About The Lotus Effect
The beautiful lotus grows in murky, muddy and dirty water but blooms every morning untouched by the impurity of its surroundings.
When a water drop forms or falls on a lotus leaf, the leaf surface by virtue of being superhydrophobic allows the water drop to stay on it without breaking it into smaller droplets. The water drop (often looking like a small crystal ball) glistens in the white light of the sun, and stays and rolls on the leaf, yet doesn’t mix with the leaf losing its individuality.
When life becomes like the water drop, a dynamic equilibrium is experienced amidst the ruffle of thoughts and overwhelming dance of emotions. Actions start reflecting a sense of detachment in this world of attachment. Like the wise say, “Love as everything as everything is yours, but nothing belongs to you is the real chapter”.
About Swetansu Mohapatra
Swetansu is an Entrepreneur and Poet.
Swetansu experienced his first tryst with writing during his childhood. Having brought up in the naturally abound state of South Orissa exposed him to tête-à-tête with hills, lakes, rivulets and forests, paving way for the rustic exposition of romantic poets like Keats and Wordsworth – an influence predominant in his earlier compositions. His poetry has visibly transformed over the last few years, both in content and style, owing to various events, encounters and experiences, such is but the natural order.
Swetansu’s choicest medium of expression has been English. A late discovery of symbolism filled deep philosophical works of vernacular and folk poets from unturned pages of history has had a deep influence on his later writings and compositions. Swetansu also often spends time in hunting, rummaging, reading and translating through lost and forgotten manuscripts, scriptures and works of Indic poets of yestercenturies.
Swetansu believes, as a poet, it is indeed a wonderful journey in itself when one tries to stay involved in the world while letting an overflow of feelings scribe their thoughts – this very juxtaposition makes poetry untainted and true for the self. Like a water drop on lotus leaf.
In 2003, Prof. G. Rangarao – the then Reader & Head of English Department at the local college, who later took the path of an ascetic and came to be known as Swamy Paramapriyananda Saraswati, had penned down a foreword introducing Swetansu to the reading public.
Swetansu often speaks on themes of Spirituality, Meditation, Wellness, Mindfulness, Existentialism and Consciousness. Among other professional pursuits, he is also involved in collaborative impact projects focused on research and development of unique solutions that can benefit mankind – especially in the domains of Open Education, Solar Energy, Mental Health and Low Cost Healthcare.
About This Website
Water Drop on Lotus Leaf is a collection of selected works and extracts from the large body of writings by Swetansu. Experiments in Composition (Poetry), Narration (Fiction), Translation (Influence) and Meditation (Discipline) abound the contents of this website.
Extracts from Swetansu’s upcoming philosophical fiction ‘Nine Years – A Tale of Love, Lies and Life’ can also be read under ‘Nine Years‘ in the Narrations category of this website.
It is the intent of the author to take the reader on a journey through one of the most immersive yet seldom understood propositions of life ~ that of everywhere, yet no where, that of near yet far, that of there yet not.
Swetansu can be reached directly through the Contact Page of this Website.