Indian expatriate is author at 24 [Khaleej Times, Sep 20 2002] The pseudonymous compilation of writings called Egoptics first appeared on his web site www.jaihoon.com. Jaihoon is the pen name of 24-year-old author... The title formed by conjoining the words ego and optics, “is a self-coined word to describe the sum total of my observations and experiences,” Mr Jaihoon said. The name Jaihoon referring to a river features in a couplet of Dr Allama Mohammed Iqbal, who is the young poet’s inspiration. ... Neither has he dwelt on any particular subject, but written whenever something has moved him, as is evident from the eclectic verse titles, from the sublime When you hear my prayer! to the mundane Sneezing vs yawning: some mixed feelings. A good number of foreign words, especially from Arabic and Urdu, have crept in and have been retained, “in order to preserve the richness of the experience, and not to dilute the mystic content with a translation,” said the young poet, who was brought up in Sharjah emirate.