Subhash Misra

Subhash Misra's book "Gangasmriti & Other Poems" [http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=gangasmriti&meta=] was published by Writers Workshop, Kolkata, India. The publishers have pioneered works of Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, Shiv K Kumar, AK Ramanujam among many other well known poets.

In his column published in The Telegraph on 25 June 2005 and several other papers the legendry columnist Khushwant Singh wrote "We have a new talented poet joining the band of Ganga worshippers. Subhash Misra was born on its banks at Mirzapur, educated on its banks at Varanasi and made his livelihood in Calcutta by the Hoogly. In his collection of poems, Gangasmriti & Other Poems, he goes ecstatic in praise of ?Srishti: The Creation?:

I was born on the banks of another river/ Another name for self and all of us/ I was not born in these plains ? watching your slide/ Nor did I arise where the barriers to meditation/ Are left behind. If you are looking for the root/ You will find it in ?I?nd Us. That is where/ My ancient land was before it became country,/ Nation, state, date and repeatedly rewritten history.

Later, from the maturing rhyme/ From the earliest of all times/ You awoke us/ Making your own sand and smiles/ Creating your own gods, grains and grass/ Gliding gently, dashing wildly, turning seductively/ Reclining piously on flowers and brass/ From sweating snows to sleepy morning dew/ From hot and humid days to a regional blue."

Subhash Misra has worked for UNICEF and has headed the Tsunami Recovery Program in Andaman & Nicobar and then contributed to Afghanistan National Development Stratgey as an Adviser with UNDP, Kabul. He also started the development organisation OASES in 1982.Subhash Misra has also contributed personal experiences to various Indian newspapers. [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=d7d84xw_2cmm9tp]