The Towns Mirror Special: Delving into the sleight of mind – Bangalore Mirror

Sunil Roys collection of poems titled Sisyphus on the SeeSaw is inspired by everything from psychology to quantum physics to art and philosophy

As an adventure consultant, Sunil Roy, a resident of Hennur, would work in the midst of nature for most of his time. Travelling to very remote locations, surrounded by nothing but trees, water, sands, forests meant that he got a lot of time to muse and contemplate over the mysteries of life.

And so, for the past few years, Roy would jot down his thoughts in the form of poems. Inspired and based on psychology, philosophy, art, quantum physics all of Roys favourite reading topics the poems, titled Sisyphus on the SeeSaw, often resemble Rorschach inkblots to readers: subject to interpretation.

Going to all these remote locations meant that he got a lot of time to reflect. For the last 15 17 years, I have been travelling, he says.

At first glance, the poems seem extremely obscure. But on closer scrutiny, they have nuggets of truth hidden. Even Roys name (Nil Ryo) is a clever pseudonym of his initials.

But writing poems, especially when they deal with heavy topics like quantum particles and psychology, is not an easy feat. Roy says that he had to consciously dumb down the concept to make it decipherable to everyone. If one is looking for some literary value in these poems, he/ she may not find it. But if you want some anomalies and conundrums, and a bit of psychology hidden, this book may fascinate you, he explains.

Drawing hands by Escher is an apt paradox of what his book is about

Excerpts...

The Naxal A circle is formed by points if a single point starts to push or pull then soon all the points will roll on to each other and end up in a pile or fall flat as a line or even, perhaps, set the circle in a revolution.

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