1. Religious Appeal

Leter on Harmony

2. Tripping

India in 2005

3. Reminders to Advance the Soul

When I first started to expand my thoughts

4. Dear Brother

Fictionalized Furure (The YM Mandate)

5. Reconciling Quality

Thoughts on Quality in Religion - rtying to integrate the static (dogman) from the dynamic (individual)

6. Charter

Fictionalized Furure (The YM Charter)

7. Harmony

The author appeals to God to give man the understanding that all paths lead to him. Let man embrace his brethren, accepting his limitations as he has his, and walk together towards a world filled with love and peace with the understanding that all paths lead to the one same God.

8. For Queen and Country

9. A New Age

Random jottings on a New Age and the thoughts it inspires

10. God et Alii

11. Are good people good enough

12. Religion and Islam

13. Our Values

Truth Alone Triumphs

14. Feeling for Others

15. Dear Fellow Human

16. Fantastic Four

17. Disruptive Republic

18. The Neverending Story

19. Dear Modern Religious Critic

20. Inextricably Linked

21. God Again

Who is God? He is the all loving all-pervading spirit who watches over us and is there in our sad and happy moments. At times we feel abandoned by Him when we really do not understand and accept life with all its ups and downs. In this transient world let's accept and embrace change, let's evolve bearing in mind that his Divine Spark is within each of us in body, mind and spirit.

22. God In India

23. Jump with Faith

Religion is the one area where we clash rather aggressively and furiously with our fellow beings. We are taught to believe that only our faith is right and that all others are wrong or flawed. We are all but swimmers in this vast ocean of spirituality, learning to dive, standing on the diving board, yet reluctant to take the plunge lest our faith and beliefs be ridiculed and condemned. The author implores us to take the plunge and face the future - one which stands for Liberty Brotherhood and Harmony - so let's help create an orchestra out of this battlefield is his plea to mankind.

24. Wall of Love

Here the author ruefully examines the causes for man's failure to be happy viz. bad examples, past hurts, our complexes, our fixation on wealth and power and of course stress. All these trivial pursuits rob us of a rich and contented life. There is still hope for mankind to recover from these maladies of division and dissimilarities and establish a "religion of love" where we can love and live as brothers and sisters.

25. Implore

All religions have from time to time produced great men, prophets, saints, seers and mystics whom we have venerated and worshipped. All of them have come with messages for us and these messages all have commonalities and whatever path we choose to take, in the end all paths are not dissimilar and lead us to the same Truth.

1. Love Letter

Written for a woman I wanted to marry and couldnt because too many notions got in the way.

2. Gratitude

Written for John's wedding in 2011, this remains my standard wish for any couple and forms a part of other writings like Valima and Fray

3. Brittle

Why do we have to be so brittle with our religions and ideologies? Lets be more tolerant and loving esp towards ourselves.

4. Love Thy Self

Imploring the reader to love him/herself as I beg myself the same

5. Musings

Musings Interrupted (thoughts on the way to Pondicherry in 2013 - spiritual pilgrimage)

6. Love Again

On the rebound from love and questioning everything.

7. Islam

Short essay on Islam (not Atheism) as inspired by my own teacher.

8. Writer Tick

"What makes a writer tick" - All my sources of Inspiration over the years

9. Church

Notes for HCLC in Bellevue and read over 2 Sundays - this includes Cliff Rihcard's Sing a Song and Kansas' Wall

10. Copyfight

Written in America, a CURATOR imploring Authors to make their more profound works free

11. Valima

Naazesh - At a cousins wedding - a reading out of Gratitude mixed with a few other thoughts and quotes.

12. Let There Be Love

Random trip on love and caring for our fellow human.

13. Sleep Eros

Fictionalized Romance where it takes a couple a whole year of bonding before igniting the sexual spark.

14. Quality

A plea not to judge other on religious grounds, but to let a true spirit of harmony reign

15. Divine

128 atributes of the Divine - Mahakala and Mahashakti (Lords of Time)

16. Unspoken

Planned selection of prayers and my own "Harmony" prayer - unspoken at Hussain Day, Bangalore

17. Partners

Puja - Few thoughts on romance and partners, ends with a note to my cousin on her wedding day.

18. Linger Near

Thoughts on death - for the Jim Reeves song

19. Letters Jun2017

3 separate essays for 3 people (at the hospital)

20. Grace

Another random trip on a day at the hospital

21. Affirmation

Imran's personal affirmation in 2017

22. Expectation

The 3 types of expectation (essay written at Veena's request)

23. Good Enough

A plea to everyone strive to be deemed good enough

24. Inspired Teaching

Written for Edlusion, my former employer, this underscores the need for inpired teaching - seeing it as a calling rather than yet another profession.

25. Particle Physics

Kinda cryptic love note, this one inspired by "Will and Lyra" in Philip Pullman's Dark Materials

26. Intangibles

Written for Edlusion, my former employer, this talks of the Intangibles in Teaching Frameworks.

27. Join Us

The YM Join Us Video of 2018

28. Feeling For Others

Short appeal to people not to be indifferent to each other's pain.

29. Keep Smiling

Long message to students about "never losing that fire" and making life spectacular.

30. Devalaya

Some random trip on "Devalaya" - the Abode of the Gods

31. ID 2018

Imran's message / video of Independance Day 2018

32. The Fray

For a friend when her cousin got married - a mix of various essays and prayers for partners.

33. Bless Us Father

A short prayer as we "undertake to manifest our very Heaven on Earth".

34. Taminders Legacy

A barrage of questions based on characters of the book of Richard Bach ie: Curious Lives

35. Messages 2020

Messages on Independance day and 2020 Eid

1. Cry Liberty

2. Joyland Welcome

3. Catalyst

4. Software Making

5. Dreams

Theres a powerful character Avedoi Merek that brought Peace and Love to Ferra (The Ferret Home World) by changing himself. Having already establised ourselves in love since 1958, perhaps now, its time we (humankind) thought of "Those Good old Dreams". I still dream, standing on the shoulders of giants.

6. Harmonizing Quality

1. Mumzy1

My first "sit-down-and-write" essay with my mother, Uma. Its about her beloved son, me <3

2. Mumzy2

About a wonderful visit we had by a cat and her 3 kittens nearly 10 years ago

1. Lousy

In anger at the state of oligarchy and of our complaisance.

2. Robot

Wondering what a world of AI military robots could do to us - posing them a few rhetoric questions.

3. Fantasy

Wondeing the purpose of fantasy as we expose our children to it all.

1. Curious Lives

What a novel!

2. Tiger in the Well

What a novel!

566. After 12 Years

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