![]() ![]() ![]() I mumbledsomething innocuous: “No Shahid-of course not. I didnot know how to respond: his voice was completely at odds with the contentof what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I can’t see a thing.”There was a brief pause and then he added: “I hope this doesn’t meanthat I’m dying …”Although Shahid and I had talked a great deal over the last manyweeks, I had never before heard him touch on the subject of death. I heard him thumbing through his engagementbook and then suddenly he said: “Oh dear. ![]() I had telephonedto remind him that we had been invited to a friend’s house forlunch and that I was going to come by his apartment to pick him up.Although he had been under treatment for cancer for some fourteenmonths, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except foroccasional lapses of memory. AMITAV GHOSH“The Ghat of the Only World”:Agha Shahid Ali in Brooklyn *THE first time that Agha Shahid Ali spoke to me about his approachingdeath was on 25 April 2001.
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