#HashtagNil.

The only significant direct interaction I remember with him was during his lecture at the Department of Economics. He had nothing against Kashmiri Muslims in a lecture that lasted over 2 hours, and I was watching at him, awestruck, that how could this be for a person whose whole community was cleansed from their nativity, and he didn't even once talk anything against the people directly responsible for it and instead talked of the larger perspective, his cherished friendships with them; even then. But his well-drawn conclusions were so backed by facts and logics that the audience could hardly differ on them, whatsoever their ideology be. I had always heard a lot about him from my seniors. But even after listening to two of his elaborate lectures on Kashmir, I wondered where according to him the solution lied, because he was a person so objective in his expression that one remained mesmerized in his explanations of Shaivism and Reshi culture of Kashmir, and forgot to ask him about t...