BROKEN MODERNITY: SANKAR SARKAR’S POETIC INTERVENTION IN THE AGE OF FRAGMENTATION

Abstract

Sankar Sarkar’s Broken Modernity (2026) emerges as a compelling poetic intervention into the shattered knowledge of the twenty-first century. This critical study examines the collection as a significant contribution to contemporary poetry. It places within the heritage of modern and postmodernist anxieties while foregrounding its distinct ethical and artistic voice. Through a relative frame involving poets such as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Rabindranath Tagore, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Apollinaire and Mallarmé the paper explores Sarkar’s thematic preoccupations-disaffection, moral decay, technological disturbance, and the hunt for meaning. The study argues that Broken Modernity functions contemporaneously as a notice of civilizational breakdown and a poetic fiat of humanistic renewal.