Finding inspiration

Inspiration is a quite an interesting word. No, it's a character by itself. As writers, we are perpetually looking out for inspiration. But we don't allow it to consciously play in our minds. It comes from anywhere.
Look around you, soak yourself to all that's taking part in their own way.
I was walking down an avenue of trees. When my eyes fell ahead at the tops of trees arching themselves, the arch resembled the door of my mother's main door. My mother had recently passed away and an occasional sad thought had been rising in my mind. Witnessing the arch ahead, my mind raced to my mother's flat now empty, filled with silence. However, the arch of the bent heads of the trees made me suddenly feel that my mother is there. and if she's there, then she's everywhere. Yes, her spirit lives in all that I see around.
I had suddenly got the inspiration to the poem I was desiring to compose. I drew out the pen and the notebook and, leaning against the wall of a closed shop, composed the lines of the poem. Yes, I would read this poem in the forthcoming SAARC International SUFI Conference I was a delegate to. I have named the poem,
               Mama, Don't Take This Badge Off Me

Return of the author

It's been quite a long time since I last scribbled in my blog. A lot happened in these months. But the lesser important news is my romantic novel, Lost, came out in ebook form from Bangkok Books & the paperback from Art Publishing, Kolkata.
The story is based in Bangkok, a love story between an Indian youth & a Thai girl.
The book was launched in the Arts House,  Singapore this July by AP Writers and Translators.

To write don't begin with writing novels, but begin with short stories. A few thoughts that come up can be jotted down in a notebook you carry. Remember to be human. So meet people, understand and feel their reactions. In brief, get involved.

The UNKNOWN

The unknown and the mysterious attracts me, and of late I've been coming across bizarre dreams of unknown people suddenly appearing in a mist and making an effort to tell me something, but somehow their words getting carried away by the wind by the time they could complete their sentence. This has been happening since several days.
This has drawn me to scribble their torn messages so that that a story line can be formed.

There have been times people have asked me why I have named the God and Goddess of Love in LOVE AND LIFE IN A CHANGING CITY, Brief and Panty. Well, I've told them that's my attitude, my lifestyle. Attitude to thing unconventionally !!

Life is a gift , and you only have to see it through the right lens. It was a wonderful experience to be a part of a humble mixture of people from so many communities. 

There I read a poem on Inter-faith unity at the Regency Maple Banquet Hall supported by Turkish-Dialogue Cultural Center. Thank you Mr Mourad of TDCC & Imran Zaki, Faces

Allnes in Oneness

No men are unequal

For there is only one sky.        

Roofed under it, you and I breathe the same air

Dressed in whichever religious clothes we may be.

The same sun shines on you

And the same stars glimmer for me too.

My feet walk over the same soil as yours

And the water which feeds my thirst feeds yours too.

The cold winter touches you as much as it touches me

And the warm summer air brushes past me too.

Your heart boasts of the same colour as mine

For there is only one colour, the colour of blood

And clothed by its redness we share the same language

The universal language of love.

No men are enemies

For there is only one sky.        

Roofed under it, you and I breathe the same air

Dressed in whichever religious clothes we may be.

My new novel No New Mail but Mail from a New Girl. 
Wow!! Isn't it lovely? It's like a new baby you are holding in your arms!  You know, it takes months and months of systematic hard work (which I, of course enjoy) to get a book completed. It's out in e-book form. You may click on the link below, read the sample chapters 1 and 2 and if you like the story so far, you may but it. It's out in Amazon worldwide.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/New-Mail-but-Girl-ebook/dp/B00AWR72GQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1357411044&sr=1-1