fहndi - Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya

fहndi - Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya fहndi - Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya

hindivishwa.org
from hindivishwa.org More from this publisher
13.07.2015 Views

"Kavita" was a record of the sense ofalienation that this generation felt in thecontemporary scheme of things. It expressesthe basic difference between two greatwriters without undermining theirreputations as two literary stalwarts of theBengali language.Ganga Prasad Vimal, born 1939, is a poet, novelist and an academician. He has taughtat a college in Delhi University and in J.N.U. He was director at Central Hindi Directorate,New Delhi. His latest novel Manushkhor from Kitabaghar has been well received. He livesin New Delhi.Shobha Narain is reader in English at Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. She writesshort stories in Hindi and translates from Hindi to English. She lives in New Delhi.fgndi •April-June 2013 :: 29

The Concerns of CriticismShambhunathPramila GargRam Vilas Sharma has said while talking about Ralph Fox, "ForFox human life, society and literature are inseparable. The enthusiasmwith which he worked to change human life, the same enthusiasmhe showed in writing about literature. He was not the type of criticwho dealt in unemotional analysis of facts and figures; rather whateverhe wrote about literature, it was from his heart and feelings."(Introduction to Novel and Society) Unquestionably this statementis true for Ramvilas Sharmaji himself. In Hindi literature there hadbeen a crowd of unemotional analysts who as critics had dealt withfacts and figures only. He was different from such critics. He raisedHindi criticism to a higher level as a Marxist critic. He had putHindi criticism to that height which was possible when a critichas got a lofty goal and he tries to raise himself above mechanicalanalysis and when he has a definite vision of changing the wholehuman life. Today the place of criticism has shrunk a lot. Thisis not criticism but blatant praise, image management. Now is theseason of brand ambassadors, either it is paid criticism or an issueof management. Sometimes it is intentional massacre of ideologiesor an effort to move ahead in competition by treading over others.Now there is dearth of thought in criticism that is why everywhere30 :: April-June 2013fgndi •

The Concerns of CriticismShambhunathPramila GargRam Vilas Sharma has said while talking about Ralph Fox, "ForFox human life, society and literature are inseparable. The enthusiasmwith which he worked to change human life, the same enthusiasmhe showed in writing about literature. He was not the type of criticwho dealt in unemotional analysis of facts and figures; rather whateverhe wrote about literature, it was from his heart and feelings."(Introduction to Novel and Society) Unquestionably this statementis true for Ramvilas Sharmaji himself. In <strong>Hindi</strong> literature there hadbeen a crowd of unemotional analysts who as critics had dealt withfacts and figures only. He was different from such critics. He raised<strong>Hindi</strong> criticism to a higher level as a Marxist critic. He had put<strong>Hindi</strong> criticism to that height which was possible when a critichas got a lofty goal and he tries to raise himself above mechanicalanalysis and when he has a definite vision of changing the wholehuman life. Today the place of criticism has shrunk a lot. Thisis not criticism but blatant praise, image management. Now is theseason of brand ambassadors, either it is paid criticism or an issueof management. Sometimes it is intentional massacre of ideologiesor an effort to move ahead in competition by treading over others.Now there is dearth of thought in criticism that is why everywhere30 :: April-June 2013fgndi •

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!