Happy New Year.  It's time for wishing you  Happy New Year that will be filled with all the finest things within your memory. This issue of Harvests of New Millennium 2011 is a multicultural journal, a truly independent journal devoted to traditional and nontraditional art and poetry. Harvests of New Millennium will continue to have enormous impact because it includes some of the best art, poems and haiku by contemporary artists; and partly because of the range of its contents. One of the world's most significant journals devoted to Art, Harvests of New Millennium 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 will have a powerful impact on the contemporary world of creative artists both nationally and internationally.

Haiku is now a regular feature of Harvests.  No doubt, haiku has immense potentialities to unite the world due to its popularity. It transcends race, creed and ideology. Internet has made it very popular in no time. The incomparable popularity of haiku became evident with the publication of J. Higginson's “Haiku World” (1996) including more than 1000 poems by 600 poets from fifty countries writing in 25 languages. It is good for the development of haiku that the poets now are adopting the idea of kigo to their local condition and cultures.

I along with Karunesh Agrawal and Cyberwit staff express deep condolence to Haiti earthquake victims. We pray to God to grant peace to the bereaved families. I may add that  “Charlie Simpson,  a seven year old schoolboy from London,  became famous all over the world  for his fundraising efforts. Charlie's fundraising effort gained national and then international coverage. By the end of the day of  his sponsored bicycle ride his JustGiving webpage had amassed donations of over £60,000 ($96,700) from donors all over the world. Two days later (as of 26 January 2010) the total stood at over £150,000. On 27 March 2010 the total stood at £210,000.”

I am highly obliged to all artists included in this issue. Without their kind help and support, this publication would have been impossible. Many, many thanks to Azsacra Zarathustra for his great help and cooperation in bringing out this edition.

                            -Santosh Kumar, Editor