Sunil Mishra, the author of Return of the Hypotenuse, a book of 23 poems and 29 essays on math and science, wrote his first poem on Newton’s law around two years ago for his 12-year-old daughter to recite at an elocution competition. “I couldn’t find an appropriate excerpt on the Internet for her to recite. So I jotted down a little poem, which she ended up reciting on stage,” says the 43-year-old chief business officer of an online real-estate portal.
The Chembur resident who studied from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) and earned an MBA from IIM-Bangalore, went on to scribble three to four peoms “just for fun.”