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The Wise Owl 

At The Wise Owl, our team of editorial professionals work behind the scenes to ensure that our readers have the best possible experience interacting with our magazine. Our talented writers/artists and editors have their hands on the media pulse, and are here to bring you poetry, stories, reviews and articles/essays as well as visual art work on a wide range of topics. Get to know a few of them below.

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Dr Rachna Singh

Principal Editor

A doctorate in English literature and a former bureaucrat, Rachna Singh has authored Penny Panache (2016) Myriad Musings (2016) Financial Felicity (2017) & The Bitcoin Saga: A Mixed Montage (2019). She writes regularly for National Dailies and has also been reviewing books for the The Tribune for more than a decade. She runs a YouTube Channel, Kuch Tum Kaho Kuch Hum Kahein, which brings to the viewers poetry of established poets of Hindi & Urdu. She loves music and is learning to play the piano.

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Dr Harmeet Singh

Senior Editor Visual Art & Tech Lead

A doctor and a former Bureaucrat, Dr Harmeet Singh is also a painter and a skilled photographer. He loves working with watercolours and has exhibited his work in Taj Mumbai, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi, Indus Gallery Chandigarh & Punjab Kala Akademi, Chandigarh, to name a few. His paintings are featured on his website HarmeetSingh.art. He is a keen ornithologist and his photographs of Indian birds are featured on his website. In his free time he also loves playing with stocks.

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Dr Ranjit Powar

Guest Editor

Author of Dusk over the Mustard Fields and Living a Good Life. She writes freelance and reviews books for newspapers, most often with her dog Teddy sprawled next to her desk. After serving in the Punjab Civil services, she presently runs a non-profit organization, Nishan Educational Trust, training school teachers in psychological orientation in pedagogy. Deeply involved with humanitarian issues and cross-border peace efforts, she hopes to resume her second passion soon – travelling.

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Neena Singh
Guest Editor

A Touchstone nominee in the Shortlist for Individual Poems in 2021, Neena is a banker turned poet. Her haikai poetry is regularly published in international journals and magazines. She has published two books of poetry—'Whispers of the Soul: the journey within' and 'One Breath Poetry'. She runs a non-profit for quality interventions in the education and health of underprivileged children in Chandigarh. Neena loves to play 'fetch ball' with her pet Rumi, and sit in the garden conversing with squirrels and pigeons.

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