The poets Shivangi Goenka, Yash Kanodia, Saransh Gupta and Disha Agarwal with minimal sentences yet with deep thought provoking ideas and heart and gut wrenching emotions show you reflections of the very human nature and its transcendence and regression and the very same reflection of how our society is. In each of the 60 poems in this book, I smiled for the amusing tales, I cried for the trauma and tragedy faced by the protagonist in the small tales of the poems, I found myself related to the poems as if they were the stories of my own life.
The common experience I had while reading all these poems was, that I saw; I saw how life can be ruthless and merciless, how the trauma caused by various incidents of life, force you to end your life or live it lifelessly for very rare come out as survivors. There are times when we are lost, we have lost our paths, we forget where are we supposed to be headed and have no idea of where are we heading towards. Then there is also the case of not being able to look beyond the visible, how we believe everything we see, hear and feel what lies in front of us but not ready to expand our vision and accept the various possibilities and probabilities that could make the visible, we also aren't too flexible to see from the other end. Our desire to explore the other, in the physical, emotional and relational aspect helps us see ourselves and also the world around us, how romance for ourselves and for others not only changes our perspective but also enhances it.
All the above situations are the themes or as the poets rightly put it, the Shades through which our gaze is widened not only to see the big picture but to see in which shade does our reflection lie, for after seeing our reflection, after seeing who we are and what the world around us is, we have various choices at our disposal.
When we see ourselves in the mirror we are conscious and embarrassed by the flaws in us, we cover them up and then see ourselves again, we hope for those flaws to be removed so that when we see ourselves again we can be relieved, hence we work on them, the similar case can't be said while looking in the mirror of our mind. "The mirror shows us how we really are yet our mind craves to look in a certain way, similarly the mirror of our mind shows us WHO we really are but that craving to see our better self is lost ". Similarly when I began reading it I was disturbed, scarred and uncomfortable, for maybe because i wasn't ready to see the truths that the book was asking me to face, the possibilities of human nature and potential that I found hard to come to terms with, that face of the society, that I wasn't ready to see yet I knew it existed, but it was through these poems of the book that I could see my possibilities, an ability to see myself and decide as to how I choose to see myself and the world around me.
To conclude, I'd say all these shades are the shades of one mirror. We walk around as individuals, we come alone, we leave alone, but we are "WE" even when we walk alone we are with our shadows, hence we aren't really alone. There are many instances that when I read this book, I felt emotional for incidents i never experienced, yet I managed to empathize with the story in the poem. Thus the reflection of apathy which is a reality in today's times leads to a vision of empathy, which is a possibility. This can be a shade we would love to see in the mirror when we see ourselves again.
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