Life's reflections
W. CHANDRAKANTH
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This book speaks of the reasons of the heart.
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Four different forewords have been written for this work by Pasumarthi Nagendra Kumar. All the four seasoned opinions veer around the `luminous' nature of Nagendra Kumar's musings. Sakshaatkaram — call it poetry, call it prose or just an ensemble of thoughts - has an antiquity value.
This quality, perhaps, comes from the traditionalism that encompasses every line of the book. What's it ... camphor and incense burning at the altar... Read it deeper, one finds a theatrical convention omnipresent to it.
In between lines, there are volumes to be felt. The angst that pervades through Nagendra Kumar gets a truthful depiction in Amma, Vaana Chinukulu. The torture that the writer has undergone at the news of his mother's ailment and the joy of discovering how fleeting the pain could be, acquire a new fragrance in the words. In essence, the entire compilation is about these two aspects of the heart — pain and joy. Of celebration and beauty.
For a thoughtful reader, sometimes, the work may mean nothing. A void may set in. But it is this void that the writer seeks to probe. The musings stun us with the intense glow of colour and light.
An ordinary rainy day or a child playing in the lap of his mother or a flower bathed in the early morning dew become surrealistic paintings goading the reader to return again and again. This lyrical quality lends an extraordinary flavour of epiphany to the book — it invokes God's presence in the world — manifest to all forms of life!
The writer chisels his thoughts with great care and delicately balances the aesthetics but his penchant for profundity sometimes confuses the reader as in Bhuvana Krida. He may be forgiven for this aberration, as on the whole the book makes for a pleasant reading.
Remember, Sakshaatkaram is not for discussion. It is for experiencing one's inner self — to some extent at least. Better still, if one does not compare it to the works of any English poets. The book comes with a lovely title design by Bapu and is distributed by the Visaalandhra Publishing House.
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