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.

Taj Mahal Review December 2010 issue includes poems, haiku, short stories, artwork, book reviews and several other regular features such as literary facts, immortal sayings  etc. I have been receiving a very large number of articles, poems and short stories for publication in the Taj.  It is not possible to include all authors. But just how is the responsibility of choosing the best writings to be fulfilled?
I try to find out if the author is aware of the latest trends in creative writing? That is why one would notice that some of the artists are influenced by Dada movement.  Dada in literature and paintings is a plea for abolishing logic. Tristan Tzara aptly comments that Dada is "absolute and unquestionable faith in every god that is the immediate product of spontaneity:  elegant and unprejudiced leap from a harmony to the other sphere; trajectory of a word tossed like a screeching phonograph record; to respect all individuals in their folly of the moment."

TMR June 2010 is a multicultural journal, a truly independent journal devoted to traditional and nontraditional poetry. One of the world’s most significant literary journal TMR promotes and focuses on the best creative writing and art. No doubt, it is a source of powerful, new voices. I hope the emerging authors and visual artists published in this issue of TMR will have a powerful impact on the contemporary world of creative artists both nationally and internationally. Taj Mahal Review will continue to have enormous impact because it includes some of the best art, poems and haiku, short stories, book review, interview, Quotable Quotes, interesting literary facts and Quiz, bio of each creative artist included in this issue. The range of its contents is quite impressive.

Happy New Year! My main aim is to include most promising artwork, poems, literary criticism, haiku and short stories by international artists. TMR is open to new authors, painters and photographers. For publication in Taj Mahal Review, it is our ardent aim and desire to seek the poetry by Noble laureates, or by newly emerging (even previously unpublished poets). James Joyce rightly says, “Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state”. We have published sixteen volumes till now, about 7000 pages, and over 3,000 poets, short story writers, haiku poets, literary essays, reviews, paintings and photographs. I have tried my best to select the most impressive poetry, short story and artwork revealing diversity in excellence.
I’m obliged to Kornelijus Platelis and Ban’ya Natsuishi for inviting me and Karunesh Kumar Agarwal to attend the Druskininkai 20th Poetic Fall Festival and the 5th World Haiku Association Conference 2009 on 30th September to 5th October in Vilnius and Druskininkai, Lithuania. We participated in the Conference, and the memories will linger for a long time. Both Ban’ya and Kornelijus Platelis deserve admiration for this most remarkable haiku festival. 121 participants from 23 countries made the Festival so engaging and so lively. The poets read their haiku in original language, English and Lithuanian translations. The theme of the Festival was: Short Poetic Forms: Haiku. The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Herta Mïller. She was cited as someone, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”; she received a prize amount of US$1.4 million. Hearty congratulations to her.

It is a matter of great happiness to release the June 2009 Taj Mahal Review. This issue includes the most spectacular poems by the authors across the world, haiku, book review, short stories, artwork, reflections, literary criticism and much more. My main mission as Editor of TMR is to publish different trends of contemporary writing world-wide by so many voices and so many cultures to promote Peace and Friendship. While selecting artwork and poems, I always keep in mind that great creative artists touch “the hidden nerve” (Tocqueville). In the contemporary postmodern chaos, it would be quite prudent to follow the old tradition of “transcendentalist individualism” (Allen Ginsberg). Jean Paul Sartre aptly says: “Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”

TMR  December 2008 brings to the readers a varied collection of poems, haiku,  short stories, artwork, book reviews and many other illuminating things such as literary facts, gems of quotations etc. This journal is publishing  creative writings and artwork for several years.  Without the cooperation and kind support provided by the creative artists included in this issue Taj is inconceivable. I have been receiving an increasingly vast number of  poems, shorter fiction and artwork, but it is not possible to publish each artist due to lack of space. Therefore only those compositions have been selected for this issue, which reveal author’s passionate thinking about life, transcendentalism, mood of the new century, idealism in accordance with reason and commonsense, and concentrating on inner experience.