The ministries, courts, and city halls of today stand like fortresses, detached from the lives they are meant to serve.

Since the 1960s, Prof Abdur Razzaq wielded considerable influence on the academic and literati circle of his time,.

Here was a river that was larger than life, larger than anything I had encountered before. Flowing gloriously and indifferently, the river presented a mythic scale against which I felt terribly puny.