May 2021 issue
May 2021 issue
Our May issue has been delayed due to several reasons. However, it gives me comfort that we have been fortunate enough to produce this issue under the prevailing conditions. As our readers are well aware, the current pandemic crisis has affected all of us directly or indirectly in many ways. This time, we found that contributors have been somewhat slow in sending their works to us on time. Compiling a magazine of this calibre without losing quality needs a lot of patience and focus. I am glad we have been able to offer our best to produce this issue with a variety of content from contributors from different corners of the world. Talking about the pandemic again, it is quite sad that millions of lives have been sacrificed to the Coronavirus, despite the fact that an effective cure has been found already. India in particular, has been badly hit even though it has been in the forefront of producing the vaccine and making it available, not only to its own population but also for many other countries that couldn’t afford to make one. We can’t simply blame the political leaders alone for the current crisis even though things could have been handled differently with some hindsight. Let’s hope this crisis will come to an end in due course and lessons can be learnt to avoid any future crisis of this magnitude. In the meantime, we would like to urge media organisations and politicians not to use the names of the countries when describing the variants of the Corona virus as it causes a lot of problems among the communities. As usual, this issue includes many different, interesting features from our contributors. I would like to thank them all for the splendid work sent to us. In future, I would like to maintain an article bank, containing enough content available for each issue. So, please consider sending your contributions at anytime without waiting for a deadline. I would like to ask the contributors to send their work to confluenceuk@yahoo.com email only, and not to any other emails. We have an active Facebook group which is growing all the time and I like to have healthy discussions on varied topics. Please share your opinions too and encourage your literary friends too to become members. I look forward to receiving your thoughts on this issue and welcome any suggestions to improve the magazine overall. I wish all our readers a good summer.
