Taj 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.