Kritya completes a joyous second year and here we are with this last issue for this year. Kritya is released on the first day of every month. The journey of Kritya was not exactly trouble-free, but was made possible because of the wholehearted love of our readers and contributors. We keep on getting support from all quarters, in terms of encouraging words and praise as well as in the form of excellent submissions of creative material from poets and artists. In the course of the last two years, Kritya could bring out several unique issues like – a special number for Australian poetry, another as a tribute to the Indian poet Ayyappa Paniker and yet another for Italian poetry. Moreover, Kritya is now registered as a foundation for Arts, Culture and Literature.

In the meantime, Kritya has established herself as an important journal in the international poetic world. Our journey is a forward one. We are planning to celebrate an international festival of poetry in the coming month.

We believe that poetry exists not only in words; it is there in music, painting, acting and even in every act which takes us to beauty or that which makes our life beautiful. Poetry never ignores other emotions of life, it gives them voice. In our festival we are reviving the voices of different cultures in the hope of making them heard and appreciated. We welcome our readers’ suggestions in this regard.

This final issue of Kritya’s successful second year is as interesting as our past issues. Our Master in this issue is Nizar Qabbani, whose poetry is a good example of beautiful simplicity. Editor’s Choice this time is the Russian poet Vera Zubarev along with her photography. In the section In the Name of Poetry, the Italian Poet Antonio Diavoli is presenting a very interesting thought in beautiful poetic language. As usual, we have poetry from poets belonging to different parts of the world. The picture depicted on the Editor’s Choice page is taken from the paintings by Vera Zubarev, and the other main paintings are provided by our artist Vijendra Vij. Enjoy a different dimension of Vijendra’s paintings here!

Friends, I thank you all on behalf of the Kritya team for having made our journey so successful and exhilarating, I earnestly hope that you will continue your support in the coming years also.

Rati Saxena


The poems, articles and reviews published in Kritya are received by e-mail. The views, themes etc. expressed therein are solely those of the respective writers, and not of the publishers or editors of Kritya. The credentials of the writers are those that they provide via e-mails and most of the writers are not personally known to the publishers and editors.