Goodbye Khalid Hasan Sunday
More than a week has passed since the tragic death of the brilliant journalist and commentator Khalid Hasan. I feel the loss personally as reading Khalid Hasan’s Postcard USA column in the Daily Times was a regular Sunday treat of mine.
Every Sunday I would religiously follow a rigid routine that involved reading numerous blogs and newspapers in order saving the best column till last namely Khalid Hasan’s Postcard USA column in the Daily Times. It was Khalid Hasan’s incomparable wit and incisiveness that I liked the most and though I know that all good things come to an end, I cannot help but mourn his loss.
Khalid Hasan’s was clearly a one-off but I leave the glowing tributes as to his stellar work in the fields of literature and journalism to far more eminent commentators than I who have written at length of his magic. As a fellow Kashmiri I also mourn his loss for he was a passionate Kashmiri who was the voice for Kashmir and I cannot do better than echo the words of Khalid Hasan’s son that ‘the people of Kashmir have lost a great son and advocate’
Goodbye Khalid Hasan Sunday.
- WRITTEN UNDER MARTIAL LAW (My thanks to cowards Tariq Pervez. Sabihuddin, Sardar Raza & Co for selling out)
