Question

The lesson "The Ghat of the only world" deals with the topic of disease and death as the protagonist Shahid suffers from cancer and his approaching death. What values do you learn from the chapter about dealing with disease and death?​

Answer 1

Writer Amitav Ghosh and poet Shahid Ali were friends for a little while.

Shahid was dying with blood cancer and their friendship bloomed when one of them was dying.

One day Shahid asked Amitav to write about him, his poetry and about his Kashmir after his death.

It was an unusual request and quite confused pained, Amitav agreed.

Shahid died, better say, his soul left his body at 2 A.M. on December 8.

An unbridgeable emptiness filled the author’s mind.

“So brief a friendship” resulted in “so vast a void”.

Both Sháhid and Shahid – “witness and martyr” – mingled and melted into eternity.

The author kept his promise. He wrote this article on Shahid Ali – “Ghat of the Only World.”

Answer 2

The lesson "The Ghat of the only world" deals with the topic of disease and death; Shahid, the protagonist was suffering from malignant brain tumor. Even after treatment, the doctors could not heal him. He died finally causing a vacuum in the life of his family and friends.  

From the chapter we learn that death is the ultimate reality that will come to all; it can come any time. We must prepare ourselves for this journey to the unknown. We should meditate and do yogic kriyas to know and solve the mysteries surrounding death.