Significance of title Can You Make Out.- SANJANA S NAIR

India is a country having a highly complex social mosaic. Each person represents a particular ethnicity, religion and cast. This vast spread cultural diversity was not much chaotic and they blended into their respective positions. But it is not always possible for national unity and diversity to coexist. Kumar Vikal has pointed out this communal issues in his poem 'can you make out'. Here the poet is asking whether you can make out the religion or ethnicity of a person's blood or tears that they shed while being killed in these brutal riots. From the question that is raised in the title, we can discern that it is impossible. Because at the end of the day we are all humans with the same flesh and blood. The expressions such as broken cycles, scattered tiffin carrier and worn-out shoes represent the socially and economically disadvantaged people and not the powerful and wealthy ones. They are the victims of such communal massacres. Kumar Vikal reveals through his poem that cast, creed, religion and beliefs are unnecessary boundaries created by us humans inorder to suppress the weak ones.