A sailor by profession, the poet in me kept surfacing from time to time, invoked by the magnificent pulchritude of Solan, Himachal Pradesh, that I call home and nurtured further by the peaceful emp...ver maisA sailor by profession, the poet in me kept surfacing from time to time, invoked by the magnificent pulchritude of Solan, Himachal Pradesh, that I call home and nurtured further by the peaceful emptiness of the vast oceans. Encouraged by the near and dear ones, I embarked upon the quest to write this book only to discover that I hardly possess the required stamina, patience, and persistence and spent five years in the process. If not for my wife’s constant and unabated badgering of my lethargy, I would have carried the unfinished manuscript to the netherworld with me. Now that I have finished it, the feeling is the same as a woman would feel giving birth to a baby after carrying it in her womb for five years.ver menos