ghat is a hindi word which means a place at a river bank from which the boats leave with passengers to the other side. Ghat is used as a metaphor for death and the only world symbolises man's life on...
shahid asked amitav to write about him after his death.as amitav remembers most about him is the night when shahid read his farewell to the world "i dream i am at the ghat of the only world" he gave...
This is as Shahid is going to die . After his death, he can only go to heaven . Here when the author says ghat, he is actually talking about heaven . Heaven is the only place where people like Shahid...
GHAT OF THE ONLY WORLD (FULL STORY)The first time that Agha Shahid Ali first spoke to me about his approaching death was on April 25, 2001. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to...