Enclaves of the mind

The violence in Assam was subsiding though the devastation remained when the tale of Saadat Hasan Manto, the picaresque Pakistani writer whose birth centenary is being celebrated this year, reminded me of another Muslim intellectual who is in every way his opposite. I mean Dr Saharuddin Ahmed, Guwahati State Museum’s director, whose Sanskrit chanting still resonates in my ears. I was captivated at our first meeting when he recited from a medieval Sanskrit poem...

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