Book excerpt: "When culture is code for division, You gotta be uncultured to find assimilation. When hagiographies are passed on as heritage, To be heretic is the first course of action. Instead of being chained to the dead, Let us be each other's roots. Be a garland that celebrates life, Instead of a hangman's noose." Humanist to many, Sufi to some, Humanitarian Scientist to most, Abhijit Naskar has become synonymous with humankind's struggle for peace and harmony. And here the Himalayan Sonneteer offers us an intolerance-defying poetic treasure-trove of integration, inclusion and unification.