A Multidimensional Man: Akshay Sharma
Author • Publisher • Actor • Composer • Entrepreneur • Producer • Speaker
There are people who choose a profession. There are people who build a career. And then there are those who feel that choosing just one path would mean leaving a part of themselves behind.
Akshay Sharma belongs to that rare category.
An author, publisher, actor, music composer, entrepreneur, producer and speaker, Sharma’s journey has crossed engineering, literature, publishing, cinema, music and public speaking. Yet behind all these identities is something much more intimate: his search for peace through art. He believes art is a mixture of emotions.
For Sharma, art is not merely what he does. It is where he feels most at home.
Away from the noise. Away from the relentless hustle. Away from expectations. Away, sometimes, from people themselves. When everything becomes too loud, he creates. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand his unconventional journey.
THE DREAM THAT BEGAN WITH MUSIC
Born into a family of musicians, Sharma’s childhood was surrounded by music. Long before publishing, cinema or entrepreneurship entered his life, there was one dream that stayed with him: to become a musician.
During his college years, he began performing at several music shows and became part of a band called Audioslaves.
For a young man who loved music, those moments on stage were more than performances. They were glimpses of the life he imagined.
But life rarely follows the script we write for ourselves.
In 2013, Sharma became an Electrical Engineer and entered the professional world. For six years, engineering became his career.
From the outside, it was a conventional and respectable path. Inside, however, another story was unfolding.
While working as an engineer, he continued writing. He studied creative writing. He continued learning music. He kept feeding the creative side of himself that refused to disappear.
The job gave him stability. Art gave him peace.
Eventually, he made a decision that many people around him could not understand.
He chose to leave the conventional path and pursue an unconventional life.
People who knew him questioned the decision. Why leave a stable engineering career? Why choose uncertainty? Why walk away from something secure for something that offered no guarantees?
What they perhaps did not understand was that Sharma was not simply quitting a job.
He was choosing a life that felt authentic to him.
THE BOOK THAT OPENED A NEW DOOR
In 2018, Sharma released his debut novel, The Flying Dreams.
The book went on to become a National Bestseller, giving his literary journey its first major breakthrough.
The engineer had become an author.
But he was only getting started.
His subsequent novel in 2024, A Writer on a Mission: The Rise of Astraavan, expanded his storytelling onto an international canvas, reaching readers across numerous countries.
His literary journey continued with Icons of Bharat in 2026, a celebration of Indian achievers and personalities.
His upcoming works include Ashes to King, Meninist, and Astraavan: The Legend, tentatively scheduled from the end of 2026 through 2028.
But beyond the titles and books lies something Akshay values even more: where those stories travel.
His literary reach has extended across politics, cinema, literature, sports and public life. His books have reached personalities including Amitabh Bachchan, KGF star Yash, Mrs. Sudha Murty, astronaut Rakesh Sharma, actor Kabir Bedi and VVS Laxman, among others.
His work has also reached international audiences and has been showcased in Times Square, New York.
For Sharma, however, reach is not simply a social-media number.
A book reaching a stranger matters.
A story crossing a border matters.
A reader discovering something in his words matters.
That is the kind of reach he believes lasts.
FROM AUTHOR TO PUBLISHER
Becoming an author could have been the destination. For Sharma, it became another beginning.
He entered the publishing world through Mark-Fly Publishers, established in 2019, building a platform that could help other writers bring their stories into the world.
Through the Mark-Fly ecosystem, Sharma has credited and supported 500-plus authors.
The transition says something important about his philosophy.
He did not want to only tell his own story.
He wanted to create space for other people to tell theirs.
The boy who once needed a platform for his own creative dream eventually became someone capable of building platforms for others.
FROM PUBLISHING TO RECOGNITION
That philosophy eventually evolved into the CLA Global Awards.
What began as the Coimbatore Literary Awards grew into a broader platform recognising authors, achievers and professionals across multiple fields.
Through CLA, 100-plus authors have been recognised.
Sharma has also participated as a Chief Guest and Guest of Honour at various award platforms, personally presenting recognition to 1,000-plus individuals across different fields.
The CLA Global Awards ecosystem has an overall reported reach of approximately 1.5 million.
Yet for Sharma, recognition is not really about the trophy.
It is about the person holding it.
It is about the years of work nobody saw.
The failures that never appeared in headlines.
The nights when someone wondered whether the dream was worth pursuing.
Perhaps recognition matters to him because he understands what it feels like to work before recognition arrives.
He knows the value of being told, “Your work matters.”
And through CLA, he has helped tell that to many others.
WHEN THE AUTHOR WALKED INTO CINEMA
The next chapter took Sharma from pages to screens.
He entered Indian cinema as an actor and appeared in the Tamil film Pathu Thala (2023).
But once again, one role was not enough to contain his interests.
His cinematic work expanded behind the camera as well, including his role as Executive Producer and Hindi dialogue writer on Bhai Sleeper Cell.
His journey continues toward Pan-India cinema, creating another avenue through which his work can reach audiences.
For Sharma, cinema was not a departure from writing.
It was another language of storytelling.
The author could now become the character.
The storyteller could participate in production.
The imagination that once existed only on paper could begin taking visual form.
THE MUSICIAN COMES HOME
And then there is music.
The first dream.
The one that never really left.
The college performer.
The member of Audioslaves.
The engineer who continued studying music.
The author who learned to build worlds through words.
Eventually, Sharma returned to music as a composer.
He has created original music associated with his creative novel projects, including The Pain of Ronny and A Writer on a Mission, during 2022–2023.
Now, he continues developing music for upcoming projects, including Ashes to King, scheduled for release on September 1, 2026.
There is an emotional symmetry to this part of the story.
He spent years moving away from the dream he had as a child, only to eventually return to it carrying everything he had learned along the way.
The musician had not been lost. He had simply been waiting.
THE SPEAKER AND THE BUILDER
Sharma’s journey has also taken him onto stages as a speaker.
He has delivered 150-plus talks at institutions, award shows and organisations, including IIT-BHU Varanasi, the University of Lucknow, Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, and Wells Fargo, among others.
Speaking became another way of sharing what his own journey had taught him.
This philosophy is also reflected in his entrepreneurship.
Through Mark-Fly Publishers and CLA Global Awards, Sharma has built platforms that extend beyond his individual creative work.
He is not simply creating for himself.
He is creating an ecosystem around creation.
THE STRUGGLE BEHIND THE SUCCESS
Today, the list sounds impressive:
Author.
Publisher.
Actor.
Composer.
Entrepreneur.
Producer.
Speaker.
But behind those titles was an engineer who once had to make a difficult choice.
There was a young musician whose dream had to wait.
There was a professional who spent six years in engineering while feeling that another part of his potential remained unexplored.
There was an aspiring author who had to take the risk of putting his first story into the world.
There was a publisher who had to build trust.
An actor entering an unfamiliar industry.
A composer returning to music.
An entrepreneur building ventures.
A speaker standing before audiences and sharing a story that was still being written.
Every new identity required him to begin again. And beginning again is never easy.
Especially when the people closest to you do not always understand why you are doing it.
But Sharma continued.
Because somewhere beneath the uncertainty was a feeling he trusted more than conventional advice:
Peace.
WHY ART OVER EVERYTHING?
There is a practical argument that a person should become highly specialised in one field, build a stable career and eventually achieve everything through that one expertise.
Sharma understands that argument.
But he does not entirely believe in it.
He believes that becoming multidimensional can help a person survive, learn, earn and sustain themselves while discovering where their deepest calling ultimately lies.
Different skills can support one another.
Writing can strengthen acting.
Acting can deepen storytelling.
Music can change the emotional language of a story.
Engineering can provide discipline and structure.
Entrepreneurship can create the infrastructure that allows creativity to survive.
But Sharma’s reason for creating across different disciplines goes deeper than economics.
He simply enjoys it.
For him, creativity is a gift.
And a gift, he believes, should not be locked away simply because the world expects a person to choose one identity.
If he has a story, he writes.
If he has music inside him, he composes.
If there is a character he wants to portray, he acts.
If an author needs a platform, he builds one.
If an achiever deserves recognition, he gives it.
If someone needs to hear an idea, he speaks.
Creation itself is the reward.
A DIFFERENT MEANING OF REACH
For Sharma, reach is not defined solely by social media.
It exists in books travelling across borders, music finding listeners through different channels, cinema reaching audiences, authors finding publishing opportunities, achievers receiving recognition and people hearing an idea that changes the way they see their own possibilities.
His books have reached readers and personalities across countries and fields. His publishing journey has connected him with 500-plus authors. His award-related work has seen 1,000-plus individuals receive recognition, while the CLA Global Awards ecosystem has reached approximately 1.5 million.
His music and cinema provide further avenues through which his work can travel.
For Sharma, these are not merely statistics.
They are people.
And people, rather than numbers, remain at the centre of how he understands influence.
THE FIRST MAN OF A NEW CREATIVE ERA
Sometimes the unconventional road is not the road away from success. It is the road toward the life you were meant to create.
Akshay Sharma’s journey is that of a musician who became an engineer, an engineer who became an author, an author who became a publisher, a publisher who built an awards platform, a writer who entered cinema, an actor who moved behind the camera, and a musician who ultimately returned as a composer.
But beneath all those transitions is one constant: the need to create.
He did not choose art because it was the easiest road.
He chose it because it gave him something the conventional path could not give him: peace.
And perhaps, after all the books, films, songs, ventures, awards and stages, the most honest description of Akshay Sharma remains the simplest one:
He is an artist who found peace in creating—and refused to stop.
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