Shahid was residing in Manhattan in when he had a sudden blackout in February 2000. ![]() Hence, he decides to fulfill the pledge he made that day to Shahid. The author tries to reassure Shahid that everything would be fine, but the once optimistic man was skeptical to listen to anything that he had to say. ![]() A man once filled with great optimism, but what happens when he is informed that he has a deadly disease of cancer that will bite his back for life? His usual thoughts and attitude stray away from normalcy, when the subject of death comes into picture.Ī day comes when Shahid pours out all of the bad news to the author, and requests the author to write about him when he is gone. Shahid was a man of great stature and he lived like there is no tomorrow. ![]() The following piece is what Amitav Ghosh wrote to keep his promise.Īmitav Ghosh talks about his good friend, Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri poet touching the world of poetry. Catch the full story here: The Ghat of the Only WordĪ dying man, an expatriate from Kashmir, asks the author to write something about him after he is gone.
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