Meanwhile,Premankur Biswas finds artist Debarshi Roy using a new medium to capture the pains of the elderly at this vector art exhibition

Old age disturbed Yeats. But more than the years, the Irish poet was frustrated by the popular tendency of associating inertness with it. He wanted to “beat upon the wall” and break free from the burden of the stereotype. While Debarshi Roy, an advertising consultant whose exhibition of digital art on senior citizens was inaugurated in Oxford Bookstore this Friday, may not adopt the passion of Yeats’ words to convey his concerns, his frames echo similar sentiments. “Old age is associated with frailty and helplessness. That shouldn’t be the rule, one must celebrate age with dignity and confidence,” states Roy. Continue