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there is more flattery and allegation andcounter allegation. These are the two sidesof the same coin. That is why it is saidthe greater the dearth of thought the morebloody would be the encounters incriticism. When the society is divided ingroups its critical vision decays first. It isa matter of no small concern that criticismhas become a thing beyond the toleranceof society, because everywhere — culture,literature and politics people need onlyfollowers. That is why logic, democraticfeelings and tolerance all have becomebankrupt.In a good criticism, fact, thoughts andemotions speak together. This type ofcriticism and opportunistic criticism cannotpossibly go together. I feel such criticismmakes us more insecure and it attacks ourideological fanaticism. Hence criticism hasno place in the fanatic world. Even in theworld of criticism fanaticism has no place.Ram Vilas Sharma has continuallystruggled against three fanaticismsthroughout his life, orthodoxies and rituals,technical and physical science beliefs andpost imperialistic dogmas. He wasideologically in confrontation with all threeideologies, i.e. the dogmatisms of archaicconventionalist, mechanized materialistsand eastern subalterns, altogether. He wrotefor the society but not for socialrecognition. It is important to note howhe has developed the criticism practisedby Bhartendu Harish Chandra, MahavirPrasad Diwedi, Ramchandra Shukla andfgndi •Hazari Prasad Diwedi. He was such a criticwho was standing amidst the challengesof society and writing his criticism andexpressing his views not from personal butfrom the reader's social and racial pointof view. His entire writing is to make aplace for criticism in the world ofdogmatism. Hence his effort to make spacefor criticism was to make space for humanlife.Normally it is expected of critics todevelop reader's interest in thecontemporary literature and fill the gapbetween the new literary works and oldtaste of the readers and also refine theirtaste. Some such people could understandcriticism as a digestive tablet while someothers think that a critic is one whocremates any creative work in its infancy.Others call a critic, a hurdle between thereader and the creative perception of anywork and request the critic to move outof the way. He has been looked at withresentment and greed, because in theabsence of social recognition gradually thewriters themselves started desiring criticism.There has always been dissatisfactionamong the writers regarding critics' role.Political and commercial organizations havealways been intolerant of the critics. Today'smaterialistic economy has made mancopycats and hypocrites thus killing histhinking power. The modernism comingin India through this way is influencingthe already existing consumerist thinkingand also the feudal narrowness of mind.April-June 2013 :: 31