C.M. Naim’s, A Professor Emiretus had shared this some months ago:
“What an extraordinary man he was. Iftikhar Alam Sahib has been publishing books about him — about his little known aspects, the kind of things that our buqrat in Urdu departments never think to write about and our social scientists have never bothered to discover.
The concern with minute details, the scientific attitude of inquiry and understanding, with due regard to contexts — amazing.”
