Conversations with Gifted Minds
Sanaullah Mir is Kashmir’s Mulla Nasruddin One hour talk with a gifted mind is worth scores of books. And there are such gifted minds amidst us. I immediately recall two such minds – I call them Super Mirs or Meers of Mirs – Prof. Sanaullah Mir (Parvaaz Sahib) who teaches philosophy at AMU and Prof Shabir Ahmed Mir, awardee of “scientist of the year” at international level, a self taught mathematician and one of the most brilliant pharmacologists of India, who has retired last year as professor of veterinary pharmacology. Today we converse with the first Mir. Brilliant people have their own idiosyncrasies. Perhaps these are the cost of devotion to thinking. Sanuallah Mir, generally speaking, doesn’t pick up phone. I doubt if he would be tempted to take up even President’s call. He has no important document like service book copy or certificates with him. His colleagues have been great friends and they take care of his documents and may other matters he is...