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drowning with shame or pride in it. Hehad made an intimate critical relation withthe past and changed it into an aestheticbliss and social awakening.The way Ram Vilas Sharma's criticismis joined together with the struggle of selfrealizationof Hindu race; similarly it isassociated with the struggle againstimperialism. He has gone into the researchof past for the sake of India's peaceful andindependent future. He feels that theproblems of community, regionalnarrowness have to be seen outside 'Indiannation' and understand our helplessnessagainst the onslaught of Imperialists on ourculture and economic system.Ram Vilas Sharma felt that the progressof Hindi literature is necessary not onlyfor the progress of Hindu community'scultural revival but for the upliftment ofIndia. Hindi literature's progress isnecessary for the progress of Hindustan.The position is that Hindi literature hasnot been able to make slightest space inthe Hindi belt. On the top of it there isthe desire of making IT hubs andmultiplexes and political parties as if allthese things would develop India. This isa great illusion. The reason why communalfights and religious hatred have extensivelyspread in India is only because we havenot used literature to create good willamong them. Now we are surrounded bycheap entertainment and a flood of films.Intellectualism has been enslaved by bigcapitals. Even writers themselves are seendisrespecting litterateurs; they are moreinvolved in destroying. They have lost theirgrounds. The cultural level of citizens ofany age is shown by the level of honourthey give to their litterateurs. Today thepeople are keener to know about the newconsumer goods than to know about theold writers and about new litterateurs. Thisis cultural poverty even if it is covered withbright colours and loud music, it does notallow us to see racial traditions. Those whoare afraid of the present they do not wantto face the facts of life. They fear racialtraditions also and actually they don't wantto face them.It is not enough to face traditions tomake a creative vision but thecontemporary confrontation is alsonecessary, "Without reading contemporaryliterature I can give answer to this question,the more close a literature is to socialrealities the stronger will it be. Theliterature in which contemporary problemsare discussed and shown the solutions tothose problems, there we should identifythe contemporariness." (ibid) Ram VilasSharma has no relation with thecontemporary literature which he hasaccepted honestly. But he had his eyescontinuously focused on his time's crisisof capitalism, problem of communalism,crisis of power and especially of casteismin the Hindi belt. He is alert towards thenew happenings of the world. He talksmore about people's awakening, neoawakeningand values of freedom struggle46 :: April-June 2013fgndi •