Dr Agha Ashraf Ali was shattered when his son, Agha Shahid Ali, the English poet, passed away in the US at a very young age. His another son, Iqbal teaches Mathematics at a university in the US. His daughter, Hena, teaches English at a university in Amherst, US. His another daughter also works in the US.
With the death of Dr Agha Ashraf Ali, Jammu and Kashmir lost a big man who was larger than life. I shall always remember his sparkling eyes, white hair, white moustache, his bewitching smile and his loud voice.
“This was a Man” (Shakespeare)
(Arvind Gigoo is a writer, translator and sculptor. He is the author of The Ugly Kashmiri (Cameos in Exile), Gulliver in Kashmir, and the co-editor of From Home to House – Writings of Kashmiri Pandits in Exile (Harper Collins, India). This is an opinion piece and the views expressed are the author’s own. The Quint neither endorses nor is responsible for them.)
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