![]() Ghat is an Urdu word also used in Hindi which means a place at a riverbank from where the boats depart with passengers to the other side. He feels that his beloved ones call him from the other world. It is, therefore, a tribute to Aga Shahid a poignant obituary that gives us a very poignant vision of this is a profoundly emotional response to a friend’s desire to write something about him after his death. Now, to fulfil his promise, Amitav Gosh responds with this beautifully warm piece of writing in which he not only talks about the world of Agha Shahid Ali’s verse but also about his personal experience of moments shared with him. ” Both Shahid and Shaheed-”witness and martyr “- mixed and melted eternally. Shahid spoke to the author about his approaching death for the first time and asked him to write something about him after his death.Īn indomitable emptiness fills the mind of the author.” So brief a friendship ” results in ” so vast a void. On 25 April 2000, the writer phoned Shahid and reminded him of their friend’s invitation to lunch. The writer lived a few blocks away, too, and the two met very often. Shahid now moved to Brooklyn in order to be close to his youngest sister. With his students, Shahid was very popular. On, the author went to Shahid, where he worked as a teacher. The tests showed that he had cerebral cancer. Shahid had a sudden blackout in February 2000. From 1998 to 1999, the two had several phone conversations and even met a couple of times. One of them contacted the author, Shahid. The author had read some poems and was very impressed. Shahid used to write poems and published a collection of his poems. The two sisters of Shahid also joined them later. Shahid belonged to Kashmir and moved to America in 1975 where his brother had already been settled. However, their time at the university had overlapped briefly. The author and Shahid were both studying at the University of Delhi. The writer had a friend named Agha Shahid who knew he wouldn’t live because he suffered a brain tumour, so he asked the writer to write about him when he wouldn’t be there anymore. Short summary of The Ghat of The Only World ![]()
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