Pakistan, Feb. 7 -- Soliloquies? On the Sea by Tariq Alexander Qaiser is about the wonder of reconnecting with Nature. At its core is a powerful experience which occurred when the author was out at sea. This is described as "the story of when marine life, on a magical, optimistic night in 1999, aligned itself with the cosmos."

This is the second of Tariq Alexander Qaiser's Soliloquies? volumes. It is a collection of prose, poetry and images, which revolve around, or are inspired by, this particular experience - 'that night' - when time seemed to stand still, and all of natural life seemed to be in harmony. The volume is really two books, one Urdu and one English, both with their own covers, which meet in the middle and revolve around the...