Huge smoke plumes burst forth like a geyser in the foreground of the picture, sending off a sinister chill despite the somewhat playful connotation in the caption. This is one of Jai’s rare excursions into political terrain and sees him venturing outside Malaysia and beyond his immediate and familiar surroundings. Pre-timed bombs like those in Mumbai (Taj Hotel), Jaipur, Ahmadebad, Bangalore and Assam in India, the Gaza Strip and Pakistan have snatched lives of innocent civilians and caused irreversible damage to properties, while closer to home is the protracted insurgency in the volatile Deep South of Thailand.