“The Other Side of Fifty and Rays of Lamentation has the timbre of unrelieved angst glaring at (or stunned by) abject imbecility flaunted in infantile choruses – counterfeit religion, national and international lies, flatteries – of falsities vis-à-vis telling circumstances. Intricate allegories scintillate in terse tidiness to flay these convolutions of state, media, befuddled intelligentsia and misinformed pulpits of insincerity. The insidious schemes of Western and South-Eastern looters gut-sicken the poet to retch vehemently while none-the-less genuflecting to genuineness, national passion, and guileless spontaneity. Read with and to the heart, this collection reveals a taut heart-grappling with root issues – self-hood, religion, national and social loyalties and opportunism”
