Essentials of love and life unveil themselves if you have lived among the dead and the dying. Most of these poems were written in Baghdad and Pyongyang and some in Bangkok. Life is a gift wrapped in hope. The melancholia of these poems intensifies your sensitivity to life as well as love. The poems are journeys back in time, reaching forgotten civilizations, but they also wander inwards seeking substitutes for all that comprises life: hope and dejection, love and loss, moments and infinity, everyday and dreams.

‘We have a new talented poet joining the band of Ganga worshippers’.
– Khushwant Singh on reading Gangasmriti & Other Poems -- The Telegraph

With Less than One-Third of Love, poems from distant war zones, Misra has with passion given release to a third of the canines that gnaw at his sensitive soul.
-- Ravi Velloor, Associate Editor, The Straits Times.