VOL. 12 NUMBER 2 DEC 2013 (24th Issue)

Edited by: Dr. Santosh Kumar Binding: Paperback (pp: 218) ISSN: 0972-6004 Availability: In Stock (Ships within 1 to 2 days) Publisher:Cyberwit.net, India Pub. Date: DEC 2013 Front & Back Cover of "Taj Mahal Review": Alexander Kozhukhov

Happy New Year. Welcome to this issue of Taj Mahal Review. It is a great pleasure to acknowledge, with a very deep sense of gratitude, the cooperation and help of the creative artists included in this edition. I am so grateful to the authors included in the December 2013 Taj Mahal Review. In this issue I have done my level best to include excellent contemporary artwork, modern and postmodern creative writing including poems, haiku, book reviews and several other interesting features.

Since the inaugural issue of this journal devoted to Art and Poetry, I have been receiving a very large number of poems, short stories, art work, paintings and photos. The decision to publish is fundamentally a decision to publish the best. No doubt, TMR is trying its best to bring modern poems to poetry lovers and new readers across the world.

Great poetry always expresses vital truth using ‘the best words in the best order’ in simple and natural style. “A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words” (Robert Frost).

Congratulations to Alice Munro, the famous Canadian short-story writer, for wining the 2013 Nobel prize in literature. Her ‘mastery of the form’ and ‘finely tuned storytelling’ are amazing and most admirable.

The contributors for Dec. 2013 were

SHORT STORIES
Andrew McIntyre
Beate Sigriddaughter
D. R. Prescott
Eric Tessier
Jason Constantine Ford
Moshé Liba
Robert Paul Blumenstein
Siraj Moopen
Steve Mogg
Steve Morris
Surbhi Thukral
Taha Kehar

POEMS
Aditi Mahajan
Aditya Kumar Panda
Amal Bikash Mukherjee
Anand G Nair
Anirudha Padagi
Anjani Kumar Pandey
Ankit Shah
Arindam Banerjee
Beate Sigriddaughter
Bharti Mahesh Iyer
Brinett Rachael
Cezar Florin Hustiu
Christa Pandey
Christopher Maelzer
Clara Nubile
Cosmos III
D Everett Newell
Diane Dehler
Divya Nelson
Doc Drumheller
Dr. Donald McManus
Floriana Hall
Gladwin George
Gouri M. Sattigeri
Greg Moglia
Henry Victor
Howard Winn
Jaydeep Sarangi
John Ryan
Keertana Subramani
Larry Preston
Madhavi Vijayan
Mahek Dagha
Manmeet Kaur
Michael C. Rush
Mohineet Kaur Boparai
Munai Das Udasin
Nasnin Ashique
Nirmala
Patrina Jones
Dr. Pãun Cornelia
Dr. P. K. Dash
Prabhneet Singh
Pratyasha Pattanaik
Praveen Sharma
Prem Kumar
Rachna Gupta
Rajlakshmi Pillai
Reghunath Pillai
Dr. Rekha K. Shetty
Richard Araujo
Rob Plath
Ronald Antony Edakatt
Ronak Bagaria
Ruchika Sharma
Sam Rapth
Samujjwal Dey
Dr. Sandeep Kumar Kar
Sandra Rokoff-Lizut
Saumen Mondal
Sharon Flynn
Shilpa Desawale
Shobhana Kumar
Shouvik Narayan Hore
Shweta Gwalani
Shweta Yadav
Sneha Roy
Steve Kilmer
Subhashini
Subrata Sinha
Sudipta Jana
Suhotra Roychoudhury
Surabhi Shouche
Sushmita Roy
Suzie Palmer
Tanni Bose
Dr.V.Poompavai
Vishvas Pandita
Vrinda Bhatia

HAIKU
Ban’ya Natsuishi
Bill Cooper
Deeya Bhattacharya
E. Martin Pedersen
John J. Han
John Mcdonald
Neelam Dadhwal
Rajeshwari Srinivasan
Santosh Kumar
Sayumi Kamakura
Shirley Bolstok

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