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Love seldom communicates; and poets make the inevitable blunder in believing that they are hearing love's murmur that is eminently poetic. In fact, as Shakespeare tells ``...love is blind, and lovers cannot see, the pretty follies that themselves commit.'' But for a poet who receives the blow of love, the ``...feeling is more soft and sensible than are the tender horns of cockled snails.'' The Bard has stated it so succinctly. All poems are a product of love. If there's a poetic call against exploitation it's because the poet loves the downtrodden, if a poem extols people to revolt against terrorism it is the outcome of the poet's love for peace. The same fundamental factor of love applies to poems penned in different times, on different chimes. Perhaps in no other creative channel love predominates so much. What is to be noted is that the poet is not aware that his creative faculty is usurped by some benevolent force and, by the time he comes to understand that his poem has been written while he was in love.

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Essayist, short story writer, journalist, poet, Kamal K. Mohanty (b. 11 Nov. 1952) wears many hats. After more than thirty-five years with some of the most prominent English dailies in India, post-retirement he now divides his time between editing an infrastructure magazine (Coal: The Soul of Indian Economy) and chasing his literary pursuits. He has published multiple volumes of essays and short stories with a translated book of poems. He is a rare writer who has given expression to his imagination in multiple languages, writing with equal ease in Odia and English, the first his native tongue; and the second his professional medium. His first book, `Orissa: The Lost Footsteps' was a collection of his writings in various newspapers such as The Telegraph, The Economic Times, etc. on his native state at the crossroads of history and the future. His essays and short stories have been published in leading Odia magazines. He has edited two volumes on two major mining and manufacturing companies. His other edited work, `Jagannath, The Culture of Brotherhood' is widely circulated. He has been published by the Sahitya Akademi as part of its series on Makers of Indian Literature, in which he discusses the life and work of Laxmidhar Nayak, eminent Odia litterateur. Mohanty has two children and lives in Kolkata with his wife.

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