This book of poems titled “Heartbeats” is multi themed. It covers a whole gamut of emotions and feelings such as despair and despondency in “The Eclipse” and “Caretaker or an undertaker?,’’ awe and horror, in “A Nightmare”, realisation and remorse in “After the backlash”, hypocrisy and injustice in “The Shadows’, frustration and failure in “Where are my roots?”, anguish and alienation in “If only he rang me up” and “A bird is a bird” ... love and bonding in “One day or the other” and “The sound of Silence”, unceasing quest and devotion in “Where is He?”, empathy and sympathy in “Beguile me not”, quest and contentment in “Paradise Pri.mordial”, segregation and alienation in “They can’t breathe”, commitment in “confession’, joy and cheer in “Open the doors of your heart” “love life, live life “Open up, and “Sip the wine of life”, aspiration and ambition in “Not all can’’, despair and frustration in “My quest”, injustice and inhumanity in “Felling the tree”, commitment and revolt in “Red Salams’, realization in “Don’t ask me”, aesthetic bliss in “The night it rained nectar”, fortitude in “A tribute to human endurance”, reverie in “In my mind’s eye”, harmony and disharmony in “Words.... words”, betrayal and injustice in “Concrete jungle”, criminal folly in “Puny Man”, time warp in “What shall I write about ?, triumph of tears in “Wounds”, hubris and hauteur of man in “The clown of creation’ etc ... In short, “Heartbeats” is a comment on the existential crisis and predicament of Modern Man in the 21st century.