Profound Thoughts by Kavitha Yarlagadda

Book: Profound Thoughts
Author: Kavitha Yarlagadda
Publisher: Amazon Kindle
Price: ₹199
Pages: 34                                                                                                                                                        

Profound Thoughts explores heart-touching feelings which reflect the flavors of life, the madness of love, the value of time, racial discrimination, female infanticide, finding beauty in the most mundane things, different emotions, nature, and femininity. Featuring sixty soul-stirring poems arranged in alphabetical order that condemn the abuse of nature, traverse different facets of our emotions, and touch on femininity and fitness. We can resonate with every poem, which reminds us of our daily routine which we otherwise tend to ignore caught up in the pressure of deadlines. The below poem Colour addresses the issue of racial discrimination which divides barriers between people deeply wounding them.

Sun breaking into the dawn with its vivid colors of yellow and orange looked even more spectacular against the blue blanket of the sky. The never-ending stretch of blue water gives us a sense of calmness reminding us to slow down, live and experience each moment of our life. The green canopy of trees spread out swaying gently promising us everything we want from life. The brown sand, red mud, and black soil all silently remind us of our existence. The pitch blackness of those dark nights is dreary yet promises a brighter beginning. A young girl playing in the park slips and hurts herself, writhing in pain and her dress is stained red with blood. The vibrant rainbow peeped through the passing clouds showing off its bright colors. Across borders all over the world, the colors of nature are the same and will stay the same, and every person irrespective of caste, creed, and color will function similarly.

Yet racial discrimination is extensively seen all over the world irrespective of any region, why are racism and colorism still so prevalent? Discrimination towards colored people is a man-made barrier that we have created to satisfy the egos of certain people. When a DNA test cannot identify the race of a person when filling a box doesn’t make much sense in identifying our race, then why is skin color given more importance than the feelings of a person?

A woman may mother children of different colors but that doesn’t make her biased toward a child of one color over the other, for her, all her children are the same. Then why this craziness over color? Why does the skin color of people evoke favoritism or vice versa? Why are we so averse to the multitude of colors that pass through a kid’s face when he is bullied at school because of his color? Racial discrimination is wearing a colored mask and pretending not to see the harm and chaos we’re causing in an innocent person’s life preventing and denying him from dreaming about a colorful and successful future.

Book Review by Ankush Bajpai