Book Review: “Voids of Silence” by Lalit Mohan Sharma

In Voids of Silence, Lalit Mohan Sharma presents a collection of poems that echo the meditative rhythm of a seasoned thinker and the acute sensibility of a man deeply attuned to his inner and outer worlds. Published by Astitva Prakashan in 2025, this anthology of seventy-one poems moves effortlessly between the political and the personal, the spiritual and the sensory, the historical and the deeply human. Sharma, a bilingual poet with a formidable academic background, demonstrates once again that poetry is not merely an art form for him, it is a means of self-inquiry, a moral compass, and a mirror held up to a fractured world.

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