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Humayun
Azad
A
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Life
While
lamenting his death, one of Humayun Azad's illustrious
classmates wrote, "His death is a reminder of the
tragedy of the Greek god Icarus." On a poetic plateau,
this may be one way of expressing Humayun Azad's rise
to fame and his sudden demise. However, we do not live
in myths or epics, let alone be affected by their magic
or overwhelming sense of fatality. As humans we tread
on the treacherous ground of reality, where our own sets
of interests and aspirations are constantly being challenged
by those of others'. Writer, poet, academic Dr Humayun
Azad had to deal with real enmity in all its sinister
implications. Although, Azad was a poet himself, for him,
there was no room for poetic gesture to characterise his
own plight that befell him since the machete attack on
February 27, 2004. |
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