About the Author

Between the Professor and the Poet, Between the Scholar and the Smile

Professor Abha Bhardwaj Sharma has spent over three decades in the company of words, minds, and ideas, teaching, writing, and inspiring generations of students to see literature not as a syllabus but as a mirror of life itself. In academic circles, she is known for her precision, discipline, and her deep grasp of English literature. But online, she walks with a second name, a lighter, wittier alter ego, known to her readers as ABS, The Literary Scholar, or sometimes Professor ABS, the voice that turns Shakespeare into a friend, Chaucer into a gossip columnist, and T S Eliot into a coffee companion.

A distinguished academic, Professor Sharma holds postgraduate and doctoral degrees in English Literature, specializing in Feminist Studies. Based in Jaipur, she has been teaching for more than thirty years, guiding college and university students across every major period of English literary history. Her career began in the classroom, but her influence has expanded far beyond it to bookshelves, lecture halls, YouTube channels, and digital platforms where her wit, depth, and unrelenting curiosity continue to redefine how literature can be experienced.

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The Dual Voice: The Professor and ABS

There are two voices that live on The Literary Scholar, and both belong to her.
One wears spectacles of scholarship, the other wears a mischievous smile.

Professor Abha Bhardwaj Sharma writes as The Professor, the serious scholar, the meticulous guide who believes in structure, understanding, and substance. Her tone here is that of the academic mentor who unpacks Milton’s theology, Eliot’s philosophy, or Shakespeare’s psychology with depth, accuracy, and care. This is the voice for the students, the ones preparing for examinations, research, or intellectual clarity. When The Professor writes, it feels like a well lit lecture hall where every word is a revelation and every text a conversation across time.

Then comes ABS, her literary twin and witty counterpart.
ABS is all that academia often forgets, sarcastic, humorous, ironic, and joyfully unfiltered. ABS does not stand at the podium, ABS leans on it with a smirk.
When ABS writes, literature becomes theatre. Milton turns into a perfectionist workaholic, Wordsworth becomes a philosopher in a flower field, and the Victorians blush under modern scrutiny. Her ABS pieces carry the same depth as her academic work, but they wear humour like a crown, an artful rebellion against dull interpretation.

Together, these two voices create a rare synthesis, the serious and the satirical, the scholar and the storyteller. Students often begin with The Professor and stay for ABS. Once they have understood the depths of literature, they find delight in ABS’s lightness. And for those who start with ABS’s wit, curiosity soon leads them to The Professor’s more measured insights.

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A Legacy of Books and Learning

With over fifty published books to her name, Professor Sharma’s authorship spans a vast range of subjects including academic guides, literary criticism, self help works, and books on Neuro Linguistic Programming. Her literary texts, including History of English Literature in multiple volumes, Literary Terms Made Easy, Literary Criticism Made Easy, and Literary Theory Made Easy, have become essential resources for students preparing for UGC NET, university exams, and advanced literary studies across India and abroad.

Her works on Neuro Linguistic Programming, six comprehensive books covering health, wealth, love, stress, anxiety, and depression, reflect her belief that language not only expresses thought but also shapes it. Through these, she bridges the world of literature with the psychology of transformation, offering readers a path from understanding the written word to rewriting their own inner script.

Her recent self help and reflective works, The Me I See Is the Me I Am and I Am a Miracle, carry her signature blend of insight and empathy. But perhaps the most striking recent publication is The Fire Within Her, a powerful feminist critique across South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, exploring how women’s voices, once silenced by culture and history, now blaze through resistance and reinvention.

Through all her writing, whether literary, philosophical, or psychological, her central belief remains unchanged: Words are not mere tools of description, but instruments of awakening.

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Miracle Institute: The Classroom that Became a Movement

Professor Abha Bhardwaj Sharma is also the founder and director of Miracle English Language and Literature Institute, Since 1998,  Jaipur, one of the most respected learning spaces for English studies in India. For over twenty seven years, the institute has been a guiding force for college and university students preparing for UGC NET, Honours, and Postgraduate programs.

Miracle Institute covers every major branch of English studies including American, African, Caribbean, Canadian, Australian, and Indian Literature, as well as Linguistics and English Language Teaching programs. Thousands of students from across India and abroad have studied under her mentorship, gaining not only academic excellence but also a renewed love for literature as a living, breathing discipline.

The institute continues to uphold its founding vision: to bring depth, clarity, and creativity to every learner, and to make English literature not merely a subject of study but a celebration of thought.

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The Scholar’s Universe

Professor Sharma’s world extends far beyond the printed page. Her YouTube channel, Miracle English Language and Literature, houses over two hundred lectures on English authors, theories, and examinations. It continues to draw students, researchers, and literature lovers from around the world, demonstrating her deep commitment to democratizing education and making literature accessible, engaging, and relevant to every generation.

Her digital vision, TheLiteraryScholar.com, brings together everything she stands for, a structured yet soulful archive of English literature written in two unique styles, The Scrolls of Scholarship and The Scrolls of Wit. The site blends the intellectual rigour of The Professor with the playfulness of ABS, allowing readers to learn, laugh, and reflect in equal measure.

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The Scholar’s Philosophy

For Professor Sharma, literature is not a museum of dead authors, it is a living conversation.
She often says, “Writers never die, they just change readers.”

Every scroll she writes, whether under the Literosophy series, The Scholar’s Scrolls, or The Rhyming Mind, carries this belief, that reading is not an academic duty but a creative dialogue. Her humor, even in scholarly topics, is deliberate, it breaks the monotony of rote learning and reminds us that intelligence is most alive when it can laugh.

She represents a rare generation of teachers who have witnessed the entire arc of education, from chalkboards to algorithms, from handwritten notes to digital scripts, and yet remain timeless in passion and purpose. Her presence in the literary ecosystem, whether through her institute, her books, or her digital platforms, embodies the very ethos of her pseudonym Anant the Timeless.

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The City, the Mind, and the Mission

Rooted in the pink city of Jaipur, Professor Sharma continues to teach, write, and inspire. Her days are filled with manuscripts, students, discussions, and digital creativity, each reflecting her enduring belief that education is the most elegant rebellion against ignorance.

Her work is both personal and universal. As an educator, she gives direction. As ABS, she gives laughter. And as a thinker, she gives meaning. Whether you approach her as Professor Abha Bhardwaj Sharma or as The Literary Scholar, you find the same essence, clarity, curiosity, and courage.

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Final Words

In the age of scrolling distractions, The Literary Scholar offers something different, a slow read that stays. It is not just a blog; it is a bridge between classrooms and conversations, between intellectual depth and human warmth.

Behind it stands one woman,
Professor Abha Bhardwaj Sharma,
who answers to many names,
The Literary Scholar, ABS, Professor ABS, or simply The Professor.
Whichever name you choose, the voice remains the same, witty, wise, and wondrously timeless.