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to agree with him what he wrote aboutAgyey, Shamsher and Mukhiboth. He hadaccepted, "There is nothing like modernman" (ibid). That is why he is alert aboutthe relationship between tradition andmodernism. He feels that whateverinclinations we should have towardsrealism, and whatever relation ought to bewith the racial awakening that is absentthere. He sees in the literature connectedwith modern sensibility the acceptedelements of poetry are prohibited (banned),the problems of society are ignored, andthey look at them with a feeling ofconfusion and suffocation. After Nirala hismost loved poet is Kedarnath Aggarwal,he does not move ahead of this. Definitelyhe is more liberal towards traditions thantowards contemporariness. Hence theimportance of Ram Vilas Sharma's criticismshould not be evaluated on the basis ofwhat he comments on the contemporaryliterature, or what he had written aboutwoman and underdogs (Oppressed). Theneed is to see how extensively he hadevaluated traditions how much he had seenIndia, and how he made the chain of Hindireawakening which stood on the pillow ofsolid examples. He has once again revivedthe Indian aesthetic sensibility, and howthis could enlarge our hearts and what itcould do for the struggle againstImperialism.This is Bali Syndrome (Ramayana)There was an age of Ram Vilas Sharmawhen people would flock roundknowledgeable people, and the meaningof knowledge had not gone down.Knowledge was the part of consciousnessof wisdom only then it became moremeaningful. These days knowledge is notimportant. People flock around thosepersons who have money and power.Earlier there used to be intense hustle andbustle round Ram Vilas Sharma, eachperson would talk and discuss thingsamong themselves. Ram Vilas Sharma gaveMarxism national reinterpretation and toHindi criticism a prestige. He had oncesaid, "The role of brilliant people in thebuilding of literature is decisive. It doesn'tmean that whatever these people do is goodonly, or that in their excellent works thereare no faults. If an artistic creation has nofault in it, itself it is a fault, such art islifeless. (Evaluation of Traditions). This isalso applicable to Ram Vilas Sharma'swriting.Each critic has an ideological freezingpoint, after that he freezes and his flowstops. The vision with which he opens lotsof realities of the world, after a point theybecome hurdles in his own path. Stillwhatever Ram Vilas Sharma has given toHindi criticism it is superb. In his criticismbesides the beauty of arrangement(management) there is transparency,compatibility and objectivity.fgndi •April-June 2013 :: 49