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through many books and interviews andreached up to 'Bhartiya Saundaryabodh AurTulsidas'(2001) giving many toweringtriumphs of criticism. Once theseimportant writings came up it was expectedthat the Hindi intellectual world wouldbe jolted in discussing criticism, collectivethinking and exchange of ideas but it didnot, still a bit of self-evaluation did start.Is criticism a parasitic activity or is ita creation in itself ? What creationsRamvilas Sharma's writing have done forus? Undoubtedly there is a creator (writer)sitting inside a critic, an artist, otherwisethere will be no great critic. Once RamvilasSharma had said, "It is wrong to considercriticism as writing. As I trace the similaritybetween writing and criticism I amreminded of Bhartendu...very few peopleknow that Bhartenduji is indeed the fatherof modern criticism." (Aaj Ke Sawal AurMarxwad). We can say a story 'dipicts'while the criticism 'analyses'. It is strangethat in both there is repudiation and inboth there is recreation and rewriting insome way or the other. We can see in eachof Ramvilas Sharma's criticism 'repudiationas well as recreation paired together'. Heis always repudiating some orthodoxy orEuropean ideology and giving out somenew ideas and creativity which come outof his criticism like a sculptor does withhammer and chisel on a stone. RamvilasSharma also recreates a new ideology anda new point of view. We consider thepairing of repudiation important becausethese days we find everywhere repudiationswith reconstruction, while this is alsoimportant as to what we are reconstructing.Criticism is the cultural representativeof society's artistic flavour, for its subjectis not confined to a few writings but itencompasses the whole human race andthe entire culture. The value of criticismsprings from writings along with life,neither exclusively from creative writingsnor from ideologies. Criticism removes thehurdles of creative writing and allows itto move forward, it opens up the innerthoughts of creative writings, but mostlyit opens ordinary reader and student's mindto critical understanding.The Traditions of CriticismThe first thing in criticism is to know whatis to be preserved, what could berelinquished or changed. This wisdom doesnot build up in the air. In a country likeIndia it gets built by the collision of solidfeudalistic and imperialistic conditions.There is a burning question : what wecould or could not take from the past andalso from the west. The question beforeRamvilas Sharma was which elements oftraditions would be useful for men andwhich would not be. He concentrates onthat literature which is based on commonman's labour and not on the capitalistsection of society. He also makes it clear,"In old literature the possibility of collisionfgndi •April-June 2013 :: 33