in lamenting the fact that we are now strangers to “Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health”. This is quite painful and bitterly disappointing to see such a large number of coronavirus victims from all walks of life across the world. I and Karunesh Kumar Agarwal along with all staff members pray that God may grant peace and consolation to all bereaved families. It is my humble duty to thank all poets and short story writers whose best writings are published in this latest TMR edition. I am highly indebted and grateful to all international authors for their kind cooperation and help to make publication of the June 2021 issue of Taj Mahal Review possible.

The December 2020 issue of Taj Mahal Review presents some of the most attractive contemporary works by poets and creative artists across the world. I trust that readers who consider themselves interested in poetry, haiku and short story written by international authors, will agree that the latest journal includes not only quite attractive poetry, short story and book reviews, but also immortal haiku by poets across the globe. The poems and haiku selected for publication in this latest edition of TMR have a special interest as the most attractive images, sentiment, ideas and moods expressed by the poets undoubtedly reveal rare and precious quality of intense imagination and minute observation both suggestive and graphic.