Abhishek Sharma

“A great literary classic should not require an introductory essay and ten pages of footnotes to be understood. It should require a human heart and a curious mind.”
― Alok Mishra

“Literary criticism, to be precise, and when pursued beyond the boundaries of academic jargon, directly serves the collective consciousness of humanity! It should be carried out to encourage mass participation in the perusal of serious literature or to find seriousness even in the most playfully written literary works. Extending the hypothesis, every author has a thread or two hidden to conceal the life lessons that are layered beneath the entertaining episodes in the storyline. Readers, at large, given their busy and callous lifestyle bereaved of the aesthetic values, may conveniently ignore toiling to reveal those layers; it is, therefore, incumbent upon literary critics to make it happen!”
― Alok Mishra

“Poetry is the rhythm composed in solitude and distributed to the masses.”
― Alok Mishra

“Solitude is a powerful tool; the master who uses this tool must have courage, conviction, experience and vision!”
― Alok Mishra