![]() An indomitable emptiness fills the author‟s mind.“So brief a friendship” results in “so vast a void”.Both Shahid and Shahid -“witness and martyr”- mingled and melted into eternity. Shahid leaves this world December 8, 2001. ![]() Finally, he agrees and expresses his mind that he will definitely write about him. He searches the words in which one promises a friend that one will write about him after his death. He could think of nothing to say for a while. The unusual request shocks and pains Amitav. ![]() When he could see nothing, his words appeared to be a moving epitaph, “I hope this doesn‟t mean that I‟m dying…” And a few words later, his wish moved his friend too, “When it happens I hope you‟ll write something about me.”AghaShahid Ali, an expatriate from Kashmir asks Amitav Gosh to write something about him and his poetry when he dies. ![]() Shahid was suffering from a malignant brain tumor at the beginning of the story. The Ghat of the only world is a friend‟s tribute to a friend almost in the manner of the Romantic Essayists in which the writer AmitavGhosh recollects all the memories of his beloved friend namely Aga Shahid Ali.
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