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made criticism a pure literary subject, theywouldn't open a social window. There weremany who would immediately commenton any writing without going deep intothe ideas of the writing. Sometimes thecritic was an interpreter only. This conceptof purity of literature had harmed Hindiliterature more than the literature of anyother language in India. There was greaterinfluence of the Western Modernistprinciples on Hindi literature that is whythe pressure of literary purity was moreon this literature. Ram Vilas Sharma hastargeted both Political parochialism andliterary purity. His views were very clearabout the relation of literature with societyand the speciality of literature. "In orderto understand any age it is necessary toknow economic relations, but art andliterature are not the shadows of thisrelationship... Besides economic life manlives a life of a human being also. In oldliterature the possibility of showing theconfrontation of different classes is rare.The progressive literature is progressive onlywhen it is literature also. If it does nottouch the heart of people and the readeris not influenced by it, then it is only sloganmongering and talking of propagandawould not make it great literature, not evenordinary literature... Besides aestheticbeauty it should be able to help in theprogress of man and society" (Marxism andProgressive Literature). By such commentshe is moving away from politicalparochialism.Literature is not only a way of thinking."Art is related not only to thought butto the emotions and their realizationthrough senses." (Faith and Beauty) At thispoint literature achieves universality alongwith its raciality. A man's thoughts reflecthis social position, but poet, writer andartist at the intellectual level sometimesviolate the conditions of society. Ram VilasSharma makes an important comment,"Human consciousness has the capacity torise above this social conditions and risingabove thoughts and material limits it cancomparatively develop at a higher levelfreely."(ibid) Kalidas and Kabeer could risehigher. This is true even in the contextof the pressures of too much globalmaterialism. Man can think rising aboveconsumerism and fanaticism. Though thepower of resistance cannot erase, but theyare present in all the age. Actually the abovestatement shows the signs of beliefs in theman's creative, intellectual and aestheticsensibilities.Ram Vilas Sharma says somethingregarding Nagarjun's love for beauty, "Thepoet loves beauty and the beauty does notmean only a woman's beauty but thebeauty of human life, beauty of nature.The more he loves beauty the more hewill hate the foul decay of society. He willlike to change this society." (Marxism andQuestions of Today). He talks about Indianaesthetic sensibilities and understands it byevaluation of traditions. He did not go deepinto contemporary literature. It is difficult48 :: April-June 2013fgndi •