It is not only to make an acquaintance with the people and places in the poems that I decide to rest in these poems.
In them is the grace of light, something that enables vision but isn’t needy for attention. ‘Proverbs, born/here go places further/than men do’. Sharma’s poems travel further than most poems do. The poet as mountaineer – in "The Land Below Water", Manik Sharma brings an exciting new aesthetic to Indian Poetry in English. Sumana Roy, Poet, India